Some gear changes feel temporary. This one often sounds permanent. Talk to deer hunters who made the jump from a compound bow to a crossbow, and a pattern shows up fast: many say the switch gave them ...

The increased freedom to use crossbows to hunt deer is drawing more people into the sport in Minnesota, particularly youth hunters, according to the Department of Natural Resources. License sales data ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All of a sudden, archery season will be upon us. Like a frost in the morning follows a warm, Indian Summer afternoon. Seems like ...

The Department of Natural Resources has lowered bag limits in 38 deer hunting permit areas for the 2023 season, a response to the scarcity of whitetails in northern Minnesota. DNR Big Game Program ...

Four months after all Minnesota archers could legally deploy crossbows to kill deer, they certainly have. Fred Bear must be tossing and turning in his grave. Bear, who died in 1988, was modern bow ...

Misty Stoll scans the area for movement as she waits for a deer to pass her blind during archery season. Expanded use of a crossbow for hunting appears to be popular with Minnesota deer hunters. The ...

In May 2023, near the end of that year’s legislative session, a conference committee deal was struck to allow any licensed Minnesota archer to hunt deer with a crossbow. The proposal never was heard ...

Crossbows are popular with New York’s deer hunters according to recent data from the state Department of Environmental Conservation. DEC this week released its annual whitetail deer harvest estimates ...

The Iowa House approved a measure Wednesday to expand crossbow hunting of deer by allowing residents to use crossbows during the late hunting season, from Dec. 17 to Jan. 10. They would not be ...

Perhaps the most difficult part about crossbow hunting these days is … well … hunting for a crossbow. The Mission Sub-1 XR should make that hunt a little easier ...