The Game Commission's board of commissioners are looking at two options to change the start of rifle deer season this year.

Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission will vote on a proposal next week that may change when this year's rifle deer season will ...

Hunting season started in August for some big game species but the heart of the annual event, the major rifle seasons for deer and elk, are still to come. The buck deer season for most units runs from ...

I’ve always been a big woods whitetail hunter. I grew up in New England, where deer hunting meant tracking, still hunting, and roving through endless miles of mixed hardwoods and thick pine forests ...

Whether you are glad to see the 2025 Whitetail deer season end or sad to see it go, your opportunities for big game hunting ...

A Mississippi hunter thought sounds he was hearing were being made by a squirrel, but it was a huge buck that he thought ...

There’s a sweet spot in deer calibers where you get plenty of punch without the kind of recoil that makes you flinch before the shot breaks. Big-bodied whitetails don’t require magnum-level punishment ...

In a rare bit of good news about chronic wasting disease, a new paper shows that harvesting more deer — specifically adult bucks — is better for slowing the spread of the contagious neurological ...