Don’t get it twisted: The classic big-buck destinations are still great. Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois still produce giants every year. Texas deer hunters still kill more whitetails than anyone else. And ...

Tyson Ramer shows off the pair of trophies he tagged with one shot from his muzzleloader. On Nov. 4, Tyson Raymer went deer hunting with his girlfriend on his family’s farm near Disley, Saskatchewan.

The big whitetail moved steadily, head lowered, nosing a course through a lunarlike landscape of earth mounds, dark puddles ...