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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lone mule deer buck stands on a snowy ridge. (Photo by Matt Kaminski / Adobe Stock) I’ve always been a big woods whitetail ...

Montana’s either-sex, either-species deer tag can dismay resident hunters. But with a guest from out state, it can also be a ...

Even a quarter-mile distant, the buck looked huge. His long body stood out black against golden aspens and, when he raised his head, the massive antlers glowed in the first sun of morning. “Just look ...

In the West, the general rifle season for mule deer occurs in October. Utah’s general rifle season begins Oct. 19, while units in southeast Idaho generally start on Oct. 10. Historically these seasons ...

The 56,000 or so people who hunt mule deer east of the Cascades each year, whether they carry a rifle or a bow, could see a major change in the boundaries of many hunt areas in 2026. This fall’s hunts ...

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 ...

Mule deer hunters have reason to be optimistic about this fall, and cautious about the future. Mule deer harvest increased by 30% last fall over the 2023 season, and signs look promising that we could ...

The Boone & Crockett Club has been keeping meticulous records of the continent’s most impressive big game animals for more than a century. In that time, thousands of mulie bucks have made the books, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Missouri Breaks hunters need to carefully check regulations since opportunities to tag mule deer ...