Along with buck rubs, the ubiquitous and mysterious woodland scrape signals to hunters that a whitetail buck has recently passed by. But that pawed up patch of woodland dirt means a lot more to deer.

Whitetail buck have begun to establish their territory in anticipation of the upcoming rut. Deer can communicate with their glands and scents when using scrapes. An active scrape is a where deer use ...

Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

Archery season for whitetails can be one of the most frustrating of all the upland shooting sports. Tough, lonely, uncomfortable ... bow hunting tests our physical and emotional stamina. And when the ...

The ability to spot rubs and scrapes is an acquired skill. They may be invisible to rookie hunters, but with a little bit of practice, spotting them becomes routine. Whitetails don’t have to work ...

Setting up a stand or blind in the right spot is easy to do this time of year. Just look for deer scrapes. A stand located along a trail that ties together several fresh deer scrapes is a great place ...

A Mississippi College analytical biochemist has been using game cameras to study how deer spread diseases and along the way he's refined his techniques to not only get more bucks on camera but reduce ...

Late summer and early fall are times when many deer hunters begin to venture into the woods. Some are scouting for the coming gun season, some are planting food plots and others are taking advantage ...

Most of the more than 400,000 whitetail hunters who will be afield this weekend on the Minnesota firearms deer opener hope to shoot a big buck. Few will. Everyone, however, can hunt successfully. Here ...

When I was a youngster growing up in Cherry Valley, several elder statesmen often took me deer hunting in the St. Francis River bottoms. There weren’t many deer in Cross County back then, so it was ...