For diehard deer hunters, November is the most wonderful time of the year. This month, thanks to the whitetail rut, brings some of the best hunting action known to man. Millions of hunters across the ...

I was in high school the first time I rattled up a buck. My buddy and I were sitting on the edge of a big clover field, watching a little 8-pointer chase two does at the other end. “I’m gonna rattle ...

I started to see the chasing phase of the rut starting in late October, so rattling will be a prime tactic to draw in a ...

Just seconds after the rising sun seemed to set the South Texas brush country ablaze with early morning light, Wes Reed clashed his set of rattling horns together with a clatter that shattered the ...

Furthermore, to these Texans they aren’t even antlers. They’re horns. But they’ll have them, and in the mesquite-and-cactus ...

It may look like a good way to stay warm on a cold day, a strange way to fight boredom or maybe it appears completely silly. But the fact is that hunters who clash deer antlers together — or one of ...

During my latest Weekly Mistake last week, yet last year, I reported at length, and rather poorly I must admit, that my old friend Randy Browning had met with great success rattling bucks during the ...

It's not often a hunter can identify the apex of a long deer hunting career at the exact moment it happens. For most, it would be the day they made a difficult long shot, guided their children or ...

Bucks are entering the rut, that time of year when they search for does to mate. Occasionally, bucks will clash as they compete over territory or a doe in estrus. And for some reason — maybe like boys ...