Fred Mercer shot a massive bull elk on a snow mountain in Montana. At the time, it was the second biggest elk ever taken by a hunter. I woke up before daylight, aware that it was very cold in the tent ...

As I got a fire burning with pages torn from an old paperback, my brother, Kevin, shuffled down the hill to the creek. The book was The Moviegoer, and I’d read about a third, so there was plenty of ...

The 2026 elk hunt application period for Wisconsin residents is expected to open with the new license year on March 1 and run ...

Hunting season started in August for some big game species but the heart of the annual event, the major rifle seasons for deer and elk, are still to come. The buck deer season for most units runs from ...

Knowing this, Amelia's father Thomas Shurgar treated her to an elk hunt in New Mexico for her 16th birthday, but he didn't know if she would even want to go. "I didn't know I was going until the last ...

Elk hunter Ben McArthur said he appreciates availability of late-season cow elk tags in Wyoming as it's challenging. “It's ...

The Steyr Scout II is the latest version of the Steyr Scout Rifle, which the company designed with input from former Marine and Gunsite Academy founder Jeff Cooper. Intended as a general purpose rifle ...

Longtime bowhunter and Hoyt pro staffer Casey Brooks has always dreamed of tagging a world-record elk. And on Dec. 31, he killed an absolute giant of a Rocky Mountain bull that has the potential to ...

The afternoon of November 12 was unseasonably warm in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Temperatures exceeded 60 degrees. Lush, green rye grass that should have just been sprouting was ankle-deep. I barely ...

Having applied for a 2024 Pennsylvania Game Commission elk tag, one may have guessed that Donnie Matter and his family would have spent the last Saturday in July at the Elk Expo in Benezette. Well, ...