Big Game Hunting(Page 3)

Big-game hunting tips and tactics for chasing deer, elk, bears, antelope and more.

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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.

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.

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

A Missouri bowhunter with a buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

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

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

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.

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

Columbia Blacktails Are the Toughest Deer to Hunt

By Scott Haugen

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

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

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

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

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

The vast Alaskan forest

Big Game Hunting

The Tlingit Legend of the Kóoshdaa Káa

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

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

A watercolor of a bighorn ram on a cliff.

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

A hunter with a big droptine buck taken in Ohio.

This Buck Outsmarted Me for 3 Seasons. One Change Finally Gave Me the Chance I Needed

A bowhunter from oregon with a nice bull.

After 20 Years of Applying, 28 Days of Hunting, and 130 Miles of Hiking, I Arrowed My Bull at 8 Yards

By Kris Millgate

An illustration of a grizzly mauling a man with a wooden rifle in Alaska.

I Ignored My Gut Feeling and Went Hunting with Buddies Anyway. Then a Bear Almost Killed Me

By Larry Mueller, Marguerite Reiss

An illustration of deer hunters

Whitetail Deer Hunting

We Invited a 13-Year-Old on His First Deer Hunt. He Ended Up Teaching Us a Few Things

The author stands in frame, holding the antlers of a Montana bull elk

I Shot the Only Elk I Saw in Montana

By Derek Horner

An Oklahoma hunter with a big buck with lots of points in the back of a wagon

I Shot the Biggest Buck of My Life with a 10-Year-Old Crossbow and Just One Arrow to My Name

An illustration of a hunter in a pine tree about to shoot a 250-inch buck.

The Hunt for the Jameson Buck, a 250-Inch Legend That Lived in an Old Strip Mine

By Michael Pearce

Mitch Stamm Buck

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Self-Films His Hunt for a Buck with an Insanely Wide Spread

A scratched up Winchester 94 and some loose rounds lay against some old wooden boards.

Jack O’Connor on America’s Number One Sporting Rifle — the Winchester 94 in .30-30

By Jack O'Connor

Elk Hunting With the Crowds: Expert Tips for Punching a Tag During the General Elk Season

A pronghorn antelope out on the plains.

Antelope Hunting

Colorado Has Already Suspended Two Hunts Due to the Government Shutdown. More Could Be on the Horizon

A screenshot of AI YouTube hunting personality

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Meet Kayla, the Sexy AI-Generated Huntress Telling You How to Hunt Deer

By Alex Robinson

Caribou on tundra with a map of the ambler road behind them.

Big Game Hunting

The Ambler Road Project Would Jeopardize One of the Last Great Wilderness Hunts in America

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of pronghorn antelope running

Antelope Hunting

A Sneeze Turned into the Best Pronghorn Tactic I Ever Tried

By Bert Popowski

A young hunter with a huge Indiana buck tagged on opening day.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

My 8-Year-Old ‘Kept His Cool’ When This 180-Class Buck Bedded in Front of Us

A hunter with a flintlock rifle in Kansas

Antelope Hunting

I Took a Pronghorn with My Flintlock After the Longest Stalk of My Life

Two photos of a big wisconsin buck with tons of mass.

Wisconsin Bowhunter Arrows Giant 16-Point That Was ‘Much Bigger a Few Years Ago’

An illustration of a bull elk

Antelope Hunting

How My Wife and I Bought 5 Big-Game Tags and Pulled Off the Western Hunt of a Lifetime

By Robert Merchant

I Shot the Third Biggest Elk of All Time

By Clarence Brown as told to John O. Cartier

Mule Deer Hunting

The Legend of Old Crooked Horn, the ‘Biggest Buck in Utah’

By Lew Littleton as told to Jim Zumbo

A bowhunter kneels behind a big buck in Wisconsin.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Bowhunter Tags 20-Point Buck While Sneaking into His Stand at Dawn

teen hunter Samantha Bartlett with a Pennsylvania bull elk

14-Year-Old Becomes the Youngest Hunter to Ever Tag a Bull Elk in Pennsylvania

Jack O'Connor on safari, kneeling behind a waterbuck with three guides/trackers beside him.

Big Game Hunting

The .270 Isn’t Powerful Enough? Jack O’Connor Took His on a 30-Day African Safari

By Jack O'Connor

Two hunters drag a deer in a sled in the back yard of their suburban home.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

9 Photos of a Surreal Day in the Life of Suburban Deer Hunters

Photographs by Greg Kahn, story by Natalie Krebs

A black bear walks across a meadow in a national park.

Big Game Hunting

163K People Just Applied for 172 Florida Bear Tags. A Bunch of Applicants Were Anti-Hunters

A photo of Ed Koberstein with his big Alberta typical buck.

The Hunt for the Ed Koberstein Buck, a World-Record Contender That Lost After a Scoring Mixup

A re-colorized image of Ted Trueblood in a plaid hunting jacket looking at the mountains.

Mule Deer Hunting

Why You Should Always Talk to the Game Warden, According to Ted Trueblood

By Ted Trueblood

An illustration of a rhino charging theodore roosevelt

Big Game Hunting

I Faced Down a Charging Rhino, Just Like My Great-Grandfather, Teddy Roosevelt

By Jonathan Roosevelt

A young hunter approaches a bull moose in an illustration.

I Was Nearly Trampled by an Angry Bull Moose

By J. Lee Voorhees

A buck dead from EHD in Ohio.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Ohio’s EHD Outbreak Worsens as Officials Consider Tag Cuts and Hunters Ask for Even Tighter Restrictions

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Is Your Wild-Game Processor Shorting You on Venison?

By Alex Robinson

Ian Stasko and Andrew Porter are the elk hunters missing in Colorado.

Other Hunters Report Latest Sighting of 2 Missing Elk Hunters, as Massive Search Effort Continues in Colorado

By Kris Millgate

field dressing big game

Big Game Hunting

Old-School Tips and Traditional Knowledge for Field Dressing Big Game Animals

By Maurice H. Decker

A black and white illustration of a bear attacking a man

I’ll Always Remember the Day I Went Round for Round With a Grizzly

By Don Vitto, as told to Jim Zumbo

whitetail deer hunting

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 20 Biggest Myths in Deer Hunting

By Michael Hanback

An illustration of a bull moose charging a hunter in a red checked shirt

What I’ve Learned from the 50-Plus Moose I’ve Killed, and the Ones That Tried to Kill Me

Jack Atcheson Sr.

In His Day, This Legend Likely Shot More Trophy Elk On Public Land Than Any Hunter in North America

By Jack Atcheson Sr. as told to Michael Hanback

A photo collage of a drone operating deer tracker amid an EHD outbreak.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘Death Is in the Air.’ This Drone Pilot and Deer Tracker Is Uncovering Mass Whitetail Die Offs

By Alex Robinson

The author tests the new Sig Sauer stabilized spotting scope

Big Game Hunting

The Best Spotting Scopes of 2025, Budget to Premium Optics Tested

By Andrew McKean

A caribou bull in the fall.

Big Game Hunting

I Wrecked My Horse, Knocked My Scope, and Missed a Giant Caribou Bull. It Was Worth It

By Charles Elliott

Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Elk Hunting Adventures

By Scott Haugen

A blue illustration of bighorns.

I Drew a Rare Desert Bighorn Tag, and Killed One of the Biggest Rams in the State

whitetail drone research

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: This Thermal Drone Project Is Revealing the Surprising Behavior of Mature Bucks

By Alex Robinson

The third-largest public-land gator ever taken in MS.

Big Game Hunting

‘It About Snatched Me Out of the Boat.’ Hunters Tag Giant Gator That’s Nearly a State Record