With the year coming to an end, we look back on some of the biggest bucks and the best deer hunting stories from 2025.

How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life, by Larry Benoit, was a seminal tome for a generation of deer hunters. Originally published in 1974, the book chronicled the hunting strategies and tactics of ...

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 ...

Master Maine Guide Randy Flannery runs Wilderness Escape Outfitters in Danforth, ME, where he leads clients on hunts for whatever is in season, from moose and bears to grouse and hares. But what ...

Pressured deer are not mythical ghosts that vanish at the first hint of boot tracks, but a lot of... The post The biggest ...

Indiana’s biggest buck scored 303 7/8 inches. Learn how the legendary Beck buck compares to other record whitetails.

After years of online detective work by a 23-year-old Kansas bowhunter, the Sunflower State appears to have a new record typical whitetail buck for the first time in 50 years. But the story behind the ...

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 ...

This story, “Tracking El Grande,” appeared in the February 2007 issue of Outdoor Life. In the pale dawn light, Valo Velazquez heads into a chill north wind blowing across Mexico’s Sonoran Desert. A ...