Big Game Hunting(Page 2)

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A Massachusets hunter with a big buck.
Hunting

Middle-School Teacher Tags the Biggest Typical Buck Killed in Massachusetts in a Decade

By Bob McNally

A group of bull elk stand in the snow.
Conservation

Conservation Groups, Hunters Fight Off Bill That Would Have Let Wyoming Landowners Sell Their Big-Game Tags for a Profit

By Kris Millgate

An illustration of a man in a fur lined hood and a growling husky
Adventure

My Best Sled Dog Tangled with Polar Bears, Hunted Birds, and Saved My Life More Times Than I Can Count

By Frank Dufresne

A mule deer buck in Wyoming.
Conservation

Hunting Big Bucks Year After Year Helps Curb Chronic Wasting Disease, Study Shows

By Natalie Krebs

Two whitetail bucks.
Hunting

6 Buck Harvest Trends That Deer Hunters Should Know

By Josh Honeycutt

An illustration of a hunter about to shoot a bull moose.
Hunting

We Were Charged by a Bull on Our Late-Season Moose Hunt

By Russell Annabel

A mule deer buck in snowy woods.
Hunting

Wyoming Lawmakers Want to Quadruple Hunting License Application Fees

By Dac Collins

A bull elk bugles on the side of a hill behind two cows.
Conservation

Colorado Is Switching Its Big-Game Draw. Here’s Why Hunters with Preference Points Are Short-Changed

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of Jim Carmichel and an Iranian game warden.
Hunting

Carmichel in the Middle East: Risking Our Lives to Hunt Iranian Ibex

By Jim Carmichel

A lone mule deer buck stands on a snowy ridge.
Hunting

Why Mule Deer Are North America’s Greatest Big-Game Animal

By Kubie Brown

Four deer lit up with a thermal on a prairie.
Conservation

Survey: Idaho Big-Game Hunters Would Ban Drones and Thermals, But Keep Most Other Tech

By Andrew McKean

A nice Ohio buck with a unicorn antler.
Hunting

‘I Hadn’t Shot a Deer All Year.’ Hunter Tags Unicorn Buck in the Final Days of Muzzleloader Season

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter with a giant Rocky Mountain bull elk.
Hunting

Bowhunter with 86 Bulls to His Credit Tags a Pending World-Record Elk

By Dac Collins

A hunter with a big Kansas whitetail buck.
Hunting

Army Vet Gets His First Whitetail Buck on Last Day of the Season, and It’s a 19-Point Giant

By Bob McNally

deer hunting
Hunting

16 Deer Hunting Mistakes You Won’t Make Again Next Season

By Josh Honeycutt

A 16-year-old holds up moose antlers against a blue sky in a vintage photo
Hunting

Instead of Staying Home for the Holidays, My Daughter Wanted to Go Moose Hunting

By Bob Cary

A collage of big bucks from 2024.
Hunting

The Biggest Bucks of 2024

By Dac Collins

A Kansas rifle hunter with a big elusive buck.
Hunting

Kansas Soldier Ditches His Tree Stand and Tags Elusive ‘Ghost’ Buck from the Ground

By Bob McNally

whitetail does in snow
Conservation

Chronic Wasting Disease Still Confounds Researchers. But Some Important New Clues Have Emerged

By Christine Peterson

A photo of CJ Alexander with huge Ohio deer with text overlaid.
Hunting

Podcast: What We Should Learn from the Craziest Poaching Case of the Year

By Alex Robinson

A hunter with a tall-tined illinois buck.
Hunting

Illinois Hunter Shoots 184-Inch Buck While Sitting in a Lawn Chair

By Bob McNally

A hunter kneels beside a nice buck
Hunting

Indiana Bowhunter Used a Spreadsheet to Help Kill This 184-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

An older whitetail buck, bedded
Hunting

9 Ways Old Bucks Behave Differently Than Younger Deer

By Josh Honeycutt

A trail camera photo of a giant deer.
Hunting

Rookie Crossbow Hunter’s First Buck Is a 200-Class Nontypical Monster

By Bob McNally

Fred bear stone sheep
Hunting

Fred Bear Took His World-Record Stone Sheep with the ‘Best Shot I’ll Ever Make’

By Fred Bear, as told to Byron W. Dalrymple

pennsylvania buck
Hunting

Podcast: What We Get Wrong About Whitetails, with Jeff Sturgis

By Alex Robinson

A big 10-point buck in the back of a UTV.
Hunting

Kansas Farmer Tags What Could Be One of the Top 5 Archery Bucks Ever Taken in the State

By Bob McNally

A hunter in a wide-brimmed hat kneeling behind a gray desert bighorn.
Hunting

Carmichel in Arizona: How to Hunt an Inaccessible Desert Bighorn

By Jim Carmichel

Freel and Miller Drag a Buck
Hunting

Hunter Amnesia: What It Is, and How You Can Avoid It

By Tyler Freel

Ashley Matchett and Chris Janeski
Hunting

On Her First Successful Deer Hunt with Her Husband, Hunter Shoots a Super Wide Pennsylvania Buck

By Bob McNally

A man holds up the rack of a large 14 point whitetail buck as the sun sets behind him.
Hunting

Tyler Jordan Tags a 200-Class Louisiana Buck That Could Be the New State Record

By Alice Jones Webb

An Oklahoma bowhunter with a 17-point buck.
Hunting

An Oklahoma Bowhunter Heard Rumors That the 180-Class Buck He’d Been Hunting for Years Had Been Hit by a Car. They Weren’t True

By Bob McNally

Two whitetail shoulder mounts hang on a white wall.
Hunting

A Son Finally Tracked Down His Dad’s Long-Lost Buck. It’s the Biggest Typical Whitetail Ever Killed in Kansas

By Alice Jones Webb

Boone and Crockett Club have declared javelina as a new trophy big game species.
Hunting

Boone and Crockett Accepts Javelina as the Continent’s Newest Trophy Species, the First Addition in Nearly 25 Years

By Andrew McKean

A bowhunter in the woods with a nice buck.
Hunting

Bowhunter Tries a Closer Setup, Draws on a Huge Buck While Surrounded by Does

By Bob McNally

an illustration of two hunters and a deer
Hunting

The Biggest Mishaps of My Deer-Hunting Career, by Jim Zumbo

By Jim Zumbo

Learning how to skin a deer is relatively easy, all you need is a sharp knife.
Hunting

How to Skin a Deer, Step by Step

By Natalie Krebs

A hunter with a big Pennsylvania buck.
Hunting

Pennsylvania Hunter Tags a 170-Class Public-Land Buck on a Family Deer Drive

By Bob McNally

late season whitetail
Hunting

Tips for Patterning and Hunting a Late-Season Buck

By Josh Honeycutt

A bowhunter with a big Indiana buck.
Hunting

Bowhunter Tags the Biggest Buck of Her Life in Indiana While Hunting a New Spot

By Bob McNally

An Ohio hunter with a buck he tagged during the rifle opener.
Hunting

Ohio Rifle Hunter Makes His Second Shot Count, Tags a 22-Pointer on Opening Day

By Bob McNally

A college freshman with his first bow buck.
Hunting

College Student’s First Bow Buck Is a 17-Point Kansas Slammer

By Bob McNally

A hunter with a rare-looking buck.
Hunting

Teen Tags ‘Unicorn’ Buck on His Second-Ever Solo Hunt

By Bob McNally

A trail cam photo of a buck in Kansas.
Hunting

Kansas Bowhunter Arrows 200-Class Buck That Was a Local Legend

By Bob McNally

A hunter with a buck loaded into a truck bed.
Hunting

After 200 Hours of Bowhunting, Wisconsin Hunter Finally Sees His Target Buck on Opening Day of Gun Season

By Bob McNally

A hunter holds up a buck with stickers on its rack.
Hunting

Hunter Tags Two Back-to-Back Bucks from the Ground in North Carolina

By Bob McNally

Two hunters field dress a deer.
Hunting

How to Field Dress a Deer, Step by Step

By Natalie Krebs

A hunter calls in a blacktail buck.
Hunting

3 Totally Normal Deer Hunting Tactics We Used to Think Were Bogus

By Natalie Krebs

Two hunters sit and pose in the bed of a truck next to a mule deer.
Hunting

An Old-School Western Mule Deer Hunt, in Memory of Two Midwestern Dads

By Andrew McKean

colorado whitetail
Hunting

Podcast: Real Talk About Deer Cartridges and Bullets

By Alex Robinson

The governor of Virginia accepts a deer.
Hunting

Tribes Uphold Centuries-Old Treaty by Delivering Dead Deer to Virginia Governor

By Andrew Sharp

A teen hunter with a big Ohio buck.
Hunting

Teen Tags Buck with 5 Drop Tines She and Her Sister Had Watched for Weeks

By Bob McNally

Three fancy Savage 99s
Guns

Jim Carmichel’s Classic Deer Rifles

By Jim Carmichel

A bowhunter with a 16-point buck.
Hunting

Wisconsin Bowhunter Bleats in 16-Pointer and Kills It with a 20-Year-Old Bow

By Bob McNally

Mark Drury with a giant whitetail buck.
Hunting

13 Advanced Deer Hunting Tactics from the Experts

By Josh Honeycutt

A bowhunter with a big buck in Illinois.
Hunting

Illinois Bowhunter Was ‘In the Right Place at the Right Time’ to Tag 185-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

A turkey hunter with a goofy expression aims at a longbeard.
Hunting

The Worst Shots I’ve Ever Made

By Charles Elliott

A buck runs away. Paying attent
Hunting

How to Blood Trail a Deer

By Natalie Krebs

A Florida hunter and his buck.
Hunting

Florida Hunter Tags 187-Inch Buck While Watching the Gators Game

By Bob McNally

A woman stands behind a moose.
Hunting

When My Dad Was Diagnosed with Cancer, I Fulfilled a Dream Moose Hunt for Him

By Ali Juten

whitetail buck bed
Hunting

Should You Hunt a Buck’s Bedding Area During the Rut? 

By Josh Honeycutt

A photograph of a glossy wood-stocked deer rifle.
Guns

Jim Carmichel’s Favorite Deer Rifles

By Jim Carmichel

Hunter with very large deer
Hunting

Podcast: The Case for Ditching Your Treestand and Hunting from the Ground

By Alex Robinson

A buck on a tailgate.
Hunting

Veteran Arrows Giant Ohio Buck from the Ground After Getting to His Stand Late

By Bob McNally