Darkness consumed the Douglas fir forest in Oregon’s Cascade Range. Unloading the rifle, I headed for the truck. It was pouring rain and windy. Perfect blacktail deer hunting conditions, but the ...

Chris Palomo was glassing familiar terrain for blacktail deer high on a northern canyon ridge at 7 a.m. on Aug. 19. The 29-year-old was looking for an elusive giant Columbia blacktail he’d hunted the ...

CRANBROOK - British Columbia is introducing an expanded deer hunt in the province’s southeast in an attempt to reduce the spread of chronic wasting disease. The Ministry of Water, Land and Resource ...

A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

Haugen devoted three seasons to bowhunting this Columbia blacktail, the biggest bodied buck he’s taken. He laid eyes on it one time, moments before darkness fell on this Thanksgiving day. Darkness ...