Big woods rifles are brute in performance and ballerina in design. The best rifles will fit like a shotgun so that you can shoot fast, using instinct as much as the sights. They are light and fit the ...

Dwelling within the heart of all dedicated deer hunters is the belief that the biggest bucks live in the deep woods. There’s no true definition for “deep woods.” It varies from coast to coast. It ...

Straight-wall deer rifles aren’t new, but recent regulation changes have created booming demand for them. For decades, if you were a Midwest or East Coast deer hunter living in a densely populated ...

Hunters from all over Wayne and Pike Counties are starting off the 2025 rifle deer season with a bang, harvesting impressive Big Bucks.

The author's Winchester Model 70 with a maple wood stock hanging from, fittingly, a maple tree. Let’s get this part out of the way first: I am not a Fudd. I own lots of rifles and shotguns with ...

Brian Gee started hunting in Wyoming in 1968 with a rifle he bought for $121 that year. Now nearly 82, Gee still hunts — and ...

As of Nov. 14, 2025, baiting deer was prohibited in 60 of Wisconsin's counties and legal in 12, according to the DNR. The prohibitions are due to a state law that bans baiting and feeding deer in ...

The statewide archery and flintlock seasons open on Dec. 26 and run through Jan. 19. In Wildlife Management Units (WMUs) 2B, ...

Not far from my boyhood home in the green valleys of East Tennessee there once lived a man who fancied himself as something of a deer hunt­er. By all accounts, he was a rather ordinary man and much ...