Some folks take shed hunting more seriously than actual hunting. Scroll through the following photos and you’ll begin to see why. And while most shed hunters will never pick up a set of record-class ...

Some of the biggest whitetail bucks ever to walk this earth were never fooled by a hunter, nor found dead by anyone. More than one had the headgear to become B&C and P&Y world records, but none is ...

While someone who doesn’t know anything about animals might confuse them, reindeer and deer are two different animals. Though ...

"Bucks dropping their antlers already." It’s becoming a common refrain in the late-season deer camp. And it’s true. Each year whitetail antler “drops” or “sheds” are picked up during deer season. And ...

Antlers on deer grow new each year and there are a variety of reasons why they may have a unique shape, drop tine or hole. “Antlers are pretty awesome,” Jeannine Fleegle, wildlife biologist for the ...

Did that big buck make it? That’s what many wildlife watchers and deer hunters want to know as winter ends. Did the buck they were watching make it through the season? Finding an antler can answer ...

Everyone who’s familiar with the two most popular deer species in the U.S. has their own method of telling a mule deer from a whitetail deer. If you happen to live in an area where the two species’ ...

Antler size is an indicator of a buck's health, nutrition, and age, not necessarily dominance. Injuries to a deer can result in abnormally shaped antlers, such as drop tines or even a third antler.