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 ...

Wildlife experts have been predicting a mule deer extinction for decades. Luckily, no one seems to have told the deer ...

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 ...

BILLINGS — Most hunters would agree that hunting the rut for whitetails and mule deer is the perfect time to see big bucks. But the rut can be a most elusive thing. We know the breeding season in this ...

I’VE GOT a shoulder mount of a fine 4×4 mule deer buck on my wall, and if I look at him from just the right angle, I’ll swear that he’s wearing a slight smirk. Shooting that buck was like backlashing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Six people from Montana and Washington state are being charged by the Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks game wardens for unlawfully killing multiple bull elk and mule deer bucks.