"Stand hunting" or "taking a post" can become a very chilly proposition, if not downright cold especially when the temperature hovers in the single digits and the wind howls and cuts through layers of ...

Hunting season started in August for some big game species but the heart of the annual event, the major rifle seasons for deer and elk, are still to come. The buck deer season for most units runs from ...

An AR-15 and AK-47 were among the rifles broken out for some target practice last week at the shooting range at State Game Lands 205 in Lehigh County. While both can make for an enjoyable time zeroing ...

People have been telling me they see some very large, racked bucks in the fields. During the rut, those big bucks let down their guard when in search of a mate. Now that the rut is nearly over, I am ...

The ultimate accomplishment for a North Woods deer hunter is snow tracking a mature buck and shooting him at close range. Executing a hunt like this takes skill, patience, and plenty of woodsmanship.

It was almost 40 years ago that the first whitetail came into my life. I dropped him on a granite ridge in New York’s Hudson River Valley, where, on a clear day, you could see the Empire State ...