After three years and two stalks, Palomo arrowed the big buck and packed him out solo. Chris Palomo was glassing familiar terrain for blacktail deer high on a northern canyon ridge at 7 a.m. on Aug.

A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

Darkness consumed the Douglas fir forest in Oregon’s Cascade Range. Unloading the rifle, I headed for the truck. It was pouring rain and windy. Perfect blacktail deer hunting conditions, but the ...

Neighbors near McMinnville captured photos of a rare piebald blacktail deer in February. Kathleen Verigin caught the piebald deer on camera. “It’s not unusual to see lots of deer” in the area, Verigin ...

Chris Palomo was glassing familiar terrain for blacktail deer high on a northern canyon ridge at 7 a.m. on Aug. 19. The 29-year-old was looking for an elusive giant Columbia blacktail he’d hunted the ...