Buck rubs here in Western New York and Northern Pa. are beginning to pop in earnest throughout forests, field edges, and even roadsides. And like popcorn, at first their appearance is slow, but as ...

Most buck rubs go cold once the rut gets into full swing. But there's one type of rub that can help you tag a peak-rut trophy ...

This picture shows a small willow tree that a whitetail buck deer has used to rub his antlers. During late summer and early autumn male deer push their antlers against, up and down the trunks of tree ...

Firearm deer season is less than two weeks away. You need to be out doing some of your most serious scouting right now. And if you see a buck rub, you should pay attention to it and really interpret ...

Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

I have always considered rubs, those white scars on the forest’s saplings, a mystery in the world of the whitetail buck. At least in my mind, we call sign made by deer "ground scrapes," including the ...

Forget about tracks or droppings. The leaf cover today is so new, so deep that any evidence of deer activity on the ground was out of the question. So why am I out on this cold, clear morning, looking ...

Brainerd, Minn. - It was nearly 3:30 p.m. when I decided to bow hunt from my favorite deer stand. The date was Nov. 12, 2012, one day after the close of Minnesota's Zone 2 firearms deer season. I ...

Pre-dawn on Saturday, Nov. 9, roughly a half million Minnesota deer hunters will don blaze orange and head to woods and fields in hopes a whitetail will waltz into shooting range. Although most deer ...