“shot a deer”

In Oregon’s Coast Range last year, the author pursued the state’s rarest deer: the Columbian whitetail. The hunt marked a rare double bonus, as far as he was concerned: a chance to hunt a species he’d never hunted in a state he’d never hunted.

This latest Member's Hunt comes from Mark Newton of Jersey Shore, Pa.

Check out these monster bucks taken throughout the United States.

What happens after you pull the trigger depends on your bullet choice. Choose wisely.

Just about every case shape imaginable has been modified to hold both 7mm and .30-caliber bullets, but it was gunwriter Layne Simpson who saw a gap in the lineup: there was no 7mm cartridge based on a full-length .375 H&H case. In 1979, Simpson took the excellent 8mm Remington Magnum and necked it down to hold 7mm bullets, giving his wildcat the name “Shooting Times Westerner.”

Gross booners are hard to come by. Here are the stories behind seven of them.

If you want your neck of the woods to be ready for deer hunting this fall, start taking care of these essential chores now.

To coax skeptics into shooting sports, ya gotta show ’em a good time.

While large, multi-directional ears are formidable tools in a whitetail's bag of tricks, new studies are providing insight into the range, complexity—and limits—of deer hearing.