West Texas Deer Hunts: Affordable, Awesome, Thrilling

West Texas Deer: No tags to draw, reasonable cost, 100 percent success on free-range whitetails; what’s not to love? One frustrating thing about hunting the West has been my inability to consistently draw tags. So, I am always on the lookout for relatively inexpensive options that allow me to hunt annually. Enter Texas, this year,... Read More

Mr. Curly: 178-inch Texas Whitetail

Mr. Curly: 178-inch Texas Whitetail | Ryan Burrus Mr. Curly: 178-inch Texas Whitetail by Ryan Burrus Take a step back in time to 2010. It was August in Texas and it was HOT! My cameras had been out for a month trying to help me compile my hit list for the season. We had great... Read More

Danner High Ground – 8″ Optifade Subalpine

Danner High Ground – 8″ Optifade Subalpine Danner High Ground – 8″ Optifade Subalpine The Danner High Ground is the perfect early season whitetail boot, whether you are ground-stalking Coues whitetail or stand-hunting Midwest whitetail. Its athletic shape and build combined with its Danner Gavre Outsole make it a great hiking boot on and off trail. To... Read More

Sitka Early Season Whitetail Pant

Sitka Early Season Whitetail Pant Sitka Early Season Whitetail Pant A technical hunting pant ready to go to work in the whitetail woods. The durable four-way stretch polyester stands up to the brush but offers great breathability and stretch to make getting in and out of the stand a breeze while body-mapped mesh ventilation in... Read More

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Texas Deer Hunting: Outstanding Whitetail Hunting in Its Five Regions

Whitetail deer hunting in the Lonestar State is unlike hunting anywhere else, largely in part due to the sheer size. Texas covers 268,586 square miles. For reference, Delaware, the first state could fit into Texas 108 times while Rhode Island, the smallest state, could fit 221 times. Luckily Texas whitetails are one of the most... Read More

2017 Wildgame Innovations Trail-cameras

Wildgame Innovations: Trust What You See Wildgame Innovations’ all-new, high performance mirage series digital scouting cameras are real…and so are the giants they capture images of. Dallas, TX (January 12, 2017) – It’s a powerful confidence-builder when hunters learn of a true giant lurking on their hunting property. This kind of scouting intelligence isn’t easy... Read More

The Mathews Halon 6 and the Easton FMJ6 were the perfect combination for the author.

A Whitetail Plan

A Whitetail Plan “I love it when a well-laid out plan comes together!” by Darren Choate, Editor In Chief As I prepared for the 12-hour trip to Oklahoma facing me the next day, I happened to check my Facebook feed. Greg Allen, owner of Bend of the River Outfitters in western Oklahoma had just uploaded... Read More

My Best Buck

My Best Buck by Zane Graham This past hunting season I was able to harvest the best buck of my hunting career. The buck first appeared at the end of December of the 2014 season on trail camera. He was a symmetrical 10 point with good tine length and showed potential to be a stud if given one... Read More

Hunting Stabilizers

Hunting Stabilizers By Paeton Keller Front Bar There are multiple functions that a front stabilizer performs. First, and most obvious, is to add weight to the front of the bow. Many times, an archer may notice that when the bow is completely set up including a quiver full of arrows, that the bow feels as... Read More

My First Bow Buck

My First Bow Buck by Alexa Loa My dad, Thomas Loa, and I were hunting our lease–at the time–in Throckmorton, TX. It was already pretty close to the end of the rut, but we just happened to be sitting in the right spot that night. My dad has always been really good about stand location.... Read More

Deer Sense Breakdown

Deer Sense Breakdown by Thomas Grill It may be obvious that deer have very keen senses. But, let’s break this down anyway. The more you know, the greater your success will be in the field. The three primary senses that a whitetail deer will use in order to avoid becoming a slab of steak on... Read More

Texas Panhandle Bucks, the author's buck

Texas Whitetail Deer Hunting | Panhandle Bucks

Texas Whitetail Deer Hunting | Panhandle Bucks | Mark Kayser Texas Whitetail Deer Hunting | Panhandle Bucks Texas whitetail deer hunting…there’s nothing else like it! By Mark Kayser [perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Only one state holds the title for the birth of modern whitetail hunting: Texas.[/perfectpullquote] Only one state holds the title... Read More

Early Season Whitetail Strategies

Early Season Whitetail Strategies by Patrick Meitin In much of “whitetaildom,” October represents the launch of bowhunting festivities, “early season” from the perspective of the average eastern deer hunter. Early, within a western reference, means something else altogether, normally indicating the still-blazing months of a fledgling fall, beginning with the final days of August into... Read More

Welcome to Western Whitetail

Your Western Whitetail Source WesternWhitetail.com covers white-tailed deer hunting from Mexico to Canada and from the far Mid-west to the Pacific Northwest. Western Whitetail covers 14 western states, three countries, and several sub-species of whitetail deer including: Coues, Carmen Mountain, Columbian, Northwest, Texas, and Dakota. Enjoy, and check back for the latest news on Western... Read More