In the beginning, he's a nubbin buck. A cute little guy with a couple of bumps up top. If he avoids the wolves and survives the winter, he might well have a couple of spike antlers the next fall. But ...

For most of us, July is a month reserved for fishing, grilling, and maybe the beach. Not Minnesota whitetail expert Bob Borowiak, who starts scouting around July 4th and continues until the season ...

Early September here in the Northeast and Midwest signals the time when whitetail bucks begin the process of shedding what we call velvet, covering their antlers. The brownish, kind of hairy antlers ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Two 8-point whitetail bucks got a little holiday help. The Minnesota DNR got a call on Thursday about a buck standing in the grass with his head down. When DNR officer Jamie VanThuyne ...

This buck was rubbing its forehead on a “licking branch’’ on property owned by Bill Marchel, who lives near Brainerd. Licking branches, together with ground “scrapes’’ left below them by bucks, are a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many deer hunters wait all year for the peak of the apparent whitetail rut, this year to occur in early November 2025. But late ...

WABASHA — Cody Wiemann’s obsession began five or six years ago when he first saw two young bucks on trail cams in the Wabasha-Theilman area. The obsession grew as the bucks grew and one in particular ...

Minnesota’s North Woods are being sold to the state’s timber products industry, and deer and deer hunters will pay the price with lower populations and lower harvests for years to come. Ruffed grouse ...