With the year coming to an end, we look back on some of the biggest bucks and the best deer hunting stories from 2025.

Defining “fame” when it comes to big whitetails can be difficult. Size is important, of course. So much so, in fact, that I’d be hard pressed to think of a truly famous whitetail that isn’t also huge.

Hunting stories about big deer are woven deeply into the fabric of Outdoor Life, and we look forward to hearing and sharing these stories each fall. These tales come from all over North America, and ...

Indiana’s biggest buck scored 303 7/8 inches. Learn how the legendary Beck buck compares to other record whitetails.

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in ...

There are plenty of world records that would be relatively easy to beat. Guinness will certify you a global champ if you can eat more than 25 marshmallows in a minute, assemble a Mr. Potato Head ...

Many deer hunters wait all year for the peak of the apparent whitetail rut, this year to occur in early November 2025. But late October, leading up to the high point of daytime action, as opposed to ...

After years of online detective work by a 23-year-old Kansas bowhunter, the Sunflower State appears to have a new record typical whitetail buck for the first time in 50 years. But the story behind 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.

It was cold, foggy, and icy in north-central Kansas on Dec. 15, and Josh Keltner had been looking forward to getting out with his family on the final day of the state’s gun deer season. A retired U.S.

Old timers will tell you that you do not need a backpack full of gadgets to kill a smart... The post The whitetail trick old ...

The regular 2025-2026 deer season will end on January 19, with the closing of the flintlock season. Those hunters that have been unsuccessful will no doubt be thinking about the big buck that got away ...