“What deer is that?” said Keith Chaffin, outfitter on the Junco Ranch in South Texas—the same ranch where Lyndon Johnson used to chase whitetails. He adjusted the spotting scope for a closer look. “He ...

Hunting stories about big deer are woven deeply into the fabric of Outdoor Life, and we look forward to hearing and sharing these stories each fall. These tales come from all over North America, and ...

This story, “Ghost Buck,” appeared in the November 1991 issue of Outdoor Life. The Bruce Jameson buck ultimately scored 248 1/8 inches after deductions, according to Boone and Crockett. Although it ...

College senior Micah Belt spent an extra day visiting his family in the town of McAlester, Oklahoma. That’s because his dad, Lloyd, had convinced him to try for a massive whitetail buck he’d recently ...

A monster 14-point buck killed in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, early this month could be the new state-record typical whitetail. Although the rack would need to be officially scored after a drying ...

The Eagle has compiled a list of the Top 10 typical whitetail bucks ever killed in Kansas. The list includes the Top 2 typical deer killed in the U.S. since 2007. Deer racks are considered typical or ...

Just when Forrest Hodges thought his deer season couldn’t get any better, it did. On Sept. 28 — opening day of the current statewide Managed Lands Deer and Archery Only whitetail seasons — the 37-year ...

The Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club is the official state record-keeper for big-game hunting. It keeps the trophy records for whitetail deer, black bears, elk and gray wolves – each in several categories.

Those big, old whitetail bucks are truly amazing. For so much of the year, they're like ghosts of the woods. You simply don't see them. Or, if you do, it's just a ...

The big whitetail moved steadily, head lowered, nosing a course through a lunarlike landscape of earth mounds, dark puddles and hair-thick brush. Strip mining had turned the area raw and made hunting ...