Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A buck watches its backtrail. The ultimate accomplishment for a North Woods deer hunter is snow tracking a mature buck and ...

THE CHILL REACHED into the shadows at Boot Lake Portage as the November sun slid down into the dark firs and aspens. My wife Lil flexed her stiffening hands, crushed out her cigarette on the hard sand ...

It’s a phrase often repeated amongst deer hunters who aren’t seeing any bucks—they’ve “gone nocturnal.” And it’s usually about this time in the fall—mid-October—when we start hearing it. The big guys ...