and that on average a whitetail buck will grow his largest set of antlers between 5 and 7 years of age,” says Matt Ross, assistant director of conservation for the Quality Deer Management Association.

Animals with antlers comprise the deer family, Cervidae. Learn all about the different members of that family here.

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 ... father’s deer rack from Antlers by Klaus ...

The man suffered puncture wounds from the deer's antlers ... when the buck he thought he’d shot to death returned to its feet, stabbing Alexander with its antlers before running away, according ...

I took a careful lead on the streaking buck and fired. The slug exploded a shower of frost low and behind the deer ... whitetail,” Dean wrote. “I’m an official scorer for the Boone and Crockett Club, ...

And this group of three bucks (all males, which is common except for during the fall rut, when females and males group together) looked like they were right in the midst of shedding their antlers. So ...

It was there, on a cold gray morning in late November 1971, the second day of the Ohio deer season, that I killed the best nontypical whitetail ... on which bucks had polished their antlers.

When a serial outlaw was nabbed with 52 deer racks, the case became the biggest, and most bizarre, in state history.