The best way to analyze a bear to determine whether it’s a mature animal that you want to kill or a younger bear that should be passed up is to study these physical traits.

Few things fascinate hunters more than the bright scars known as buck rubs. Here's a list of insights about deer and the sign they leave behind.

Hunting squirrels by land is the common approach, but bagging the furry critters from a boat can be just as effective. Plus it's, you know, kind of a blast.

Spring turkey season might be a few months off, but getting out there early to find where the birds are will pay off when the pressure mounts.

If you want to extend your big game hunting, you don’t have to wait until next fall. One way to extend your big game hunting is to book a trip with an outfitter who offers hunts for exotics.

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.

Wildlife officials considered the hunt a success, with the tally of 298 bears taken — very close to top range of 320 animals they hoped to harvest on this, the first bear hunt in the state in over 20 years.

These insights into rabbit biology and hunting should be of interest to hunters who pursue cottontails anywhere they are found.