The ultimate accomplishment for a North Woods deer hunter is snow tracking a mature buck and shooting him at close range. Executing a hunt like this takes skill, patience, and plenty of woodsmanship.

For most of her life, the idea of shooting a deer was unthinkable to Amy Rush. An animal lover who once believed hunting was ...

On Nov. 23 at 11 a.m., Mike Waters of East End left me a voice message that I could barely decipher. Waters was barely intelligible because he was hyperventilating over a big buck down. Waters didn't ...

Robbie Flint with the giant Maine buck he hunted from the ground. The wind was blowing the afternoon of Nov. 4, when 29-year-old Robbie Flint and his 18-year-old brother, Gage Boyington, headed toward ...