The ultra-long distance migrating mule deer known as Deer 255 has died. Researchers tracked her across 3,300 miles since 2016. Here she is shown with her twin fawns in a fall 2020 migration stopover ...

This story, “High in the Velvet,” appeared in the August 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. I SELDOM PLAN a hunt without knowing just what I’m letting myself in for. With this trip, though, I almost bit off ...

At the start of 2023 I made it a goal to kill a high country archery mule deer, and I knew I had a lot of work ahead of me going into the summer. I started my summer scouting around mid-July and was ...

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 ...

No matter what Alice Cooper might have suggested, school's not out for the summer. The über-scary heavy metal rocker might never be a deer hunter but even he would learn a thing or two during the ...

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 ...

Mule deer graze in sagebrush during the fall 2023 migration near the Prospect Mountains in western Wyoming. New UW research shows that cheatgrass and other invasive plants are threatening deer habitat ...