Big Game Hunting (Page 11)

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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

Mule Deer Hunting

Question of Ethics: The Buck I Was Snow Tracking Suddenly Broke Through the Ice. Should I Shoot Him?

By Nick Fasciano

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Does Ozonics Actually Work? Here’s What 5 Independent, Diehard Deer Hunters Say After Field Testing

By Alex Robinson

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

How This Hunter Killed Three 200-Inch Bucks in Three Years

By Hayden Sammak

Ohio Crossbow Hunter Stalks into Position on a Bedded 200-Class Buck

By Jason Thomas, as told to Dac Collins

Bowhunter Tags Surprise 210-Class Iowa Buck on Pressured Public Ground

By J.D. Vandenburg, as told to Andrew McKean

The 15 Best Shotguns for Deer Hunting

By Tony Hansen, Curtis Niedermier

Bowhunter Tags Double Palmated Buck After Passing It Two Years in a Row

New York Hunter Gets a Second Chance on This 180-Inch Buck

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Tags Giant Kansas Buck with Double Drop-Tines

Whitetail Deer Hunting

How to Hunt Big Bucks Over Bait

By Josh Honeycutt

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Bowhunter Tags Legendary 212-Inch Buck from a Brush Blind

By Hayden Sammak

Mule Deer Hunting

Teen Tags Monster Mule Deer, Finds Its Sheds 50 Yards from Where It Fell

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Why Post-Rut Is the New Best Time to Hunt Whitetails

By Michael Hanback

Mule Deer Hunting

Mule Deer Hunting Tips

By Colton Heward

Big Game Hunting

Wisconsin Bowhunter Kills Cougar in Self Defense: “I Felt Like the Only Option I Had Was to Shoot”

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Pennsylvania Crossbow Hunter Tags Giant 18-Point Buck with a Little Help from His Friends

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Saskatchewan Hunter Takes ‘Two-For-One’ Buck with a Giant Deadhead Stuck to Its Rack

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Hunt Trophy Does, Turn Off the Damn Phone, Befriend Your Neighbors, and Make Deer Hunting Fun Again

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Maine Hunter Tags One of the Biggest 8-Points in State History

Whitetail Deer Hunting

High Schooler Tags Enormous East-Texas Buck That Should Set a New State Record

Long Before the ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Became a Tourist Deathtrap, It Was My Dad’s Hunting Camp

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Ends 3-Year Quest for 180-Class Oklahoma Buck

6 Wild-Game Rituals That Are About Much More Than the Meat

By Gerry Bethge, Josh Dahlke, Tyler Freel, David Karczynski, Ben Long, Andrew McKean

Big Game Hunting

An Inside Look at the Wildlife Lab That Ages 10,000 Animals Every Month

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Dr. Grant Woods on What Hunters Should Know About the Rut, Weather, and Deer Activity

By Alex Robinson

Lawmaker Proposes ‘All-You-Can-Kill’ Elk Permits for Wyoming Ranchers

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Oklahoma Bowhunter Tags a 230-Inch, 30-Point Buck on Opening Day

Bowhunter Tags 16-Point Buck Still in Velvet, Could Be an Alabama State Record