The author shot his first Columbia blacktail 49 years ago and he ranks them among North America’s most challenging big game ...

Near or at dark, a thick-necked 8- or IO-pointer might charge out into the field, scatter the subdominant bucks like quail ...

Chris Palomo was glassing familiar terrain for blacktail deer high on a northern canyon ridge at 7 a.m. on Aug. 19. The 29-year-old was looking for an elusive giant Columbia blacktail he’d hunted the ...

A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

White-tailed deer are things of beauty with graceful bodies and muscular builds. When you're talking about mature bucks, they become majestic with large antlers and tines that sweep upward. But nature ...

The general rifle hunting season for Western Washington blacktail deer will start Saturday and run through the end of the month. Hunters across Southwest Washington will head into the woods to try and ...

The “Let Young Bucks Go, Watch Them Grow” hunter campaign was started by the state Department of Environmental Conservation in 2016 – the result of a long process of examining hunter interest in ...

A 10-point buck sought sanctuary inside a southern Michigan church on opening day of the state's firearm deer hunting season. Pastors at Grace Christian Fellowship in Sturgis encountered the buck ...

Pennsylvania hunters had a successful year of deer hunting as they shot an estimated 12% more than in the previous hunting year. The Pennsylvania Game Commission reported hunters killed an estimated ...

As Thanksgiving looms near, many whitetail hunters have already seen the peak of their region's rut activity come and go. Regardless, late November and early December can be an extremely productive ...

COOS BAY, Ore. — Following a lengthy investigation, Oregon Fish & Wildlife Troopers have identified and apprehended the suspect who illegally killed three young deer in Coos Bay. On March 23, 2021, ...