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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had caugt two fleeting glimpses of the big buck. The first was when he went sailing in long bounds across a clearing in pursuit of a doe, and the second was one afternoon when he walked right up to ...

In the heart of Big Sky Country, where wide-open spaces have long drawn hunters chasing the thrill of a big mule deer buck, things are changing fast. The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission just made ...

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 ...

Trophy bucks are fun to look at. There’s no denying that. Whether its tall-tined typicals or wide-racked anomalies with tons of kickers and coke-bottle wide main beams, there’s something about a ...

Take a gander at the Boone and Crockett record books for Montana nontypical mule deer and you'll note that many of the entries were made 20, 30, even 80 years ago. For a number of reasons - drought, ...

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 ...