Always keep a ratchet strap in your pack and/or a few in your vehicle in case you need to quickly improve one of your favorite stand sets. I do a fair amount of public-land bowhunting with ...

There's a reason so many hunters look forward to the peak of the rut -- bucks get stupid and forget some of their safety habits in favor of chasing does. They are more likely to fall victim to ...

The philosophy of Buckmasters’ Full-Credit Scoring System is to measure and record white-tailed deer antlers without forcing them to conform to a criterion of perfect symmetry. This Full-Credit ...

For Additional Information: Call Buckmasters Customer Service at 1-800-240-3337 Buckmasters Expo: August 15-17, 2025 You can cancel Buckmasters subscriptions at any time. Any cancellations made will ...

Four-wheeler, treestands, camouflage, scents and rifles are all really important tools to help us harvest bucks. However, one of the most important deer management tools is often ignored, downplayed ...

Got a gun that kicks too hard or just doesn’t feel right? Here are the common problems ... and solutions. Most hunters have a notion of how much a rifle should weigh, but think that balance and stock ...

All those columns, numbers and abbreviations become clear as you explore. The majority of hunters are not ballistics experts. Nor do they have to be. Some of the most successful hunters know nothing ...

Do you remember the nursery rhyme "Jack and the Beanstalk?" I haven't read the story in about 50 years, but the best I can do dredging up details from memory, it went like this. (Please remember that ...

Buckmasters Editor in Chief Russell Thornberry is the best source for tracking and trailing wounded bucks I can think of. I’ve learned more hard-core whitetail lore from him over the years than from ...

Perhaps no part of a riflescope’s specifications is less understood than eye relief. Many hunters don’t have a clue what their pet scope’s eye relief is, nor do they care. As long as they can bring Ol ...

Which is right for you depends on how you use it. As more people try to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels, electric and hybrid automobiles are becoming available and more popular. The same is ...

The Buckmasters scoring system is based on the method of evaluating white-tailed deer antlers developed by Russell Thornberry, who recognized that other scoring systems' symmetry-based formulas often ...