The fateful hunt for what became the Boone & Crockett world-record typical whitetail — the Milo Hanson Buck — began shortly after dawn on Nov. 23, 1993, near Biggar, Saskatchewan. Milo Hanson’s hunting partners, Walter Meger and Rene Igini, spotted the massive buck with two does near a willow patch. Soon after, Hanson and John […]
Let this story be the reason why age doesn’t mean squat when it comes to a buck’s headgear.
At least one Midwest state is home to some mighty fine white-tailed bucks, but it is also home to guys and gals who simply love venison no matter what form it takes. This is evidenced by the state’s overall harvest totals as of today, Dec. 31. So far, nearly 9% of Iowa’s 2025 deer harvest […]
Brutally cold weather is affecting whitetails and how soon bucks are shedding their antlers.
In an open letter to state residents, Missouri’s director of conservation expressed his utmost desire to protect the state’s whitetail resource from CWD, but we cannot help but take him to task for several erroneous statements made in the nearly 1,000-word press release.
You’ve probably eaten plenty of venison in your life, but did you know the word is not rooted specifically to deer meat?
Look at the G-2 and G-3 points on all three of these enormous whitetail racks. Which ones have a “common base” in your opinion?
Do you see all 10? Any guess on the year? And are you old enough to remember what they meant do deer hunters from those days?
This shed antler, found in Wisconsin, features a hardened bulb at the end of the main beam. But what causes this? Find out in this blog.
No doubt about it, antler shed hunting is nature’s Easter egg hunt. When the snow leaves the landscape, it pushes eager hunters and whitetail fanatics out to the woods in search of the bony crowns that eluded them last fall. We all know that whitetail shed their antlers every year, but did you know that […]