Blood color and texture tell a story about the shot placement. Bright, frothy blood with bubbles indicates a lung hit, while ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most deer hunters in New York this season finally got a little snow. For this hunter, it’s welcome and a blessing, as tracking deer has traditionally been an important part of the deer hunting ...

According to the National Deer Association, during the 2023-2024 hunting season, U.S. hunters successfully harvested more than 3 million whitetail bucks, thus establishing a new record for mature buck ...

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; ...

We just need 181 members to help us reach our goal by Thanksgiving and send 3,600 meals to the Vermont Foodbank. Nick Fortin, of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, demonstrates how he tracks deer ...

Deer Surveillance Area exists to track spread of fatal chronic wasting disease With CWD spreading, the tracking zone is also likely to expand CWD is extremely hard to contain What it’s meant to ...

Most people think dew claws in a deer track mean a big buck. But dew claws show up because of deep snow, soft ground, ...