The ultimate accomplishment for a North Woods deer hunter is snow tracking a mature buck and shooting him at close range.

"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 ...

Tracking a deer after the shot is where hunts are either finished cleanly or fall apart fast. Even experienced... The post ...

No one wants to have to track an animal far—or at all for that matter. But, if you hunt and pull the trigger enough, you will ...

For a good part of the season, deer hunting can be as much an obsession as it is enjoyment. Why else would anyone spend so many hours sitting in a tree? But when the rut is over in the North Country; ...

ALBANY ‒ You can, “Aim small, miss small.” You can routinely shoot one-hole groups on the range. You can wait for the perfect shot. But if you hunt long enough sooner or later you will make what you ...

Archery hunting more than anything else requires tracking skills to recover game. While bowhunters always strive for accurate, lethal shots resulting in quick, efficient harvests, an animal’s first ...

There is perhaps nothing more frustrating, angering and morale-sapping for a deer hunter than losing a wounded deer. Every hunter worth their salt — archery or firearm — makes every effort to place ...

Arkansas deer hunters checked 214,022 deer in the 2020-21 season, and trackers in the Arkansas Blood Trailing Network found 856 of them. While that's a significant increase over the 509 deer recovered ...

Deer hunters in Louisiana will see a few looser restrictions on tracking mortally wounded deer when the season opens this fall thanks to a new act signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry. Act No. 272, ...