Pros: The ultimate shock-and-awe shot. A big, fast-moving bullet will likely snap the spine, short-circuit the nervous system, break bones, and anchor a deer where it stands. Cons: The volatile, ...

If you are reasonably close and you shoot precisely, however, you are either going to sever the spine or give it such a shock that the deer will go down in its tracks and you are then obliged to ...

Because all the organs are attached to the deer along the spine, it can be helpful to tilt the deer on its side for this part so the organs roll out of your way and reveal their connection point. As ...

CWD is a contagious, fatal, neurological illness that can impact not only white-tailed deer, but other North American cervids ...

An Indiana deer hunter and father-to-be who was left ... the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said. Bowers suffered a spine injury and paralysis, authorities said. On Sunday, he chose ...

Mentioning the screwworm “sends shivers down every rancher’s spine,” to hear Adam H ... out in a population of Florida’s wild Key deer, a subspecies of the far more common white-tailed ...

A farmed white-tail deer from Osceola County has been infected ... Once an animal gets sick, the disease moves through the brain, spine and eventually kills the animal. CWD prions, a type of ...