I love the deer hunting tradition each November. Just about everyone who knows me finds this out sooner or later, especially if they saw me this past week, the final countdown to the Nov. 7 opening ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At the top of Dutch Mountain on the edge of State Game Lands 66 is Ron Garrison’s camp. His hunting clothes hang outside on a weathered wooden shed. There is ...

A brisk weekend night. Late November. I was walking the yellow dog through our Duluth neighborhood, but I was thinking about deer camps. This was a deer-hunting intensive weekend — the final weekend ...

What makes the best deer-camp rifle? Well there are some basic rules. Tradition is important, so your camp gun should be a classic, or at least a modern classic. It cannot be hideous to behold, ...

CARP, Minn. -- It was the kind of thing you'd see at any deer camp -- blaze orange everywhere, coffee brewing on the woodstove, chili heating in the kitchen -- but there was something special ...

WARDENSVILLE, W. Va. — At a time when traditional deer camps are disappearing in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, my family’s 36 gatherings in the mountains of West Virginia only become more precious with ...

Maybe you have heard. It's been in all the papers (for those of us who still read the paper): Deer season, meaning the rifle season for buck deer, is in full swing in much of the country. Now if you ...