WITH HIS ANTLERS FLASHING in the sun­ light, the buck bounded out of the hemlocks. I pulled the longbow to full draw as the deer ran broadside to me, 35 yards away, but a brush pile between us blocked ...

While it’s rare to get any buck during Pennsylvania’s flintlock season, two hunters harvested deer with massive antlers this winter.

The statewide archery and flintlock seasons open on Dec. 26 and run through Jan. 19. In Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) 2B, ...

Kip Adams, chief conservation officer of the National Deer Association and a Pennsylvania deer hunter, has been seeing bigger bucks in Pennsylvania over the years.

Here's why Pennsylvania has been adding upwards of 100 white-tailed deer to its record books in recent years, and where the biggest of all were harvested.

Pennsylvania bowhunters, for the first time in recorded history, tagged more bucks last season than firearms hunters. And a substantial majority of those bowhunter-killed bucks were shot with ...

If you’re an archery hunter in Pennsylvania, now is the best time of the year. Deer are entering their breeding season, known as the rut, which means bucks are busy chasing off smaller bucks and ...

Buck bolted from brushpile (A), dropped at my first shot (B). I missed with the next shot, and he went out of sight over knoll (C). Moments later, I put him down for good on far hillside (D) THE FIRST ...

Something happened to me as a Pennsylvania deer hunter the last three years. I re-learned that it’s fun. In my formative ...

This story, “The Giant of Newcomer Hollow,” appeared in the February 1966 issue of Outdoor Life. THE FIRST RAYS of daylight were beginning to reveal the dark outline of the eastern ridge as I pulled ...