When retired infantry Marine Lieutenant Colonel Mark Mackey slipped into his Bayfield County, Wisconsin tree stand one evening in early October a few years ago, he wasn’t after deer. He was targeting ...

We’re in the heart of another elk season, and hunters are stalking the mountains and backcountry looking to fill their tags—and daydreaming about lovesick bulls screaming their way into bow or gun ...

This story, “Double Trouble,” originally appeared in the September 1998 issue of Outdoor Life. SOMETIME EARLIER that afternoon I had given up. My aching muscles and discouraged spirit signaled the end ...

Clarence Brown with his giant bull elk. When my 18-year-old son Dale and I left camp before dawn that November morning we knew we were headed for trouble. The good elk country is sever­al miles uphill ...

When Beau Brooks, a popular hunting personality, posted a New Year’s Day photo of his dad holding up the rack of an absolutely gigantic bull elk, outdoor social media went wild. In the post, Beau ...

The most important bowhunting skill is the ability to get so close to game that the archer can almost smell it. The bowhunter should hunt silently all the time. I ignored that rule on September 12, ...

A group of ice climbers helped wildlife officials rescue an elk after they found it tangled in a climbing rope on a Colorado mountain. Colorado Parks and Wildlife Southwest Region on X, formerly known ...

The Boone and Crockett Club recently confirmed that a giant bull elk taken by a rifle hunter last Sept. 30 in Utah is a new non-typical world record for American elk.