Big Game

Knowing deer's messaging system of scents and scrapes can be a big benefit in the woods.

We run down the top 15 stories for 2015 in what you, the reader, made a record-breaking year at Grand View Outdoors.

Searching for and patterning young does — yearlings and even fawns in healthy herds — can lead you to the heaviest bucks still alive and breeding in December and January.

HSUS seems to care more for animal rights activities than animal shelters, according to statistics.

A deer caused quite a stir at a northwestern Pennsylvania school when it came crashing through a window to its cafeteria last weekend.

Trying to jump-shoot a buck can be a good tactic to use in the latter part of the season when mature bucks tend to hunker down and hide when people walk near them.

Dallas hunter scores once-in-a-lifetime trophy, taking ultra-rare melanistic buck.

Deer provides an “interesting alarm clock” for one Arkansas couple, who recorded the intrusion.

Picture of Pennsylvania nun with trophy kill faces criticism after her Roman Catholic diocese posted it on Facebook.

Curtis Russell got the surprise of his life when he bagged a 22-point whitetail doe.

The Hunting Lease Network is an affordable way to find prime hunting land when you don't have your own.

Passengers are OK after a rare collision on a runway between a plane and a deer.

A shortage in acorns and other foods that black bears eat could send the animals into hibernation early and potentially hurt the upcoming firearm hunting season, West Virginia wildlife officials said.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is giving hunters an assist this year, using bright yellow-and-green signs to steer them to sections of state game lands where it is working to restore the forest vegetation that attracts deer.

Yellowstone National Park proposes to kill roughly 1,000 wild bison this winter, mostly calves and females, as officials seek to reduce the animals' annual migration into Montana.

They weren't on the agenda when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission voted Nov. 9 to take wolves off the state's endangered species list, but Oregon's elk and deer population likely will be key factors in wolf management decisions in the years ahead.

Northwest New Jersey has the highest concentration of black bears within their range and state officials are doing something about it.