Archery hunting more than anything else requires tracking skills to recover game. While bowhunters always strive for accurate, lethal shots resulting in quick, efficient harvests, an animal’s first ...

Blood color and texture tell a story about the shot placement. Bright, frothy blood with bubbles indicates a lung hit, while ...

ALBANY ‒ You can, “Aim small, miss small.” You can routinely shoot one-hole groups on the range. You can wait for the perfect shot. But if you hunt long enough sooner or later you will make what you ...

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 ...

Nick Fortin, of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, demonstrates how he tracks deer through the woods of Ferdinand on Dec. 8, 2023. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger On the last Friday of ...

As anyone who has watched many deer hunting videos will agree, a common cliche after a shot drops an animal in its tracks is, "That's the kind of tracking job I like." Even if we don't say it during ...

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; ...

Most seasoned hunters are confident in their ability to find a deer should it be wounded by a shot and need to be tracked. We know to wait awhile before beginning the tracking, giving the deer the ...

How easy is it to get permission from the Pennsylvania Game Commission to track a deer after dark? So easy, a 56-year-old, technologically-challenged bowhunter did it. Earlier this year, I wrote a few ...