Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's a new year and deer season has been going on in one form or another for months in Mississippi. It's a liberal framework with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you want to harvest a big, mature buck, Mississippi is the place to hunt. Year after year, Mississippi has been recognized by ...

The white-tailed deer became Mississippi’s official state land mammal in 1974, but its connection to the state reaches far beyond a legislative vote. The species reflects a long history of recovery ...

Mississippi's deer population is bigger than ever before, prompting state officials to encourage hunters to catch an extra target total this year. Mississippi is home to more than 1.5 million deer, a ...

A bill requiring mandatory reporting of all deer harvested by hunters has passed in the Mississippi House of Representatives.

A Mississippi teenager successfully hunted a large buck he had been tracking for two years. The teen was praying to his late grandfather moments before the deer appeared. After adjusting his hunting ...

Mississippi leads the nation in harvesting mature bucks (three years or older), with 80% of harvested bucks meeting this criteria. Hunters in Mississippi are selective, allowing younger deer to mature ...

Despite the distance limitations, deer hunting with bows and arrows in Mississippi has produced some monster bucks. In fact, to break into the Top 10 net scores for typical bucks taken with archery ...