Hannah Helmer was shaking as she attempted to zero in on the monster elk about 200 yards away. “I tried not to think of how big he was,” she said, “and just getting those crosshairs right where I was ...

We’re in the heart of another elk season, and hunters are stalking the mountains and backcountry looking to fill their tags—and daydreaming about lovesick bulls screaming their way into bow or gun ...

Ricky Sechrist is one lucky hunter. He'll be the first one to tell you that. The 59-year-old Sechrist, from Springettsbury Township in York County, recently bagged his first-ever bull elk. Shooting ...

Charles Stone, of Montrose, with the 6-by-6-point bull elk he harvested during the 2015 Pennsylvania elk hunting season. Rodney Hoover, of Martinsburg, killed a massive bull elk, with 7-by-6-point ...

Manchester's Alfred Hake bagged an 803-pound elk in Clearfield County recently. It was the third-largest elk harvested in Pennsylvania this year. Hake, 68, has been hunting since he was 13 years old.