Most whitetail bucks reach their prime antler growth potential between ... like those where Heffelfinger manages mule deer and Coues deer. “We have two different weather regimes here,” he notes. “With ...

Chester Veach was on his first ever deer hunt when he killed what would become the largest nontypical buck ever tagged in the ...

Slightly more than half of deer hunters in North Dakota filled their tag in 2024, unchanged from the previous year.

Winter survival is typically the biggest single factor affecting mule deer herds, and the long-term average is about 60% of fawns surviving their first winter, but during hard winters that can be ...

“We very rarely see elk populations affected by a hard winter. But we see that fairly often with mule deer,” said Fish and ...

The target resembles a large whitetail buck and comes with universal scoring ... including elk, axis deer, mule deer, and more. After familiarizing myself with the app (which takes about 10 ...

In Wyoming, 14% of all deer and elk tested last year were positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Wyoming Game and ...

It’s still a little early for biologists to read the tea leaves and know how the 2024-25 winter survival will affect this fall’s hunts, so stayed tuned for more on that down the road.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Health Laboratory tested 5,276 samples for chronic wasting disease, and 726 came back positive — 13.7% statewide — and saw CWD prevalence for ...

Hunter success for antlered white-tailed deer in 2024 was 49% and 44% for antlerless whitetails. Mule deer buck success was 80% and 78% for antlerless mule deer. Hunters with any-antlered or any ...

Mule deer populations in some parts of Wyoming have been declining for decades. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) ...

As mule deer populations continue to decline across the West, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) says it will ...