A mud-caked buck appears out of nowhere, his legs stained from the bog. The deer scans its surroundings. He’s an old deer that knows just how perilous life can be outside the security of his swamp.

Not long ago, the hardest thing about big buck hunting was simply that mature whitetails were so scarce. In most states, the vast majority of bucks were killed the first year they wore visible antlers ...

During a single deer season in Vermont, my family shot seven bucks and stacked up more than 1,000 pounds of venison.

Would you go 180 miles away to hunt deer — if you had them in your own backyard? Probably not, unless you had buck fever. I don’t mean the acute kind that leaves you trying to swallow your Adam’s ...

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 ...

Fishing for smallmouth bass on the Green River, revisiting a 2022 buck hunt, and more. Chad fishes for smallmouth by kayak on the Green River, information on pursuing small game in the state and ...