After three years and two stalks, Palomo arrowed the big buck and packed him out solo. Chris Palomo was glassing familiar terrain for blacktail deer high on a northern canyon ridge at 7 a.m. on Aug.

Scott Haugen rattled his first blacktail deer 31 years ago using a pair of old, bleached antlers found at his grandmother’s house. The Oregon hunter and author of “Trophy Blacktails” says three ...

Haugen devoted three seasons to bowhunting this Columbia blacktail, the biggest bodied buck he’s taken. He laid eyes on it one time, moments before darkness fell on this Thanksgiving day. Yahoo is ...

WASHOUGAL — When Ray Croswell hunts for blacktail deer, he plans on being successful. At age 74, he’s killed more than 80 deer — including 55 blacktail — so his methods have passed the test of time.

October 2016 will go down as one of the best years for blacktail deer hunting in recent memory. Unlike previous years, the weather has been excellent. We’ve had significant rainfall, wind and cool ...

HUNTING -- Whitetail bucks are famous for taking advantage of thick cover to live long and grow big racks. But even the white-tailed deer of Eastern Washington and North Idaho could take a lesson from ...

Chris Palomo was glassing familiar terrain for blacktail deer high on a northern canyon ridge at 7 a.m. on Aug. 19. The 29-year-old was looking for an elusive giant Columbia blacktail he’d hunted the ...

HUNTING — Whitetail bucks are famous for taking advantage of thick cover to live long and grow big racks. But even the white-tailed deer of Eastern Washington and North Idaho could take a lesson from ...