Utah Mule Deer Forecast

Utah Mule Deer Forecast

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologists estimate that there are just over 370,000 mule deer in Utah, which is about 100,000 additional deer than were in the state in 2011. “Over the last three years, we’ve had the highest deer numbers in Utah in 25 years,” DWR...
Montana Cautions Bird Hunters: Be Bear Aware

Montana Cautions Bird Hunters: Be Bear Aware

Bird hunters around Montana, particularly those in the western half of the state, should be “bear aware” and prepared for an encounter with a grizzly bear. In recent years, grizzly bear populations have expanded into areas where they haven’t been for...
What’s A Good Pronghorn Cartridge?

What’s A Good Pronghorn Cartridge?

Q:  Larry, I need a good pronghorn cartridge. I’m from the Midwest and have hunted big game only with slugs.  I was recently invited to hunt antelope with friends in Wyoming, so I’m looking for a good rifle and cartridge to use.  At home, I can hunt with only slugs...
The Coues Deer; Very Small, But A Very Big Prize

The Coues Deer; Very Small, But A Very Big Prize

Frontier Army surgeon, naturalist and hunter, Dr. Elliott Coues, never actually collected a Coues deer. In 1874, Dr. Joseph Rothrock, another Army Surgeon, collected and saved two specimens from the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson, Arizona. He stated correctly that...
Rifles Now Permanently Allowed For Hunting Here

Rifles Now Permanently Allowed For Hunting Here

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced that Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently signed a law permanently adding rifles to the list of implements authorized for big game hunting in Orleans County and a portion of Broome County...
CWD Found In Deer West Of Continental Divide

CWD Found In Deer West Of Continental Divide

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer hunt area 152, approximately 12 miles west of Bondurant on Willow Creek. The mule deer buck that tested positive was hunter-harvested. This is the first time CWD has been found in...
SC All-Time Antler Records Available

SC All-Time Antler Records Available

The complete listing of South Carolina’s antler records (pdf) is now available to the public online. The South Carolina white-tailed deer Antler Records Program was initiated in the spring of 1974 and since that time, 7,469 sets of antlers (7,167 typical and 302...
ELLIOTT COUES: Surgeon, Naturalist, Hunter And His Deer

ELLIOTT COUES: Surgeon, Naturalist, Hunter And His Deer

Many of you may have heard Coues deer or the name Elliott Coues mispronounced as coos, cooz, cooeys or something else other than properly as “cows,” as in “wait ’til the cows come home.”  Here in Arizona, he is known as the namesake of the diminutive but highly prized...