Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My back to a stump, I wasn't aware of the buck behind me till too late. THE FIRST DEER I ever killed came to me, but I was in a ...

Old timers will tell you that you do not need a backpack full of gadgets to kill a smart whitetail, you just need to move like a predator and think like a deer. The one “trick” they keep going back to ...

Back in the ’60s, my dad expressed a universal principle of deer hunting this way: “The best hunters are the ones who spend ...

New deer rifles are expensive, but you can often buy old store-brand rifles for almost nothing. You'll find them at estate sales and pawn shops. They are homely and basic. They might have checkering ...

UNLESS YOU CONSIDER the impenetrable 30 acres of head-high cattails in the old oxbow slough, the wildest part of this working alfalfa field is the stand of green ash and slag-bark cottonwood trees on ...

It's a new normal for Northeastern Minnesota deer hunters. After several years of record and near-record deer harvests, the population has been knocked down to size in many areas. Deer numbers are at ...