Hunting is changing, and one of the clearest shifts in 2026 is who’s showing up at the range and in the field. More women are not only getting licensed and trained, but becoming some of the most ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Recent license sales indicate about 14% of Minnesota deer hunters are women, with a larger portion — about 29% — of youth licenses going to girls. More tellingly, according to the U.S.

During the last days of the regular firearm season, Mary Hubbard used her Ventum compound bow with Beman carbon hunting arrows and G5 Montec broadhead to drop this deer at 40 yards — not an easy shot.

Dawn DeNicola of Newport poses with the 213-pound 17-point buck she harvested on Nov. 13 in Wildlife Management District 17. The deer earned her first place in the 2025 Maine Women Hunters big buck ...

A Mississippi woman successfully hunted a mature trophy buck she had been tracking on trail cameras. The hunter, who is also a wildlife biologist, passed on two earlier opportunities to shoot the buck ...

Results of the 2025-26 deer season released by the Ohio Division of Wildlife last week certainly inform, although the numbers add up to more than the simple, six-digit sum on a spreadsheet. The ...