If you come up empty in the western big game draws but still want to bowhunt out West, here are some alternative ways to put a tag in your pocket.

A primary benefit to tagging a big game animal is a freezer full of delicious meat. In the author’s experience — nearly a half century of eating big game steaks — these six species are the best of the best.

Putting a tag for a second species in your pocket on an out-of-state combo bowhunt is exciting, but consider the following points before supersizing your hunt.

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

Here are several tools you’ll want to consider before hiking miles from the nearest road for elk.

A trail cam in the mountains of Utah captures the sights — and hair-raising sounds — of a mountain lion attacking an elk calf.

Across elk country, black bears and elk are intertwined, but how are some of America’s “newest” herds coping with that region’s apex predator?

The setting is a water source in the Colorado wilderness, and two youth hunters are hiding in a pop-up blind. What happens in the hour before dark has to be seen to be believed.

Lynette Jones, who is paralyzed from the chest down, pursues big bull elk in the famed Gila National Forest in New Mexico.

Visiting Big Sky Country is an exhilarating experience. For a hunter, going there with a pair of big game tags in your wallet is pure nirvana.