Big Game Hunting(Page 2)

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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

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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

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Mule Deer Hunting

These Basic Tools and Tactics Can Make Any Deer Hunter a Better Shooter

By Alex Robinson

A crossbow hunter with a big Kansas buck.
Trophy Deer

Fishing Guide Grunts in This Stud Kansas Buck to 2 Yards

By Bob McNally

A black and white and red illustration of a hunter looking behind him to see a big buck.
Mule Deer Hunting

Old-School Advice for Still-Hunting Whitetail Deer

By Ben East

A whitetail buck in a grassy field.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Why Trophy Deer Hunting Is a Trap

By Jim Zumbo

A bowhunter with a huge, 34-point Missouri buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Missouri Bowhunter Ends 3-Year Quest for ‘Cactus Jack,’ a 34-Point Buck

By Bob McNally

A Maine hunter in blaze orange and a green check coat with a nice buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘I Laughed, I Cried.’ After 36 Years, North Woods Hunter Finally Tags His First Deer

By Natalie Krebs

Illustration of a hunter aiming a rifle at a deer in the snow.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Legendary North Woods Deer Tracker Is the Last of His Kind

By Gerry Bethge

A buck approaches cover
Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Whitetail Tactic Most Hunters Abandoned — and Why It Still Works

By Beka Garris

A moose hunter falls backward as a black bear charges
Moose Hunting

My Guide Left Me Alone, and I Was Mauled by a Black Bear

By William D. Brown

A big Ohio buck photographed with a cellular trail camera.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Ohio Crossbow Hunter Sees a 190-Class ‘Mega Buck’ on Camera — and Tags It That Afternoon

By Bob McNally

the general sheds
Trophy Deer

He Bought the World Record Whitetail Sheds for $1 Million — Then Found Out They Had Been Tampered With

By Alex Robinson

Two hunters with a pending North Dakota record ram.
Sheep Hunting

North Dakota Hunter Tags Pending Record Bighorn with the Current Record-Holder by His Side

By Kris Millgate

A young hunter with her first buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Kindergartener’s First Deer Is a Huge Droptine Buck

By Bob McNally

A black man in hunters camo holds a rifle.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I’m an Immigrant, a Veteran, and Finally… a Hunter

By Ron Taylor, as told to Natalie Krebs

A hunter with a big Oklahoma buck.
Trophy Deer

Oklahoma Hunter Tags His Biggest Buck Yet — from the Ground

By Bob McNally

An illustration of a hunter in a blue jacket leaning out a barn window to shoot a deer.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Drove 180 Miles to Hunt Deer. The Biggest Buck of My Life Lived Behind My Barn

By Harold Brigham

a rutting bull moose stands in a river
Moose Hunting

I Spent 12 Days Trapped with a Moose Guide Who Wouldn’t Give Up

By Andrew McKean

A hunter and his buddy with a big Missouri buck.
Deer Hunting

Louisiana Bowhunter Drives 9 Hours North to Tag a Giant Buck After a Rainstorm

By Bob McNally

A hunter with a Pennsylvania buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Tracked a Buck for 36 Hours to Find a Game Warden Had Already Taken the Antlers

By Dac Collins

A mule deer buck in the desert with a sunrise.
Mule Deer Hunting

I Passed on the Biggest Mule Deer of My Life

By Mark Sullivan

A bowhunter admires a big Iowa buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Public-Land Hunter Says This Huge Iowa Buck Is ‘the Pinnacle of His Bowhunting Life’

By Bob McNally

A view of the village of Kipnuk after Typhoon Halong.
Moose Hunting

Alaskan Officials Extend Moose Seasons in Areas Still Reeling from Devastating Typhoon

By Dac Collins

A dead buck that was infected with EHD.
Deer Hunting

When EHD Hits Deer Paradise a Hunter Is Left to Make Sense of the Devastation

By Andrew McKean

A bowhunter with an 8-point buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Tags His Target Buck After Watching It for 6 Years on Trail Cameras

By Bob McNally

A deer hunter with a big buck from Indiana.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Indiana Hunter Tags a Dandy 12-Pointer, Then Hauls the Buck Out in a Canoe

By Bob McNally

An illustration of an old-school hunter rattling
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Was Rattling Really Born in Texas? The Untold Story Behind the Favorite Tactic

By Hart Stillwell

An illustration of a man and a buck falling down a snowy hillside.
Mule Deer Hunting

I Work Hard for All My Deer. This Buck Humbled Me

By Andy Russell

kentucky buck
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Kentucky Hunter Tagged This Massive Buck After Receiving a Cell Cam Photo and Driving Through the Night

By Bob McNally

spooky trail cam photos
Whitetail Deer Hunting

19 Eerie Trail Camera Photos You Can’t Unsee

By Josh Honeycutt

A black and white photo of a crossbow set as a trip wire.
Deer Hunting

Game Warden Tales: I Hunted Down a Trip-Wire Crossbow Poacher

By David Zeug

a buck in rut
Whitetail Deer Hunting

27 Bad Excuses Why You Didn’t Kill a Buck Last Year

By Will Brantley, Tony Hansen

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Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘His Antlers Grew 40 Inches.’ Kansas Hunter Arrows Massive Nontypical Buck

By Bob McNally

A whitetail deer makes a scrape on the edge of a field.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Where to Kill a Buck This Weekend: Target These Key Food Sources and Scrapes

By Derek Horner

A painting of two bears attacking a guy.
Moose Hunting

They Tell You to Play Dead When a Brown Bear Attacks. I Found Out If It Really Works

By Rollin Braden, as told to Marguerite Reiss

A buck scent checks a doe.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 9 Best Deer Stand Locations for Hunting the Rut

By Michael Hanback

Skinning a deer in a skinning shed.
Deer Hunting

Don’t Toss Out Your Deer Hides. Here’s What to Do With Them Instead

By Jim Zumbo

A Missouri bowhunter with a buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

College Kid Plays Hooky and Arrows a Huge Missouri Buck with 3 Main Beams

By Bob McNally

An illustration of a man kneeling in the snow over a fire.
Deer Hunting

This One Stupid Decision Nearly Cost Me My Life on a Maine Deer Hunt

By Bill Shaber

An illustration of Alaskan settlers seeing caribou in the early 1900s.
Big Game Hunting

The Craziest Thing This Legendary Frontiersman Ever Saw in Alaska

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

A bowhunter with a rare piebald buck taken in Ohio.
Deer Hunting

‘Just Like Clockwork.’ Ohio Bowhunter Tags a Rare Piebald Buck He’d Been Seeing On Trail Cams for Years

By Bob McNally

blacktail
Deer Hunting

Columbia Blacktails Are the Toughest Deer to Hunt

By Scott Haugen

A hunter with a super rare cactus bull elk tagged in Idaho.
Elk Hunting

Hunter’s “Once in a Lifetime” Elk Has a Wild-Looking Cactus Rack

By Bob McNally

Deer rubs side by side in the dark and with UV lights.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Rubs and Scrapes Glow Like ‘Highway Reflectors’ to Deer, New Study Shows

By Natalie Krebs

Hunter with baby in carrier on back also carries part of an elk through rocky, woody terrain.
Antelope Hunting

I Used to Be an Anti-Hunter. Now I Take My Daughter Hunting with Me

By Christine Peterson

An illustration of a buck running through the woods and a hunter aiming at it.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Went Looking for a Lost Hunter, and Found the Big Buck I’d Been Tracking All Season

By Bob Cary

The world-record Brooks Bull being scored on the floor.
Elk Hunting

Brooks Bull Officially Declared New Archery World-Record Elk. It Narrowly Missed the All-Time Record Due to a Scoring Technicality

By Natalie Krebs

barren ground caribou
Big Game Hunting

Barren Ground Caribou Hunts Are Disappearing — or Getting Outrageously Expensive

By P.J. Reilly

The vast Alaskan forest
Big Game Hunting

The Tlingit Legend of the Kóoshdaa Káa

By Bjorn Dihle

An illustration of Jim Carmichel shooting offhand with an eland in the background.
Big Game Hunting

The Hunt That Broke Jim Carmichel

By Jim Carmichel

B&W photo of hunter with deer in trunk
Trophy Deer

I Spent 5 Years Bowhunting One of the Biggest Nontypicals Ever. Then My Buddy Killed Him

By Al Dawson

A watercolor of a bighorn ram on a cliff.
Sheep Hunting

I Nearly Died Trying to Recover My Bighorn Ram, But I Couldn’t Leave Him on the Mountain

By Steve Coy with Larry Mueller

A film photo of a goat hunter resting beside his goat and mountain bike.
Big Game Hunting

I Used My Old-School Mountain Bike to Hunt My Archery World-Record Mountain Goat

By Lyle Willmarth, as told to Lee Kline