It was still a while before daybreak when I heard a deer blow so close I’d bet it was no more than 10 yards away. There is no ...

By Susan Bard, Bangor Daily News Outdoors Editor Dawn DeNicola of Newport won this year’s Maine Women Hunters big buck contest after tagging a 213-pound deer, the heaviest entered among the 89 hunters ...

Most hunters don’t abandon stands because they’re bad spots. They abandon them because those stands don’t offer quick action, ...

A couple of Kansas bowhunters shot their 250-plus inch target bucks, putting those deer in a class that most hunters only dream to see and making them a couple of the biggest known deer killed in the ...

Small-woods deer hunting is its own kind of puzzle. You don’t have sprawling timber, deep ridges, or endless bedding... The ...

Something happened to me as a Pennsylvania deer hunter the last three years. I re-learned that it’s fun. In my formative ...

Every year as the rut winds down, I stop thinking about my own deer season (mostly) and start thinking about helping a new hunter — a buddy, a coworker, a cousin — take their first deer. Thanks to the ...