Today, if you want to succeed on public land, you have to hunt the deer in the best places they live. In many cases, this is ...

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 ...

In the West, the general rifle season for mule deer occurs in October. Utah’s general rifle season begins Oct. 19, while units in southeast Idaho generally start on Oct. 10. Historically these seasons ...

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 ...

Another 18,094 put in for 25 permits in the adjoining mule deer trophy Hunting District 261. With his permit in hand, Bartkowski prepared himself all summer long for what he was certain could be a ...

The Boone & Crockett Club has been keeping meticulous records of the continent's most impressive big game animals for more than a century. In that time, thousands of mulie bucks have made the books, ...

Even a quarter-mile distant, the buck looked huge. His long body stood out black against golden aspens and, when he raised his head, the massive antlers glowed in the first sun of morning. “Just look ...

We awoke to a howling wind beating against our uninsulated 14-foot enclosed trailer. As I sat up, my breath hung in the air like a fog. I fumbled around for a lighter to spark the propane buddy heater ...

There are impressive hunting debuts and then there are extraordinary hunting debuts. A hunt by Suzanne Skvarch of Summerville in September falls into the latter category. Skvarch recently learned that ...