When deer hunting and snow covers the ground, I often forego typical stand hunting and instead trust my hunting instincts, senses and reflexes (but mostly my camouflage), and still-hunt. A still-hunt ...

A buck watches its backtrail. 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 ...

A trio of deer hunters set out into a canyon deep in Washington state full of deer and without any competing fellow hunters.

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 ...

This story, “I Work for My Bucks,” appeared in the October 1962 issue of Outdoor Life. I had caugt two fleeting glimpses of the big buck. The first was when he went sailing in long bounds across a ...

CLYDE – Barney’s Carryout is carrying on the tradition of the old-time big buck contest with a photo on the winner’s board. The photos are done with cell phones today and not Polaroid cameras, but ...

On Nov. 23 at 11 a.m., Mike Waters of East End left me a voice message that I could barely decipher. Waters was barely intelligible because he was hyperventilating over a big buck down. Waters didn't ...

Harvesting a trophy buck is a once-in-a-lifetime thing for many hunters, but for one Mississippi man, it was just a part of ...