Deer season is less than two months away; let’s reflect on how deer hunting was ‘back in the day’ compared to today. My first ‘stand’ was actually not a stand at all but rather a 5-gallon bucket set ...

Most deer hunters think they’re quieter in the woods than they really are. You climb into your stand feeling like you slipped in unnoticed, but mature deer are already adjusting to the little noises ...

Fifteen minutes before the end of shooting light, a buck's appearance was prefaced with the telltale crunch of leaves. Adrenaline's old familiar tune was starting to play my nerves like guitar strings ...

Wade Stufft remembers well the day he decided to get his luxurious deer stand, the "deer condo," as he calls it. It was about four years ago, and he was gun deer hunting on family property in ...

WHEN YOU HUNT from the leaning-tree stand, you never know where the deer might come from. It’s an inexpensive two-person ladder stand, old as dirt, not quite rickety, but you can see rickety from ...

Something happened to me as a Pennsylvania deer hunter the last three years. I re-learned that it’s fun. In my formative years as a hunter some 35 years ago, Pennsylvania deer hunting was always fun.

Hunting and killing a mature whitetail buck is hard. Repeating the feat, season after season, is really hard. And when your hunting season isn’t working out the way you planned, it can get pretty ...

I came across the deer stand on a grouse hunt a couple of weeks ago. That isn't uncommon. Bird hunters, walking through random patches of typical grouse habitat, sometimes find themselves peering up ...