As bow season approaches, Oak Duke recalls how hunting practices and deer populations have changed over the years.

The Whitetail Hunter STR is lightweight, accurate at what I feel are ethical hunting distances and beyond, and a bargain to boot. If I had a kid, it would be high in the running for their first ...

After Christmas he pulled out his crossbow for the late archery season as he loves spending time in the woods. Rodgers was hunting about 15 minutes from his home on the afternoon of Jan. 9.

When crossbows became legal in 2009 for deer hunting in Michigan, Walker began pondering right away about whether to give it a try. He already had his Darton compound bow tweaked just right to ...

And while the whitetail kill by archery is about the same as last year, of the 21,600 "archery"-felled deer so far this year (the season ends Dec. 31), fully 9,290, or 43%, were taken by crossbows.

Bowhunting season for white-tailed deer opens Saturday, Sept. 30 Bowhunters can expect a plentiful game this season but may have to compete with more hunters compared to last year.

The DNR estimated Wisconsin had 1.51 to 1.84 million deer statewide after the 2022 hunting seasons, a number that likely increased to more than 2 million after fawn births this year.

Archery and Crossbow Deer Season Hunters harvested 32,850 deer with bows and crossbows in 2022, a 4.7 percent increase over the 2021 harvest of 31,362 and 13 percent above the five-year average of ...

MADISON, Wis. (WEAU) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reminding people that archery and crossbow deer hunting season is set to begin Sept. 16.

Wisconsin's archery and crossbow deer hunting seasons open Saturday. The two seasons run through Jan. 5, 2025, except in the 35 counties and metro subunits that have extended seasons until Jan. 31 ...