Along with buck rubs on trees and saplings, the time of the ubiquitous and mysterious scrape, a bare patch of ground on the forest floor, is here. Some of us have spent countless hours perched in ...

Along with buck rubs, the ubiquitous and mysterious woodland scrape signals to hunters that a whitetail buck has recently passed by. But that pawed up patch of woodland dirt means a lot more to deer.

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on whom ...

For context, Mitch Stamm’s buck has an inside spread that’s only about an inch less than the world-record Milo Hanson rack.

Off and on for over 50 years, I have been killing bucks over scrapes. But, beyond the hunting season, my obsession, fascination, and determination to plumb the mystery and meaning has not waned. Trail ...

If scrapes were visited only by the whitetail buck that originally made them, they would be poor places to hunt. When you consider that at least 75 percent of all visits to scrapes happen at night, ...

Buck season is finally here. No … not the slowly approaching hunting seasons. We’ll have to wait a bit for that. But here during the dog days of summer, with July finally in the rear view mirror, we ...

A bowhunter in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, had been hunting this unusually heavy buck for years. Here's how it all came ...

Forget about tracks or droppings. The leaf cover today is so new, so deep that any evidence of deer activity on the ground was out of the question. So why am I out on this cold, clear morning, looking ...