Tracking a deer after the shot is where hunts are either finished cleanly or fall apart fast. Even experienced hunters slip into habits that cost them time, sign, and sometimes the animal altogether.

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; ...

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 ...

Al Harakal was about ready to give up deer hunting for the season on Sunday afternoon, when he headed back over to Shenango Lake from his home in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. Harakal had shot the biggest ...

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 ...

This story, “Tracking El Grande,” appeared in the February 2007 issue of Outdoor Life. In the pale dawn light, Valo Velazquez heads into a chill north wind blowing across Mexico’s Sonoran Desert. A ...