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

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

First Day Coues

First Day Coues by Conrad Sheley My hunt began in January 2016. I love chasing Coues deer during the rut and I’ve taken three Pope and Young bucks doing just that. This year was different; I wasn’t hunting alone, my wife, son, and father decided that they also wanted to archery hunt the January rut.... Read More

On Our Own on the Arizona Strip

On Our Own on the Arizona Strip by Armando J. Ruiz I couldn’t believe it happened. We had applied for the coveted Arizona Strip, and we drew tags. I was beyond disbelief; yet, I was excited beyond words for the opportunity to chase giant mule deer bucks in one of the best units in North... 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

Ramcat Broadheads – Review

Ramcat Broadheads by Thomas Grill In 2013, I dealt with the nightmare that no hunter ever wants to experience. I was unable to recover my animal. I placed what appeared to be a perfect double lung shot on a doe at about 30 yards. I wasn’t being picky, she gave me the perfect opportunity to... Read More

Early Season Whitetails

Early Season Whitetails by Scott Haugen, Editor Whether scouting or hunting, late summer is one of the best months to locate a Western whitetail buck. Here’s what to look for in your pre-season scouting missions, and early season hunts! A wild flush at my feet, and instinctively the shotgun was shouldered. I have no idea... Read More

Find Your Focus for a Successful Harvest

Focal Points

Focal Points by Patrick Meitin Concentrate on these hotspots for the best early-season action. Early archery seasons are a great time to tag a trophy whitetail in most western habitats, as well as a rare opportunity to collect a velvet-antlered buck. Some bowhunters stalk their whitetail during these waning days of summer, setting up ambushes... Read More

Coues Super Sets

Coues Super Sets by Darren Choate, Editor In Chief The difference between success and failure during early-season archery hunts is as simple as having the right set; however, finding the right set is not as simple. Early one morning, a few summers ago, I was out scouring the woods for a new Coues set. Some... Read More

Summertime Deer Scouting

Summertime Scouting by Mark Kayser Summertime Deer Scouting – I couldn’t have been more surprised at the bachelor group of whitetails before me. They were living in a grassland oasis that pronghorn and mule deer would have been more at home in than riparian-loving whitetails. It was summertime, and in addition to scouting for whitetails,... Read More

Western Whitetail TV

Western Whitetail TV – S1E2 The One Western Whitetail TV [embedplusvideo height=”343″ width=”560″ standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/qB8ZbIjDPtI?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=qB8ZbIjDPtI&width=560&height=343&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep1165″ /] Western Whitetail TV, Season 1, Episode 2, The One. Welcome to season 1, episode 2. This month WWTV is chasing big whitetails in Washington and Coues deer in Arizona. First, Pro Staffers, Daniel and Virginia Hawthorne give us an update... Read More

Western Whitetail Magazine, Fall 2012

Western Whitetail Magazine – Fall 2012 The Fall Issue is Here Western Whitetail Magazine, Fall 2012 – The fall issue of Western Whitetail Magazine is out with a wealth of information regarding hunting whitetails in the West. In the cover story, Editor, Darren Choate, expands on Geoff Lloyd’s hunt for a 122-inch Coues buck (as seen... Read More

High Country Coues

High Country Coues by Darren Choate Archery hunting velvet Coues bucks in the high country is quite the challenge! A few years back, I was perched in a large ponderosa pine, overlooking a hub of well-used game trails that I knew Coues deer frequented. It was opening morning of the Arizona archery deer hunt, and... 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