I’ve always been a big woods whitetail hunter. I grew up in New England, where deer hunting meant tracking, still hunting, and roving through endless miles of mixed hardwoods and thick pine forests ...

On that day two weekends ago, 13-year-old Lyndi Ishler of Petty Creek and 30-year-old Oby Schulz of Evaro each bagged magnificent trophy mule deer bucks. For Ishler, a seventh-grade student at ...

The 56,000 or so people who hunt mule deer east of the Cascades each year, whether they carry a rifle or a bow, could see a major change in the boundaries of many hunt areas in 2026. This fall’s hunts ...

In 2023, a hunter bid $725,000 on a mule deer tag at the Western Hunt Expo in Utah. The bid shattered a record set the night before when a hunter bid $500,000 on an Antelope Island mule deer tag at ...

Clark "Bart" Bartkowski's mule deer hunt of a lifetime happened this year after drawing one of the coveted mule deer permits for the East Fork of the Bitterroot. The decision nearly 20 years ago that ...

Hunting season started in August for some big game species but the heart of the annual event, the major rifle seasons for deer and elk, are still to come. The buck deer season for most units runs from ...

A warden with the deer. Photograph via the Three Affiliated Tribes Fish and Wildlife Department. Earlier this month, a large mule deer buck was killed by a yet-to-be-identified poacher and left on the ...

Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission will decide Sept. 12 whether to make major changes to the boundaries of some mule deer hunts in Eastern and Central Oregon starting in 2026, and to reduce the ...

Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission will decide whether to make major changes to the boundaries of some mule deer hunts in Eastern and Central Oregon starting in 2026, and to reduce the number of ...