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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

This story, “Big Bucks of the Secret Canyon,” appeared in the December 1962 issue of Outdoor Life. Never belittle the beneficial effects of square dancing. My brother Harold met a cattle rancher at a ...

This story, “Old Crooked Horn,” was originally published in the September 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. The big mule deer buck was mad. He wheeled, lowered his head and charged Vaughn Wilkins, who was ...

I had caugt two fleeting glimpses of the big buck. The first was when he went sailing in long bounds across a clearing in pursuit of a doe, and the second was one afternoon when he walked right up to ...

BILLINGS — 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 ...

The regular 2025-2026 deer season will end on January 19, with the closing of the flintlock season. Those hunters that have been unsuccessful will no doubt be thinking about the big buck that got away ...

Hunter dreams of bagging big mule deer buck. Back in high school I spent a lot of time reading "Outdoor Life" and daydreaming about heading out west to hunt big game. I have been pretty fortunate. I ...