Big Game

During firearm whitetail season, a fisherman is out in his canoe on a lengthy float trip when he hears a distant gunshot. You won’t believe what happens next.

Mark Drury of Drury Outdoors TV fame is gun hunting with his mom, and she has a close encounter with a monster buck. But the buck lives for another day!

With all due respect to those bowhunters who have killed giant bucks this deer season, my No. 1 whitetail story for 2023 is a public land doe.

Burmese Python in Florida lays a record clutch of 96 eggs, with 83 of them hatching.

Throughout much of the Midwest, Halloween marks the start of the best whitetail deer hunting of the season. Do you have realistic expectations for the next couple of weeks?

Researchers are trapping black bears and affixing GPS tracking collars to study the bruins in West Texas, where numbers are small but growing.

Never used a deer decoy? Here are six tips for luring a buck into shooting range. At times a decoy works so well that it feels like cheating!

Global warming may be fact, it may be fiction — but it’s been really hot during the whitetail rut the past couple of seasons. Here’s how to beat it.

You’ll almost certainly never be in this situation, so a warning of “Don’t try this at home” isn’t needed. Just watch this moose video and be amazed.

When a deer is under your treestand, it’s critical to know where to aim for your arrow to penetrate both lungs.

How to make your next treestand or ground blind disappear right before a whitetail’s eyes.

An Oregon woman and man received stiff penalties for killing two black bear cubs in 2022.

Arizona man mauled, killed in rare attack by a black bear in Prescott, about 100 miles northwest of Phoenix.

Beating the dreaded “October lull” requires understanding the massive changes in the whitetail woods, then adjusting your strategy to stay one step ahead of your quarry.

A Colorado man relaxing in a hammock was bitten by a black bear snooping around a campground late at night.

When it comes to cooking venison backstrap over an open fire, Dan Fitzgerald demonstrates a unique — and surprising — technique.

When elk hunting, knowing when to draw your bow is just as important as knowing when to shoot.