sway so hard that you feel like you’re on a carnival ride, that’s too much wind for deer hunting—from a stand, at least. If branches large enough to maim are crashing down around your ground blind , ...

It betrays us but it also betrays them. Somehow one would think that life and death in the deer woods would depend on substantial, strong, rugged, tangible things like trees and earth and our machines ...

EAU CLAIRE — The deer harvest during the nine-day gun hunt climbed 5.2% this year, after being slightly behind pace for the first two days of the hunt. Jeff Pritzl, Department of Natural Resources ...

Shooting from a bench doesn’t prepare you for the wind, uneven ground, or a deer that won’t stand still. Out in the field, your stance has to adapt to the moment. The wind moves your rifle, your ...

With a hard-to-draw tag and permission to hunt a legendary ranch, a Texas deer hunter makes the most of a tough season.

Opening day of firearm deer season will have pretty nice weather for hunting. The morning weather will be fairly quiet with light winds, cool temperatures and no precipitation. If wind is your most ...

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