Most deer hunters will never encounter a true albino whitetail. The recessive gene that ... when he got his first glimpse of an elusive all-white buck in northern Kentucky. Then, late last month ...
We look at six trends based on the harvest data included in the National Deer Association's most recent annual Deer Report.
Ending the spread of CWD appears unlikely because the prions, which cluster in the brain and nervous system, can be ...
A retired U.S. Army veteran, Keltner was still new to hunting the Sunflower State and he had never tagged a whitetail before ... But then I saw another deer with big antlers behind her in some bushes.
The senses of smell and taste enable deer to detect differences in palatability of forage. Smell is also what attracts white-tailed bucks to does in heat. Albino deer are white and as rare as gold. If ...
Piebald deer stand out due to their white coat, the result of an inherited genetic trait that can also cause physical deformities.
What causes the various mutations like albinism in whitetail coats? Just about every hunting season, I get a call from a hunter who has harvested an all-white (albino ... mount of the buck. One week ...
This was a buck, and a good one ... are believed to exist in less than 2% of a whitetail population and are sometimes confused with albino deer, which are rarer still and are entirely white ...
Some years ago, we took a poll of F&S’s most dedicated deer-hunting readers, asking them to give their picks for the very best whitetail buck bedding areas. Here are their top seven spots ...
Breaking down the whitetail buck harvest by age class shows an even more impressive stat for deer hunters in the U.S. “The antlered buck (those 1 1⁄2 years or older) harvest is over three ...