If you’re a procrastinator and a hunter, and you’re planning on buying an elk or deer tag on the opening day of big game season, you might think twice about waiting that long to buy a tag. Sales of ...

Sales of big game hunting tags, especially elk tags in “capped” elk zones where the Idaho Department of Fish and Game limits the number of tags available for resident and non-resident hunters, are ...

Any DIY elk hunter must learn to sort fact from fiction. Read on for tips straight from the field.

Deer and elk antlers are encased with a soft, skin-like material that is commonly referred to as velvet that is present from ...

BOISE, Idaho - An emergency public hunt opening today in eastern Idaho probably won't destroy all of the farm-raised elk that escaped from a private hunting reserve last month, state officials ...

I’ve hunted elk on public ground across the West for 25 years. I’ve made incredible memories, learned a lot, and punched more tags than I deserve. But I’ve also seen a lot change over that quarter ...

There were 129,155 deer hunters in Idaho last year, and they killed 48,800 deer, for an overall success rate of 38 percent for all general and controlled hunts. That’s down slightly from 2012, when 49 ...

Deer and elk hunting in Idaho will be similar to last year, but hunters in eastern Idaho will likely see firsthand the effects of a brutal winter that hit mule deer hard. Elk herds remain stable to ...

In the past three weeks, sportsmen in Montana and Idaho have killed three protected grizzly bears in apparent cases of self-defense. The latest incident occurred Sept. 1, when two elk hunters in Idaho ...