Big Game

The snow is mostly melted in Arizona’s high country, flowers paint open hillsides and budding leaves are replacing their fallen brethren. It is a time for new life, marking spring bear season in the Grand Canyon state.

Before placing a deposit of your hard-earned money on an outfitted hunt, it pays to consider these six factors.

If you want to take an inventory of mature whitetail bucks in your area, then cover some ground in a vehicle during summer and glass green fields at sunset.

When it comes to a bucket list ranking of big game, the mountain grizzly is sure to be at the top for many adventurous bowhunters.

Are you planning a bowhunt for one of the most popular western big game animals – elk, mule deer or pronghorn? Here’s how they’re the same, only different.

Tagging a mature whitetail buck during late-season is usually a challenge, and that’s especially true on public land.

Central Michigan isn’t known as a hotbed for big bucks, but the host of MAD Forager encounters a mature whitetail on public land, and it’s worth checking out.

The rut can cause whitetail bucks to act in unpredictable ways, as this bowhunter learns on a mid-November afternoon.

A brown bear responds to your prey-in-distress call, and now it’s facing you at 12 yards. Decision time!

One great way to obtain permission on private land is to offer to remove a doe — or three — from the deer herd.

Black bears from the neighboring states of Minnesota and Wisconsin are spilling into northeast Iowa — maybe to stay.

This bowhunting video is tough to watch. Period. But it drives home the reason to do everything you can to ensure a quick kill.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources surveys the state’s whitetails by using spotlights. This conservation work is funded by excise taxes paid by archery, firearms and ammunition manufacturers through the Pittman-Robertson Act.

Treestands aren't always the best choice. In fact, ground blinds can keep you hidden and give you a greater advantage. Here’s how to pick a good one and use it effectively.

The quickest way to ruin a whitetail property is with hunting pressure. Here’s a simple and smart way to cut hunting pressure in half without limiting your time in the field.

Bowhunting whitetails on public land is a challenge, and this well-done film takes you through all the single-season highs and lows.

Arrowed in September 2020 in Alberta, the new P&Y Club world record non-typical American elk scored 449 4/8 inches.

Traditional bowhunter Harmon Carson arrowed a huge whitetail buck in his home state of Louisiana, and he captured the entire DIY adventure on video.

Planting your food plot acres in the right mix of cool-season perennials, cool-season annuals and warm-season annuals will give your deer year-round nutrition.

The internet is filled with hunting videos, and it varies from “must-see TV” to a complete waste of time. To help you find something worth watching in your free time, the author reveals five of his favorite lesser-known YouTube hunting channels.

Keystone State bear hunters experienced their 6th best season ever.

Hinge cutting is a quick, inexpensive and relatively easy way to improve deer bedding and browsing habitat on your hunting property.

After letting the arrow fly, a bowhunter watches as a buck's antlers go flying from his head.

Creeping up salmon streams in the fall, bowhunting brown bears in southeast Alaska is not for the faint of heart!

As a South Dakota resident, bowhunter Joe McDougal was lucky enough to draw a once-in-a-lifetime bighorn sheep tag. The video here showcases his short — but spectacular — 2020 bowhunt.

The definition of public land: Land owned by a government, specifically that part of the U.S. public domain subject to sale or disposal under the homestead laws.

Shed hunters have long known that different whitetail deer drop their antlers at different times, depending on a number of factors.

These must-see trail cam pics show that a whitetail buck survived while his opponent was killed and eaten by coyotes.

Several keys for reading the situations and timing your bow shot can help you deal with—or even prevent—shot-spoiling game behavior.