Freaks of nature in the whitetail deer world are often in the eye of the beholder. To put it another way, one man’s freak is another man’s trophy. For some hunters, a rack with multiple points jutting ...

For a couple of years, Alex Stottle of Mifflintown has had his eye on a buck with a wide rack, and this year, he finally got him. Stottle, 61, shot the 7-point buck with a 26¼-inch outside spread ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania has a new record for a typical deer taken by a firearm, but the story has a twist. The record-setting white-tail buck was actually taken in the early 1960's in ...

Several Central Pennsylvania hunters connected with their bucks of a lifetime during the rifle hunting season for deer, which continues through Saturday. Photos of some of those hunters make up the ...

JIMMY LYNN WOKE UP grinning in his tent on Sept. 23. He was eight miles deep in Wyoming’s Hoback range, and he’d killed a big 6×6 mule deer the day before. Now he had two days to wait for his ride out ...

A stockpile of illegal deer racks was found behind a York County home after a tip was called in by a concerned citizen who identified “suspicious hunting practices.” That’s according to Bert ...

EAGLE COUNTY — Mule deer got their name because of their large mule-like ears. They are also characterized by the antlers sported by the males (bucks). Mule deer antlers are dichotomous or bifurcated, ...

NEWFOLDEN, Minn. — Stuart Sethre figures he’s shot about 75 deer, give or take, over the years, but the longtime hunter came up short in 2019 and didn’t fill a tag. He wasted little time changing that ...

This record was almost lost to history. The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently released its new Big Game Records book, which contained a surprising entry. While most of the new records were ...

A gigantic buck shot Dec. 10, 2025, in Dane County could rank among the top whitetail deer of its kind ever killed in ...

Marlin Laidlaw adjusts the mount of the Jordan Buck, once the world record typical whitetail and current No. 2, at the exhibit of the Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...

For Sheldon Grothaus, deer are a significant part of his life. "I raise them and hunt them and sell ranches with deer on them," said Grothaus, who owns Texas Ranch Sales in Hondo and two ranches were ...