A Southern Christmas Hunt
South Carolina’s first poet laureate recounts a holiday hunt on the family plantation.
Dear Deer
Dear Deer, Why do you make me chase you? If you only knew what I had to go through, the trials I must endure, the obstacles I must overcome in order to spend time with you, you would throw your hooves up in the air and surrender out of sheer pity. First, I have to get...
Boddington’s Best Buck
A large, dark brown bear appeared on the ridge above us. The sound of Craig’s one shot was all it took for that top predator to home in on us. Soon after being put ashore we jumped a huge buck at sixty yards that took off quartering away to the right. I told him to...
The Knobbly Buck
The magnificent old buck was a once-in-a-lifetime prize…and now it stood only 25 yards from his son’s stand.
The Parson Lied
First published in the April 1939 issue of Hunting & Fishing magazine, and then in Tales of Quails ’n Such in 1951.
Tips for Aging Bucks by Body Traits
Aging bucks on the hoof is as much art as science. You won’t get it right every time, but keep trying.
Teen Girl Takes World-Record-Breaking Buck
This Kansas teen now holds the world record for the largest non-typical whitetail shot by a female hunter, a 42-point buck. In September of this year, Paslie W. from Kansas was out hunting with her father only one day after the youth hunting season had begun. That...
How to Define a True “Trophy” Buck
This question might sound simple, especially to those of you that have just begun your whitetail hunting career, but take it from me, it’s a question that has kept deer hunters awake at night. After almost 60 years of “taking to the whitetail woods,” I...
Forget Gun Control, We Need Van Control
If you become bored with the sport of conventional deer hunting and are considering getting behind the wheel for a more mobile approach, here are a few points of etiquette to keep in mind. Forget all that nonsense of climbing trees and chasing deer around with dogs....