Deer season is less than two months away; let’s reflect on how deer hunting was ‘back in the day’ compared to today. My first ‘stand’ was actually not a stand at all but rather a 5-gallon bucket set ...

Fifteen minutes before the end of shooting light, a buck's appearance was prefaced with the telltale crunch of leaves. Adrenaline's old familiar tune was starting to play my nerves like guitar strings ...

WHEN YOU HUNT from the leaning-tree stand, you never know where the deer might come from. It’s an inexpensive two-person ladder stand, old as dirt, not quite rickety, but you can see rickety from ...

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Something happened to me as a Pennsylvania deer hunter the last three years. I re-learned that it’s fun. In my formative years as a hunter some 35 years ago, Pennsylvania deer hunting was always fun.

A thin layer of frost covered the ground as I crossed a barbed-wire fence in the darkness and walked a few hundred yards from the road to my deer stand. I tied my bow to a thin rope, and then, using ...