Big Game Hunting(Page 6)

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

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A bull elk bugles on the side of a hill behind two cows.
Big Game Hunting

Colorado Is Switching Its Big-Game Draw. Here’s Why Hunters with Preference Points Are Short-Changed

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of Jim Carmichel and an Iranian game warden.
Big Game Hunting

Carmichel in the Middle East: Risking Our Lives to Hunt Iranian Ibex

By Jim Carmichel

A lone mule deer buck stands on a snowy ridge.
Mule Deer Hunting

Why Mule Deer Are North America’s Greatest Big-Game Animal

By Kubie Brown

Four deer lit up with a thermal on a prairie.
Big Game Hunting

Survey: Idaho Big-Game Hunters Would Ban Drones and Thermals, But Keep Most Other Tech

By Andrew McKean

A nice Ohio buck with a unicorn antler.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘I Hadn’t Shot a Deer All Year.’ Hunter Tags Unicorn Buck in the Final Days of Muzzleloader Season

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter with a giant Rocky Mountain bull elk.
Elk Hunting

Bowhunter with 86 Bulls to His Credit Tags a Pending World-Record Elk

By Dac Collins

A hunter with a big Kansas whitetail buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Army Vet Gets His First Whitetail Buck on Last Day of the Season, and It’s a 19-Point Giant

By Bob McNally

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Whitetail Deer Hunting

16 Deer Hunting Mistakes You Won’t Make Again Next Season

By Josh Honeycutt

A 16-year-old holds up moose antlers against a blue sky in a vintage photo
Moose Hunting

Instead of Staying Home for the Holidays, My Daughter Wanted to Go Moose Hunting

By Bob Cary

A collage of big bucks from 2024.
Trophy Deer

The Biggest Bucks of 2024

By Dac Collins

A Kansas rifle hunter with a big elusive buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Kansas Soldier Ditches His Tree Stand and Tags Elusive ‘Ghost’ Buck from the Ground

By Bob McNally

whitetail does in snow
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Chronic Wasting Disease Still Confounds Researchers. But Some Important New Clues Have Emerged

By Christine Peterson

A photo of CJ Alexander with huge Ohio deer with text overlaid.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: What We Should Learn from the Craziest Poaching Case of the Year

By Alex Robinson

A hunter with a tall-tined illinois buck.
Trophy Deer

Illinois Hunter Shoots 184-Inch Buck While Sitting in a Lawn Chair

By Bob McNally

A hunter kneels beside a nice buck
Trophy Deer

Indiana Bowhunter Used a Spreadsheet to Help Kill This 184-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

An older whitetail buck, bedded
Whitetail Deer Hunting

9 Ways Old Bucks Behave Differently Than Younger Deer

By Josh Honeycutt

A trail camera photo of a giant deer.
Trophy Deer

Rookie Crossbow Hunter’s First Buck Is a 200-Class Nontypical Monster

By Bob McNally

Fred bear stone sheep
Sheep Hunting

Fred Bear Took His World-Record Stone Sheep with the ‘Best Shot I’ll Ever Make’

By Fred Bear, as told to Byron W. Dalrymple

pennsylvania buck
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: What We Get Wrong About Whitetails, with Jeff Sturgis

By Alex Robinson

A big 10-point buck in the back of a UTV.
Trophy Deer

Kansas Farmer Tags What Could Be One of the Top 5 Archery Bucks Ever Taken in the State

By Bob McNally

A hunter in a wide-brimmed hat kneeling behind a gray desert bighorn.
Sheep Hunting

Carmichel in Arizona: How to Hunt an Inaccessible Desert Bighorn

By Jim Carmichel

Freel and Miller Drag a Buck
Mule Deer Hunting

Hunter Amnesia: What It Is, and How You Can Avoid It

By Tyler Freel

Ashley Matchett and Chris Janeski
Whitetail Deer Hunting

On Her First Successful Deer Hunt with Her Husband, Hunter Shoots a Super Wide Pennsylvania Buck

By Bob McNally

A man holds up the rack of a large 14 point whitetail buck as the sun sets behind him.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Tyler Jordan Tags a 200-Class Louisiana Buck That Could Be the New State Record

By Alice Jones Webb

An Oklahoma bowhunter with a 17-point buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

An Oklahoma Bowhunter Heard Rumors That the 180-Class Buck He’d Been Hunting for Years Had Been Hit by a Car. They Weren’t True

By Bob McNally

Two whitetail shoulder mounts hang on a white wall.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

A Son Finally Tracked Down His Dad’s Long-Lost Buck. It’s the Biggest Typical Whitetail Ever Killed in Kansas

By Alice Jones Webb

Boone and Crockett Club have declared javelina as a new trophy big game species.
Big Game Hunting

Boone and Crockett Accepts Javelina as the Continent’s Newest Trophy Species, the First Addition in Nearly 25 Years

By Andrew McKean

A bowhunter in the woods with a nice buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Tries a Closer Setup, Draws on a Huge Buck While Surrounded by Does

By Bob McNally

an illustration of two hunters and a deer
Mule Deer Hunting

The Biggest Mishaps of My Deer-Hunting Career, by Jim Zumbo

By Jim Zumbo

Learning how to skin a deer is relatively easy, all you need is a sharp knife.
Mule Deer Hunting

How to Skin a Deer, Step by Step

By Natalie Krebs

A hunter with a big Pennsylvania buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Pennsylvania Hunter Tags a 170-Class Public-Land Buck on a Family Deer Drive

By Bob McNally

late season whitetail
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Tips for Patterning and Hunting a Late-Season Buck

By Josh Honeycutt

A bowhunter with a big Indiana buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Tags the Biggest Buck of Her Life in Indiana While Hunting a New Spot

By Bob McNally

An Ohio hunter with a buck he tagged during the rifle opener.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Ohio Rifle Hunter Makes His Second Shot Count, Tags a 22-Pointer on Opening Day

By Bob McNally

A college freshman with his first bow buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

College Student’s First Bow Buck Is a 17-Point Kansas Slammer

By Bob McNally

A hunter with a rare-looking buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Teen Tags ‘Unicorn’ Buck on His Second-Ever Solo Hunt

By Bob McNally

A trail cam photo of a buck in Kansas.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Kansas Bowhunter Arrows 200-Class Buck That Was a Local Legend

By Bob McNally

A hunter with a buck loaded into a truck bed.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

After 200 Hours of Bowhunting, Wisconsin Hunter Finally Sees His Target Buck on Opening Day of Gun Season

By Bob McNally

A hunter holds up a buck with stickers on its rack.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Hunter Tags Two Back-to-Back Bucks from the Ground in North Carolina

By Bob McNally

Two hunters field dress a deer.
Deer Hunting

How to Field Dress a Deer, Step by Step

By Natalie Krebs

A hunter calls in a blacktail buck.
Deer Hunting

3 Totally Normal Deer Hunting Tactics We Used to Think Were Bogus

By Natalie Krebs

Two hunters sit and pose in the bed of a truck next to a mule deer.
Mule Deer Hunting

An Old-School Western Mule Deer Hunt, in Memory of Two Midwestern Dads

By Andrew McKean

colorado whitetail
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: Real Talk About Deer Cartridges and Bullets

By Alex Robinson

The governor of Virginia accepts a deer.
Deer Hunting

Tribes Uphold Centuries-Old Treaty by Delivering Dead Deer to Virginia Governor

By Andrew Sharp

A teen hunter with a big Ohio buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Teen Tags Buck with 5 Drop Tines She and Her Sister Had Watched for Weeks

By Bob McNally

Three fancy Savage 99s
Deer Hunting

Jim Carmichel’s Classic Deer Rifles

By Jim Carmichel

A bowhunter with a 16-point buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Bowhunter Bleats in 16-Pointer and Kills It with a 20-Year-Old Bow

By Bob McNally

Mark Drury with a giant whitetail buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

13 Advanced Deer Hunting Tactics from the Experts

By Josh Honeycutt

A bowhunter with a big buck in Illinois.
Trophy Deer

Illinois Bowhunter Was ‘In the Right Place at the Right Time’ to Tag 185-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

A turkey hunter with a goofy expression aims at a longbeard.
Big Game Hunting

The Worst Shots I’ve Ever Made

By Charles Elliott

A buck runs away. Paying attent
Deer Hunting

How to Blood Trail a Deer

By Natalie Krebs

A Florida hunter and his buck.
Trophy Deer

Florida Hunter Tags 187-Inch Buck While Watching the Gators Game

By Bob McNally

A woman stands behind a moose.
Moose Hunting

When My Dad Was Diagnosed with Cancer, I Fulfilled a Dream Moose Hunt for Him

By Ali Juten

whitetail buck bed
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Should You Hunt a Buck’s Bedding Area During the Rut? 

By Josh Honeycutt

A photograph of a glossy wood-stocked deer rifle.
Deer Hunting

Jim Carmichel’s Favorite Deer Rifles

By Jim Carmichel

Hunter with very large deer
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Podcast: The Case for Ditching Your Treestand and Hunting from the Ground

By Alex Robinson

A buck on a tailgate.
Trophy Deer

Veteran Arrows Giant Ohio Buck from the Ground After Getting to His Stand Late

By Bob McNally

A deer hunter with a big Illinois buck in CRP grass.
Trophy Deer

Illinois Crossbow Hunter Stalks a 195-Inch Buck Through a Cornfield

By Bob McNally

An illustration of a boy and a buck face to face.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Looks That Kill: Using a Deer’s Curiosity to Your Advantage

By J. Frank Dobie

A hunter with a buck in front of a red shed.
Trophy Deer

Watch: Wisconsin Bowhunter Arrows 14-Pointer on Public Ground He’s Hunted for 30 Years

By Bob McNally

A bowhunter sitting crosslegged in a field beside a big buck
Trophy Deer

Veteran Climbs Out of Tree, Stalks and Arrows 19-Point Kansas Buck on Army Land

By Bob McNally

Side-by-side photos of a black bear approaching a fresh deer carcass and then dragging it into the woods.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Video: Hunters Watch a Black Bear Steal Their Deer Without Putting Up a Fight

By Katie Hill

A buck scent checks a doe.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 15 Best Spots for Hunting the Peak Rut, Ranked

By Josh Honeycutt

A hunter touches a dead deer on the back..
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Q&A: How New Deer Hunters Think About Guns, Butchering, Old-School Hunters, and Their First Kill

By Natalie Krebs