In the mountain west, mule deer typically shed from January into March, but elk (which we will bring into the mix here because shed hunting for their antlers is so popular) shed later, typically ...

Officials found the implicating remains in a nearby garbage dump. Couple faces massive fine after shocking poaching cover-up ...

Antler shed hunting Intentionally looking for antlers dropped by deer, or “shed hunting,” has grown in popularity and interest. People have trained dogs specifically to search for antlers ...

By late winter, in areas with heavy hunting pressure, some deer retreat deeper into the big woods. If these deep-woods pockets provide food sources, such as remaining red oak acorns, woody browse, and ...

The items up for auction include hundreds of antlers from mule deer and elk, many of them still attached to the skull. Photos courtesy Utah DWR The DWR held a public preview for the items yesterday in ...

I’ve been hunting in the woods lately ... its trunk raw and exposed. Deer passed here, and maybe one dropped their antlers not too long ago. I notice where the deer stirred up the forest ...

Gary Mulcahey / NMNH Some 17,000 years ago, on a wall of Lascaux cave in southwestern France, an artist made a painting of a deer with fantastically elongated antlers. To modern eyes, it looks ...

More than 42,000 hunters in North Dakota took about 23,000 deer during the 2024 gun hunting season ... deer – 4,884 white-tailed deer and 910 mule deer – for a success rate of 26%.