Big Game

Would you yank an item from a shark's mouth to keep it from choking? Two Canadian men did just that and saved a Greenland shark from a moose carcass.

Wildlife commissioners set a quota of 20 bears for 2013. The season ends Dec. 31 unless 20 bears are killed before then.

At least 11 wolves have been killed during the wolf hunt in the Upper Peninsula, putting the state on pace to meet the limit for Michigan's first wolf hunt in decades, officials said.

There's a population explosion of large, wild animals in the Virginia woods, and it's not the cute, doe-eyed kind that conjures images of Bambi.

The hunting seasons for pheasant, sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge and ruffed grouse close statewide on Jan. 5.

A new Montana law that allows for the salvage of road-killed wildlife for food became effective last month.

When hunting mature bucks, sometimes going all-in is the answer.

Some areas have slight outbreaks and others have all-out epidemics of the illness. Worse yet, if your dog comes into contact with another infected canine, it could spread depending on the mange variety.

Two hunters leave their stand to retrieve a fallen deer. When they reach the animal not every thing is what it seems.

Deer hunters are fanning out across West Virginia for the start of the two-week gun season.

"This isn't about killing deer," said hunt organizer Brian Green. "It's about showing these guys there are people in this country who give a damn about what they're fighting for."

Gov. Scott Walker's deer hunt has come up empty.

Two men face fish and wildlife violations and a felony charge for allegedly shooting at a deer decoy and leading Indiana conservation officers on a pursuit.

Deer hunters suffer from information overload these days — but it’s time to un-learn some of that info and break out of old habits.

Part of the Wilder Forest in May Township is slated to eventually open to the public, but some neighbors aren't happy it could allow hunting and trapping.

The shooting range includes facilities for rimfire firearm, shotgun, archery, pellet gun and slingshot.

Global warming keeping things too warm in your area? Deer hunting in unusually hot weather doesn’t have to be unproductive.

Oklahoma's Grand National Quail Hunt is about hunting, quail and economics.

Staying comfortable afield has never been easier thanks in no small measure to this year’s extensive array of technologically advanced hunting clothing.

Watch as a hunter rescues a doe from a frozen Minnesota lake.

The moose population in Michigan's Upper Peninsula is growing more slowly than before, possibly because of conditions related to a warming climate, scientists say.

Is the word "redneck" an offensive slur? A Florida school thought so and made a student change out of his Duck Dynasty shirt that used it.

Leaders in a western Illinois community have signed off on a trial deer hunting season to cut down on the community's growing deer population.

A state lawmaker is proposing a $25 bounty on coyotes to deal with what he calls an infestation in northeastern Pennsylvania.

A trooper searched the car and found no drugs. But two duffel bags with 20 pounds of marijuana were located about 10 feet away near a tree.

Wildlife officials have been encouraging hunters in southern Wisconsin to have deer tested for chronic wasting disease amid signs the illness is increasing.

Ohio's Department of Natural Resources says the Division of Wildlife will extend its toll-free general hunting information hotline during the state's deer-gun hunting seasons.

State Sen. Ernie Chambers has warned he will oppose all Nebraska Game and Parks Commission requests as long as the agency allows mountain lions to be hunted.

West Virginians' fascination with guns has been well documented. Now so has their fascination with bows and arrows.