The numbers are finally out for last year’s deer season, and according to the state’s Department of Environmental ...

The New York DEC noted that 66.9% of the adult buck harvest were those 2.5 years or older statewide, which is up from 52% a ...

Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, more than 15,000 years ago. The ...

And this buck stood out. The main beams were over 2 feet long and the base measurements were 5-1/2 inches, and two long kickers gave it a score just shy of 150. Every year across whitetail range ...

The state, according to its Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, has “one of the biggest moose and black bear populations in the ‘Lower 48,'” and many people go there to hunt those animals as ...

Easily recognizable by the whitetails for which they earned their name, whitetail deer are one of the most common species of deer in the entire United States. Not as large as other members of the ...

Over its more than 125-year lifetime, the lever-action .30-30 rifle has arguably killed more whitetail deer than any other single cartridge. And with the cartridge’s popularity still quite high, it’s ...

But what happened to white-tailed deer? What drove them nearly to extinction, and then what brought them back from the brink?

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I am particularly amazed at how well deer have adapted to living in or around the many housing developments now so common in much of their forest homes. The whitetail is a ruminant, much like our ...

The game commission began investigating the case after receiving a tip concerning the unlawful taking of large whitetail bucks over a span of years. The charges filed involve deer that were taken out ...