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Early on, I discovered that the primary way to see game in the woods is to detect movement. The twitch of a squirrel’s tail or the flick of a deer’s e...

Gary Clark lives in Emporium. Whenever I look at those narrow valleys and very steep, tall, hillsides I always shudder. I’d hate to climb those sharpl...

In my early teenage years, I’d already realized that I was hopelessly hooked on outdoor sports. I studied all the Outdoor Life and Sports Afield magaz...

The view from one of my favorite vistas offered the same scenery, but something was different. While the leaves on the trees have yet to exhibit brill...

I t’s often referred to as finding a needle in a haystack. After all, locating shed antlers here in Pennsylvania was once considered a rarity. However...

I burst through the door in a cloud of icy air, swirling snowflakes and extreme excitement. My face was flushed bright, beet red from the 15 degree te...

This has certainly been an interesting year, especially if you’re an outdoors person and attuned to the peculiarities of this area’s weather. Unusual ...

The opening of Pennsylvania’s rifle season had been filled with surprises. A rain filled opening day, then temperature swings that facilitated snow co...

When Vince Quillman retired he wanted out of the city, away from the noise and bustle of metropolitan areas. After discovering Smethport he fell in lo...

The end of the first week of the rifle deer season brought with it mixed results. Weather conditions always play a hand in how we greet the day. And w...

The hunter had been sitting in the tree stand since daylight and hadn’t seen a deer. It was almost 1 p.m. now and cold, hunger and discouragement was ...

It’s a long drive to Osage Beach, Missouri, 16 to 17 hours in fact with good weather and minimum traffic problems. So it wasn’t surprising that Jim Zi...

Hunters have definite opinions about a lot of things, from the best rifle and caliber and everything else, right down to winter underwear. But come th...

I met a nice gentleman the other day and we began talking about deer and deer hunting, especially bucks and how cagey they can become. He told me an i...

The fall season is now upon us. It’s hard to believe that summer is over for another year. It seems like just yesterday I was getting ready for all th...

It’s the second week of archery season: daylight’s fading and you can’t help thinking of dinner. You turn and look behind you one more time. Incredibl...

Everyone at camp was excited: the first day of deer season was upon us. I hadn’t bagged a deer yet and, being young and excitable, had missed some gol...

Right now what you see is what you’ll get when it comes to deer in general and bucks in particular. Since mid-May the bucks have been developing antle...

We can’t all shoot bucks the first day or the first week. That’s just the way things are. But rest assured, there are lots of bucks out there and many...

Think about it. At a time when we want to spend as much time afield hunting as possible, the hours of daylight become shorter with each passing day. R...