My first Mule deer buck taken in early November, somewhere up Tamarack Creek. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan) A vibrant rainbow appears the morning of the hunt. Where the colors touch the ...

Thanks to my new friend Jeff Sipe of Nosler, who has hunted the West extensively, I was able to follow up with a killing shot in a matter of minutes. We saw the buck bed down and started creeping ...

When bowhunter Bill Barcus finally tags his first buck, he faces a three-mile packout and considers leaving the antlers behind.

A boy’s first buck, taken while hunting with his dad, is made even more memorable by the others hunting on the same public land.