Like a boomerang more than an arrow, the crossbow controversy is coming back to the Legislature. Some background: In May 2023, near the end of that year’s legislative session, a conference committee ...

Speaking to about 80 farmers who voiced frustration with crop damage caused by whitetail deer, the executive director of the ...

The 2024-25 deer count ended at 238,137, the fourth-highest ever. Moreover, the resident adult hunter success rate, a number ...

Despite bouts of extreme weather the harvest during Kentucky’s 2024 white-tailed deer season reached a five year high, and ...

I know CWD can be contentious but most people I have told so far have had the same reaction: ‘How do I get my deer tested?’" ...

I’ve had a few similar encounters since, and I’ve gotten pictures of sleeping bucks on my trail cameras too. Each instance has been a rare window into a part of whitetail buck behavior many ...

A Massachusetts bowhunter managed to squeeze in a short public-land hunt after work one day. He ended up arrowing a big ...

Meanwhile, preliminary statewide harvest numbers from last fall’s hunts suggest about 170,000 whitetails were felled by firearm, archery (including ... whitetail buck had been properly ...

More deer hunters this year will be required to submit tissue samples for CWD testing now that the deer disease has cropped up for the first time in western Hennepin County and in Clay County ...

The infected deer, based on its profile, is considered to be an “anchor” member of the area’s whitetail community ... Ohio’s deer archery season concludes 30 minutes after sunset on ...

(As with the larger report, the trends we’ve focused on revolve around whitetails in the U.S.) Here are some of those trends, courtesy of the 2025 NDA Deer Report. 1. Hunters in the U.S. Are Shooting ...