Blood color and texture tell a story about the shot placement. Bright, frothy blood with bubbles indicates a lung hit, while darker blood suggests a liver shot. If the blood is greenish or contains ...

Sometimes a deer will simply drop in its tracks, ending your hunt the moment you squeeze the trigger. Just as often, a deer will run out of sight and start the next chapter of your hunt. Once you ...

Archery hunting more than anything else requires tracking skills to recover game. While bowhunters always strive for accurate, lethal shots resulting in quick, efficient harvests, an animal’s first ...

The rest is detailed at the outset. Clearly, the inconsistency of deer hunting can move in multiple directions. Somehow ...

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; ...

Most seasoned hunters are confident in their ability to find a deer should it be wounded by a shot and need to be tracked. We know to wait awhile before beginning the tracking, giving the deer the ...

If you hunt deer in Illinois, you are living through a technological shift that is racing ahead of the... The post Thinking ...

Helping others recover their deer has become a passion for a life-long outdoorsman. Michael Beck, 49, Jerome, Somerset County, has a dog, Dexter, that’s trained to follow the scent of a wounded deer.