When deer hunting and snow covers the ground, I often forego typical stand hunting and instead trust my hunting instincts, senses and reflexes (but mostly my camouflage), and still-hunt. A still-hunt ...

Still-hunting whitetails demands a rifle that feels natural in your hands, moves quietly through the timber, and doesn’t weigh you down after a few miles of easing along ridgelines and creek bottoms.

THE FIRST DEER I ever killed came to me, but I was in a good place, walking a few steps at a time and making frequent stops, and looking more than moving. Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen him. That’s a ...

For most whitetail hunters, the West’s steep, conifer-covered mountainsides—as high as 6,000 feet—don’t usually come to mind as ideal whitetail habitat. More like good habitat for muleys. But ...

During the peak of the rut, it’s often wise to pick a stand and wait it out. The randomness of deer activity requires patience from a deer hunter, and if you just wait long enough, that big buck will ...

I was wearing corduroy pants when I shot my first deer. The swish-swishing of those corduroy ribs was much louder in the woods than in the hallways of school. It didn’t matter much because I was ...

Still hunting may be one of the most misunderstood terms in the sportsman’s vernacular. Then again, can you blame anyone for assuming that the phrase, “still hunting,” literally means sitting still in ...