You boys know why venison tenderloin tastes so good on opening day?” Every year someone asks and every year I give the same ...

It's a brisk Monday at the "Krantz Ranch" hunting camp up here in the boonies of northwest Minnesota, and a half-dozen or so members of the crew are gathered back at the deer shack for a midday break.

It’s too bad we don't have the Old Guard’s stories on tape because no one told them better than they did. Stories such as the ...

WHEN I SEE THE OLD FARMHOUSE, the guilt hits so hard I actually stop in my tracks—as if freezing will somehow check the feeling. But it doesn’t, and I make my way to the cracked concrete slab that ...

When most people think about deer season in Upper Michigan, they think about serious stuff. Words like licenses, bullets, ...

PEARSALL - The bond of blood or marriage has a rival each fall when deer hunters' hearts beat faster in anticipation of time spent in search of meat for the freezer or trophies for the wall. Lasting ...

You might call Gary Van Buskirk an old-school deer hunter. He likes to pursue his sport in the national forest, where he sets up a tent camp well off the road and lives among the deer for a week at a ...

Recent license sales indicate about 14% of Minnesota deer hunters are women, with a larger portion — about 29% — of youth ...

This week I am writing to you about what many hunters call the second week of deer camp, which is basically Monday through Sunday of the nine-day deer gun season. For the first two days of the deer ...

During a deer drive last weekend, Brock Windoft of Lakewood downed a magnificent 10-point monster buck that might have been the king of the Chautauqua County woods. Photo by Ryan McChesney Deer camp, ...