Still-hunting whitetails demands a rifle that feels natural in your hands, moves quietly through the timber, and doesn’t weigh you down after a few miles of easing along ridgelines and creek bottoms.

The debate over the best rifles and cartridges for deer hunting has been raging for decades, but Jack O'Connor solved it in ...

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The author's Winchester Model 70 with a maple wood stock hanging from, fittingly, a maple tree. Let’s get this part out of the way first: I am not a Fudd. I own lots of rifles and shotguns with ...

The familiar deer hunting rifle contenders include the .243 Winchester, .270 Winchester, .308 Winchester, .30-06 Springfield, the 7mm Remington Magnum and a few others. Photo courtesy of Forrest ...

For most hunters pursuing white-tailed deer with a firearm in Wisconsin, the shot at their quarry isn't long, typically less than 100 yards. If the hunter waits for the best, most ethical shot, the ...

JARED SCHEFFLER’S ideal archery shot on a whitetail buck is either quartering to or facing head-on. He hunts exclusively from the ground. Scheffler shoots a longbow, and he uses heavy arrows that are ...