WITH HIS ANTLERS FLASHING in the sun­ light, the buck bounded out of the hemlocks. I pulled the longbow to full draw as the deer ran broadside to me, 35 yards away, but a brush pile between us blocked ...

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in Wisconsin. Steven Loomans of Madison shot the buck on the final day of the metro ...

I couldn't afford a guide or to scout before the season opened, but I had 1 million acres of public land on which to find my ...

For deer, the records as of Dec. 2, 2025, included typical deer numbering 2,582 shot in archery and 1,861 shot by a firearm, in addition to 27 pickup deer that can mean an entire deer rack from a ...

A Pennsylvania hunter who has been thankful for every deer he has harvested over the past 37 years, finally got a massive buck the neighbors called “Tiny,” that’s suitable to hang on a wall of his ...

This story, “The Rack Was No Phantom,” appeared in the May 1968 issue of Outdoor Life. WITH HIS ANTLERS FLASHING in the sun­ light, the buck bounded out of the hemlocks. I pulled the longbow to full ...

The story below is an updated version of a story that originally published in 2024. Pennsylvania buck have been growing older and bigger for most of the 21st century, allowing more hunters to join the ...