Big Game

The advantages of driving verses walking to your treestand are great. Use the engine noise and headlights for cover. Plus, tips for recovering deer, wind and treestand location and food-plot hunting.

Research suggests that deer, especially mature bucks, know when a stand is being overhunted.

Conflicts between grizzly bears and humans are on the rise, and thanks to animal rights kooks, the number of people dying because of problem bears is likely to increase even more.

Following a special panel judging session, the Pope and Young Club recently announced a new archery World Record Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.

Consider whitetail wintertime grocery needs and give your herd the boost it needs to make it through the icy months.

Non-native, invasive plants don’t just overwhelm native plant communities. They rob deer habitat of valuable food sources.

Some bucks are dropping antlers early, especially in the Midwest. Observant hunters may know why, especially if they also happen to be farmers who were stuck on their combines well into November.

Wildlife biologists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife are investigating what appears to be a significant mortality event associated with respiratory disease among the San Gorgonio desert bighorn sheep population in Riverside County.

If you’re looking to be a successful hunter or tracker, you must first learn to recognize animal sign, including poop. There’s a story in every dropping: what an animal is eating, where an animal is going or where it’s been.

While bolt-action and, more recently, AR-platform rifles now dominate the whitetail woods, lever-action rifles for deer hunting still have their place. More recently, they've even gained in popularity.

The use of these hunting lures is now under scrutiny. Is your state regulating deer urine products? Are they legal or illegal in your state?

Texas isn’t just a great whitetail destination. Plenty of wide-racked muleys lurk in the state’s northern half, where spot-and-stalk opportunities abound.

An Arizona archer heads to Kansas for the hunt of a lifetime. Will a never-say-die attitude be enough? Plus, a bonus: tips for calling deer.

Did your 2018 whitetail season come to close with an unpunched deer tag? If so, then it’s time to use this simple and affordable decoying trick to change your luck next archery season.

A black bear found dead in North Carolina tested positive for rabies — the first known case of a rabies positive black bear in the state.

Donning blaze orange and bowhunting deer during late rifle season can offer its own set of opportunities, especially in prime whitetail country.

Believe it or not, it’s not too early to begin planning for the fall 2019 whitetail deer season, especially when it comes to food plots.

If you love pursuing bugling bull elk in America, then take that passion international and book a rut hunt for roaring New Zealand red stag.

Few bonds are as strong as those formed in the bowhunting woods.

A born-and-bred Arkansas archer discovers that big-bodied Canada whitetails look and act just a tad differently than deer in his home state.

How do you find whitetails after gun season has made them skittish? Here is where to look.

Three successful bowhunters share their tactics for taking late-season whitetails.

The Trump Administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling that ended the country's first grizzly bear hunts in four decades and put the bruins back under endangered species protection.

We consider the relationship between reindeer and caribou, while evaluating the research on a reindeer's ability to fly. And how do we define the act of flying anyway? What is it really?

Big-timber whitetails of the rugged Northwest are ready and waiting. Are you up for the ultimate archery whitetail challenge?

From an article examining the best time to deer hunt to hot new bow reviews for the upcoming year, these were your Top 10 favorite Grand View Outdoors stories of 2018.

From The New York Times’ coverage of CWD to the eight best new deer rifles for extreme conditions, these were your Top 10 favorite Whitetail Journal stories of 2018.

A Wyoming hunter has been fined $25,500 for killing a grizzly bear following an investigation by state wildlife officials.

What determines your shoot or don’t shoot decisions? Consider these debatable shot angles — what would you do?