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A Week In Hunting Camp: The Mule Deer Highway Editor’s Note: People tell stories at every hunting camp. At the F&S hunting camp, which you’ve just stepped into (put your feet up), all we do is ...

A few seasons of hunting mule deer in the West has turned at least one big woods whitetail hunter into a lifelong muley man. By Kubie Brown. Published Jan 10, 2025 2:20 PM EST. For hunters who like to ...

If the “mule deer vs. whitetail deer” game were about who would win in a fight, muleys might take the prize. Mule deer will get a little bigger than whitetails, especially leading up to the rut. Mule ...

Invasive mule deer are pushing native plants to the brink on Catalina Island. Officials want to hunt animals from helicopters. Sharpshooters in helicopters to hunt California deer - Los Angeles Times ...

Harvests of mule deer in Wyoming have dropped by a significant amount since the early 1990s, according to Wyoming Game and Fish Department data. Jacob W. Frank, National Park Service Facebook ...

The Catalina Island Conservancy, which controls 88% of the island, announced Wednesday it was scrapping plans to eradicate the non-native mule deer population by shooting them from helicopters ...

In the West, the general rifle season for mule deer occurs in October. Utah’s general rifle season begins Oct. 19, while units in southeast Idaho generally start on Oct. 10. Historically these ...

While the mule deer has 99 problems, it’s too early to tell if the whitetail is one, at least in a direct competition, though there has certainly been pearl clutching on the matter.

Mule deer counts in the northern hunting districts are still below long-term average but stable and trending higher. Fawn to adult ratios are also trending higher.

The 56,000 or so people who hunt mule deer east of the Cascades each year, whether they carry a rifle or a bow, could see a major change in the boundaries of many hunt areas in 2026. This fall’s ...

According to an FWP Interoffice Memorandum dated 5/6/2024, the “total Region 6 mule deer harvest in 2023 was estimated at 9,986, 28% above the 26-year average” and — for the first time ever ...