Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost
It was 1998 and my wife’s uncle had received exclusive permission from a farmer’s widow to hunt a hundred or more acres of farmland bordered by swamp and hardwood forest in Duplin County, North Carolina. He’d hunted the land since opening day, and for most of that...
An Excerpt From: In The Land Of The Lakota
Mike Jr. was going for a whitetail he’d been after for a couple of years. He was hoping to climb up a certain tree stand close to the buck’s travel corridor. But the shifting wind changed all that. “There was actually one deer in there that was bigger than that one,”...
Long Live the King
Rather than disrespecting a trophy, a bit of tasteful decoration can help to establish him as part of the family. For seven summers, the king enjoyed the adoration of his subjects, the ladies of his court literally fawning before him. His graying cape was stretched...
Anticosti Anticipation
L’Île-D’Anticosti has many moods. When fog settles in from the Atlantic, it frowns. Yet on each spruce needle it leaves a diamond. As morning sun melts the mist, each droplet sparkles with increasing joi de vivre. You can see it in the deer. With such hesitancy they...
Tails, You Lose!
“Sometimes I dearly hate whitetails!” My humbled, mumbled comment brought a snicker from my hunting partner, J. Wayne Fears. I was glad it was only a small laugh and my friend had recovered a bit. Only moments before he had been laughing so hard I thought he might...
My First Buck with a Bow
Saxton Pope, the father of modern archery, takes his first whitetail with stick and string.
Alamo Axis
There’s one less trophy buck in Texas . . . but there’s plenty more where he came from.
Five Reasons to Go Shed Hunting
It’s not just about you, or even the antlers. Your dog loves it, too.
Whitetail Lockdown Explained
It’s not just your imagination. Deer do lock down during the rut, but that doesn’t mean you can’t tag a buck . . . if you’re up for the challenge.