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A hunter holds up a big Virginia buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Hunter Tags a Giant Buck Four Hours Away, Makes It Home Just in Time for Thanksgiving Dinner

By Bob McNally

A rifle hunter with a giant Maine buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Maine Fisherman Bleats in Giant Swamp Buck While Hunting on the Ground, ‘Just Like My Grandfather Did’

By Bob McNally

doe lies on ground next to truck with broken windshield
Whitetail Deer Hunting

After I Shot a Deer, It Leapt on My Truck and Smashed My Windshield

By Cheyne Matzenbacher

A bull elk in the brush.
Elk Hunting

Idaho Is Eliminating OTC Deer and Elk Tags for Nonresidents and Moving to a Draw System

By Kris Millgate

A Pennsylvania flintlock rifle with a compartment in the stock.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

19 Timeless Photos from Pennsylvania’s Flintlock Season, the Last of Its Kind in the Country

Photographs by Henry Hung, Story by Derek Horner

An old color photograph of two deer hunters in Mississippi.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Spent Thanksgiving with Southern Hunters Who Ran Deer Hounds. Here’s What I Learned

By Robert E. Price

A kid's first deer hunt in a Louisiana swamp in the 1960s.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

My Son’s First Trip to Deer Camp Was a Rite of Passage — for Both of Us

By Grits Gresham

Black Friday Deals Treestands, Blinds, Climbing Sticks, and Saddles
Deer Hunting

The 29 Best Black Friday Deals on Treestands, Blinds, and Climbing Sticks

By Derek Horner

An illustration of a boy riding a horse with his dog in front.
Deer Hunting

The Thanksgiving I Spent Alone in the Woods

By Jack McPhee

An illustration of a grizzly bear tumbling down a mountain as hunters get out of the way.
Mule Deer Hunting

A Grizzly Stole My Son’s First Deer. So We Tracked the Bear Down

By William J. McRae

A crossbow hunter with a 14-point velvet buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

This 16-Point Velvet Buck Is a New Maryland State Record

By Bob McNally

roosevelt elk
Elk Hunting

I Shot the Biggest Roosevelt Elk of My Life on a Drive

By Scott Haugen

illustration of a deer hunter drawing
Mule Deer Hunting

How a New College Grad Found Direction from His Grandpa’s Deer Rifle

By Andrew McKean

Two bucks swimming across a pond
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Watch: The Craziest Rut Footage You’ll See All Year

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of a giant double-beamed buck running away from horses in the snow.
Trophy Deer

I Tracked This Double-Beamed Buck for 8 Miles Across Ohio

By Paul Helser, as told to Ben East

An elk hunter with his bull elk and the rancher who stole it.
Elk Hunting

Watch: A Landowner Stole My Buddy’s Public-Land Elk to Deter Us from ‘Hunting This Outfit’

By Andrew McKean

deer walks uphill in brushy field
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Quit Treestands a Decade Ago. It Turns Out Hunting Whitetails from the Ground Is More Fun

By Andrew McKean

A giant Missouri buck.
Trophy Deer

He Almost Skipped the Hunt for His Son’s Homecoming, Then Shot a 200-Class Droptine

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter with a Missouri buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Missouri Bowhunter Tags 180-Class Buck That He Nicknamed ‘Texas Red’

By Bob McNally

Earl T. McMaster with his big Montana hwitetail.
Trophy Deer

I Shot a Limit of Mallards, then Tagged the No. 4 All-Time Record Buck

By Earl T. McMaster