Wildlife experts have been predicting a mule deer extinction for decades. Luckily, no one seems to have told the deer ...

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 ...

On that day two weekends ago, 13-year-old Lyndi Ishler of Petty Creek and 30-year-old Oby Schulz of Evaro each bagged magnificent trophy mule deer bucks. For Ishler, a seventh-grade student at ...

I’VE GOT a shoulder mount of a fine 4×4 mule deer buck on my wall, and if I look at him from just the right angle, I’ll swear that he’s wearing a slight smirk. Shooting that buck was like backlashing ...

This story, “Rookie Season: Brett Favre’s First Mule Deer,” was first published in Outdoor Life on Sept. 24, 2012. Granby, Colorado, isn’t a particularly notable mountain town. Don’t get me wrong, ...

Another 18,094 put in for 25 permits in the adjoining mule deer trophy Hunting District 261. With his permit in hand, Bartkowski prepared himself all summer long for what he was certain could be a ...

Most hunters would agree that hunting the rut for whitetails and mule deer is the perfect time to see big bucks. But the rut can be a most elusive thing. We know the breeding season in this part of ...

Public land hunting removes every advantage except preparation. This mule deer hunt unfolds across distance, elevation, and ...

Over the past four archery seasons, I’ve chased plains mule deer in South Dakota with no success. I struck out on every stalk, whether it was because the wind swirled or a deer busted me during my ...

Take a gander at the Boone and Crockett record books for Montana nontypical mule deer and you'll note that many of the entries were made 20, 30, even 80 years ago. For a number of reasons - drought, ...