If your wallet holds a western mule deer tag, you’re in for some great hunting this month. November is one of my favorite time frames to hunt the muleys with a rifle or archery tackle. Sweetening the ...

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 ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department contracted with HDNR Consulting LLC, a Colorado firm, to conduct a human dimensions survey of Badlands archery and gun hunters. The North Dakota Game and Fish ...

From unsullied alpine basins to sage-dappled plains and brushy creeks bordering agriculture, mule deer roam much of the West, and they’re one of the most fantastic deer species you can pursue. If ...

Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission will decide whether to make major changes to the boundaries of some mule deer hunts in Eastern and Central Oregon starting in 2026, and to reduce the number of ...

Growing up in western North Dakota, Angelo Vournas developed a passion for archery hunting in the Badlands at an early age. “My mom would call into school at noon and say I was sick, so I’d go down to ...

Oregon’s Fish and Wildlife Commission will decide Sept. 12 whether to make major changes to the boundaries of some mule deer hunts in Eastern and Central Oregon starting in 2026, and to reduce the ...

Overall hunter success was 57% in 2025.

Clark "Bart" Bartkowski's mule deer hunt of a lifetime happened this year after drawing one of the coveted mule deer permits for the East Fork of the Bitterroot. The decision nearly 20 years ago that ...