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.

“I think that rubs look like highway reflectors to deer,” DeRose-Broeckert told NDA. “That’s how I imagine it. When the rest ...

Annual visits to outdoors shows reveal scores of new products each year – a testament to the hunting industry’s penchant for innovation, however, some of these products are hot for only a little while ...