Spencer Hartings had been watching "Ghost" on trail cameras long enough to figure out the deer's pattern, and he waited for ...

every season, I’ve always felt much more comfortable on the ground. Maybe it’s because I have more success there. Three of the last four whitetails I’ve harvested were from the ground. Or maybe it’s ...

One of my luckier breaks was running into Judy Kovar last winter. Kovar, from tiny, flood-ravaged Hardin, Ill., has become the country’s leading proponent of ground-blind bowhunting. I never thought I ...

I’ve been in enough late-season tree stands to know a few truths about them: they are cold, they seem smaller than they did a month ago, they are a pain to crawl into and out of in winter. But wait, ...

Years ago, before the enlightened age of tree stands, whitetail hunters routinely took game from terra firma. These days, however, most deer are taken by hunters from an elevated position or tree ...

The author shot his first Columbia blacktail 49 years ago and he ranks them among North America’s most challenging big game ...

I’ve learned during the years to pay attention to (most of) my wife’s ideas no matter how goofy they may seem at the time. Since we’re rifle hunters, we usually hunt deer from some sort of ground ...

The older I get, the less inclined I am to hunt from an elevated tree stand, but I don't feel disadvantaged hunting from the ground. I see it as a matter of odds. Every motorcycle rider will tell you ...

On Sept. 19, I shot my first deer of the season. It was my first deer with a crossbow. I shot the mature doe at a distance of 12 yards while sitting on the ground. No, I was not using a ground blind.