Big Game Hunting (Page 11)

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Watch: Utah Officials Reject Elk Hunter’s Claim that a Sheriff’s Deputy Stole His Bull Illegally

Poacher Loses Hunting Privileges for 24 Years After Famous ‘Hollywood Buck’ Turns Up Dead on Facebook

By Natalie Krebs

A Bull-Moose Brawl and Meat-Packing Sled Dogs: A Mountain Man’s Last Hunt Before Winter

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Michigan Makes Youth Hunt and Opportunities for Disabled Hunters Antlerless Only, Faces Heavy Backlash

By Alice Jones Webb

My Buddy and I Shot the Same Elk — and It Turned Out to Be the Colorado State Record Bull

By Harry E. Troxell III

Big Game Hunting

Hawaiian Hunters Help Turn in Hog-Contest Cheaters Who Stole a Pet Pig

By Alice Jones Webb

Minnesota Man Charged with Killing His Neighbor’s Dog While Under Investigation for Poaching Deer and Baiting Bears

By Alice Jones Webb

I Drew a Rare Archery Elk Tag In Kentucky and the Hunt Was Tougher Than Expected

Montana Judge Says Landowners Don’t Have ‘Absolute Freedom’ to Kill Elk, and Allowing Public Hunting Doesn’t Infringe on Their Rights

Big Game Hunting

My Hunt for the Man-Eating Lions of Matiyani

By Scott Haugen

Mule Deer Hunting

Are Chronic Wasting Disease Fears Making People Quit Deer Hunting?

By Christine Peterson

Big Game Hunting

Software Glitch Wrongly Awarded Tags to 738 Hunters in Washington State’s Special Permit Draw

Breaking the Rules to Kill a Bull Elk, from the Archives

Big Game Hunting

The Sable Curse: Chasing the ‘Prince of Africa’ in the Karoo

By Scott Haugen

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Ultimate Plan for Scouting Deer in Summer

By Michael Hanback

Real Talk on Saddle Hunting. Is It Time to Ditch the Treestand?

By Scott Einsmann

Mule Deer Hunting

O’Connor in Arizona: Lost, Trigger Happy, and Tagged Out

By Jack O'Connor

Mule Deer Hunting

Montana Police Chief Faces Felony Charges for Illegally Hunting on Tribal Lands and Tampering with Witnesses

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Is Public Land Deer Hunting Ruined Forever? Dan Infalt, the Big Buck Serial Killer, Weighs In

By Alex Robinson

Colorado Eliminates Over-the-Counter Archery Elk Tags for Nonresidents

By Natalie Krebs

Mule Deer Hunting

Decoying Prairie Bucks with Dad

By Derek Horner

Does Chronic Wasting Disease Infect Humans? Despite Shocking Headlines, Recent Research Suggests It Does Not

By Alex Robinson

Big Game Hunting

Hunting Wild Red Stag in Argentina During the Roar Is a Lot Like Elk Hunting the Rut — But Better

By Andrew McKean

Big Game Hunting

Hunters of Color Is on a Mission to Make the Outdoors More Accessible to Minorities — Whether the Hunting Community Is Ready or Not

Mule Deer Hunting

Montana Raises Record Funds for a Coveted Mule Deer Tag — Through a Public Raffle

By Andrew McKean

Ohio Buck Could Become Third Biggest Whitetail of All Time, but Major Scoring Questions Remain

By Hayden Sammak

Whitetail Deer Hunting

CJ Alexander, the Hunter Who Killed a Potentially Record-Breaking Buck in Ohio, Is Now Under Investigation

By Hayden Sammak

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Oklahoma Plans to Combat CWD by Releasing Captive-Bred Deer into the Wild

Jack O’Connor Makes a Flawless Shot on a Record-Book Elk

By Jack O'Connor

California Guide’s Roosevelt Elk Is a New World Record. It’s Not His First

Tales from the North Country: When a Giant Bull Elk Escaped from a Wisconsin Game Farm, Authorities Called Upon a Retired Marine

Deer Hunter Faces 12 Years in Prison for Accidentally Bringing Ammo on Vacation to Turks and Caicos

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Minnesota DNR Blew Up Illegal Tree Stands with Dynamite: ‘My Whole Place Shook’

Mule Deer Hunting

Viral Articles Claim Two ‘Hunters Died After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison.’ Here’s What Really Happened

Wisconsin Hunters Will Get More Chances to Hunt Elk This Fall

Big Game Hunting

Hunting the Nile Crocodile, the Very Picture of Death

By Andrew McKean

Most Hunters Will Never Get the Chance to Chase a Bighorn Ram, but What About Ewes?

By Christine Peterson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

30 of the Biggest Whitetail Shed Antler Sets Ever Found

By Josh Honeycutt

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Indiana Taxidermist Helps Identify State’s First Case of Chronic Wasting Disease

Elk Hunters Had a Phenomenal Season in Wyoming While Idaho Saw the Worst Elk Harvest in a Decade

Nevada’s First-Ever Moose Season Excites Hunters as Big-Game Applications Open

Big Game Hunting

Botswana President Bashes UK’s Proposed Trophy Import Ban, Calls It a Return to ‘Colonial Conquest’

This Happened to Me: The Police Raided My Deer Hunt

By Taylor Chamberlin, As told to Scott Einsmann

Big Game Hunting

Arizona Will Stop Auctioning Big-Game Tags to the Wealthiest Hunters

Big Game Hunting

Auction vs. Raffle Tags: Should States Stop Selling Big-Game Tags to the Highest Bidder?

By Andrew McKean

Big Game Hunting

Cape Fear: Hunting Buffalo in the Matetsi Safari Area of Zimbabwe

Story by John B. Snow, Photographs by Justin Moore

Big Game Hunting

States Want to Issue Lots of Transferrable Big-Game Tags to Landowners. Regular Hunters Want to Stop Them

By Andrew McKean

Thieves Are Stealing More and More Racks From Hunters in the West — and Their Profits Keep Growing

Big Game Hunting

The onX Effect: Digital Mapping Apps Have Changed the Way We Hunt. Now What Will They Do With All Our Data?

By Christine Peterson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Man Convicted of Wildlife Crimes for Trying to Help Undercover Game Wardens Recover a Deer with His Drone

Big Game Hunting

Can Hunting Survive in California? And If It Can’t, Who’s Going to Pay to Conserve the State’s Wildlife and Habitat?

Story by Christine Peterson, Photographs by Tom Fowlks

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Drones Could Revolutionize How Hunters Recover Lost Deer … If They’re Not Banned First

By Hayden Sammak

Antelope Hunting

There’s Now a Jurassic Park for Vanishing Wildlife. It’s Called Texas

Story by Dac Collins, Photographs by Jeff Wilson

Hunting Argali Sheep with a Crappy Scope, One Box of Ammo, and No Translator

By John B. Snow

Hunter Tags 15-Point Buck with Unusual Double Rows of Tines

Mule Deer Hunting

Here’s What Top Chronic Wasting Disease Researchers Can’t Say on the Record

By Andrew McKean

Why Everybody Loves to Hate Nonresident Elk Hunters

By Andrew McKean

Welcome to the New, Uncertain Era of DIY Sheep Hunting

Big Game Hunting

Colorado Cancels April Mountain Lion Season Amid Anti-Hunting Opposition

Hunter’s First Deer Is an Old, 8-Point Leucistic Buck

Deer Hunter Success Rates Vary as Southeast Hunters Punch Tags, Northeast Hunters Eat Tag Soup

Hunter Tags ‘Dwarf Buck’ the Size of a Labrador Retriever

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Biggest Bucks of 2023

By Alex Robinson

Big Game Hunting

This Could Be the Heaviest Black Bear Ever Tagged in North Carolina