My personal treestand strategy these days is much different than when I was a young bowhunter with far more gumption… more »

The odds were good that a bull was going to visit the small waterhole, which was ringed by sign. The… more »

Maybe I’m just getting old, but there are a lot of things in the deer-hunting culture that get on my… more »

There is generally a lot more thought put into cold-weather clothing than the duds we wear in the earlier part… more »

Most Midwest and Eastern hunters want to travel West to hunt something other than whitetails at least once in their… more »

It seems that at least once a year I devote some column space to chronic wasting disease, and the reason… more »

In my last column I wrote about an issue with my shoulder. Fortunately it is continuing to heal, and I… more »

In my early days of archery, I had this idea that the more I shot, the better I’d become. So… more »

Sitting in the dark in a big fir tree, I huddled into my fleece coat high on a desert ridge… more »

This has fast become one of my favorite venison meals. I can’t take credit for the recipe (that honor goes… more »

July is the official start of summer glassing season. Across whitetail territory, antlers are starting to really take shape and… more »

Last fall, I hung a trail camera over a scrape where I figured the biggest buck in that particular woods… more »

Most bowhunters appreciate learning ways to manage for big bucks. Maybe that’s why thousands of us attend the Quality Deer… more »

All varieties of North American big game are special for one reason or another. But they certainly are not created… more »

Last year was a pretty normal one for me until the end of September, when my shoulder just quit working…. more »

I live in the world of whitetails most of the year, so gear planning for deer is natural to the… more »

It’s hard to think about whitetails right now. Harder anyway, than it is in the middle of August when bachelor… more »

SNAP! Was that a branch I just heard break, or are my ears playing tricks on me? I wondered. Then… more »

Years ago, choosing a vane was simple. You had target vanes and you had hunting vanes, with the latter being… more »

As i crawled out from my MSR tent in the predawn stillness, I felt on top of the world. At… more »