If there is one lesson to be taken away from a Uinta County family’s magnificent mule deer hunting season, it’s that putting ...

I went to the Sonora Desert to hunt giant mule deer. The deer were bigger, and the tracking conditions tougher, than I could ...

I’ve always been a big woods whitetail hunter. I grew up in New England, where deer hunting meant tracking, still hunting, and roving through endless miles of mixed hardwoods and thick pine forests ...

If you’ve never been mule deer hunting on the prairie or in the mountains, then you should start making a plan to do it right now. Why? You know those dreams in your head of wide, forking antlers ...

On that day two weekends ago, 13-year-old Lyndi Ishler of Petty Creek and 30-year-old Oby Schulz of Evaro each bagged magnificent trophy mule deer bucks. For Ishler, a seventh-grade student at ...

There’s no better time to tag a gagger mule deer. Here’s how to find and hunt them in four key western habitats If your wallet holds a western mule deer tag, you’re in for some great hunting this ...

The badlands bucks have been touted as coveted and unsurpassed by outfitters. The region was even featured in a hunting video game. Numerous national sporting publications have printed articles ...

When it comes to hunter crowding and the state of mule deer, non-resident hunting pressure and harvests aren’t the only culprits, but mounting evidence shows they’re a big one. According to an FWP ...

Many times I have deliberately stalked mule deer downwind with suc­cess, but it is something you can’t al­ ways depend on. If ...

In a rare bit of good news about chronic wasting disease, a new paper shows that harvesting more deer — specifically adult bucks — is better for slowing the spread of the contagious neurological ...

Hunter numbers and harvest totals in west-central Montana are holding steady compared to last year, according to Montana Fish ...

Western Montana hunters have a lot to be thankful for today. Even if we haven't tagged a deer or elk yet, we can all be grateful for the opportunity to get out and hunt in so many wonderful and varied ...