Tracking a deer after the shot is where hunts are either finished cleanly or fall apart fast. Even experienced hunters slip into habits that cost them time, sign, and sometimes the animal altogether.

For a good part of the season, deer hunting can be as much an obsession as it is enjoyment. Why else would anyone spend so many hours sitting in a tree? But when the rut is over in the North Country; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ALBANY ‒ You can, “Aim small, miss small.” You can routinely shoot one-hole groups on the range. You can wait for the perfect shot ...

There is perhaps nothing more frustrating, angering and morale-sapping for a deer hunter than losing a wounded deer. Every hunter worth their salt — archery or firearm — makes every effort to place ...

SOUTH OF SUPERIOR -- Daphne and Mr. Pitts are in a fever. They smell blood, and they like it. "Pick it up! Find the deer!" urges their owner and master, Steve Wittke of rural Douglas County. "Good boy ...

MAYFIELD – Bob Calzola has been hunting at the state gamelands in Susquehanna County for more than 20 years, but for the past few, he has not seen much to get excited about. The Madison Twp. man said ...

Arkansas deer hunters checked 214,022 deer in the 2020-21 season, and trackers in the Arkansas Blood Trailing Network found 856 of them. While that's a significant increase over the 509 deer recovered ...