Wisconsin hunter Steven Loomans shot a Top 10 Boone and Crockett buck during the state's extended gun season in Dane County.

The Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club is the official state record-keeper for big-game hunting. It keeps the trophy records for whitetail deer, black bears, elk and gray wolves – each in several categories.

If you’ve yet to tag your first truly big whitetail buck, or if you lucked into one and can’t repeat the feat, the idea of tagging a trophy deer year after year can seem impossible—and the hunters who ...

Seth Sorrell had been watching the buck he'd nicknamed "Possum" for four years. He tagged the buck during rifle season in ...

The big whitetail moved steadily, head lowered, nosing a course through a lunarlike landscape of earth mounds, dark puddles and hair-thick brush. Strip mining had turned the area raw and made hunting ...

Most deer hunters dream about one day tagging a drop tine deer—one of those bucks with a point (or several points) dropping down from the main beam. That’s why we’re sharing these photos and stories ...

The trail camera may be the most impactful innovation for whitetail hunters in my lifetime. Particularly, the cellular trail camera. Real-time intel about a big buck’s secret movements has, on more ...

I’ve always been a big woods whitetail hunter. I grew up in New England, where deer hunting meant tracking, still hunting, and roving through endless miles of mixed hardwoods and thick pine forests ...

One thing our area abounds in is large tracts of forested land. However, clear cuts, gated roads and tree stands have limited ...

Just when Forrest Hodges thought his deer season couldn’t get any better, it did. On September 28 — opening day of the current statewide Managed Lands Deer and Archery Only whitetail seasons — the ...

There’s a pattern emerging in the world of trophy whitetail hunting. It’s how two of the greatest bucks of all time were taken last season, and it’s how the world record may be shattered this fall.