Tracking a deer after the shot is where hunts are either finished cleanly or fall apart fast. Even experienced hunters slip into habits that cost them time, sign, and sometimes the animal altogether.

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; ...

Shotgun deer hunting season starts on Monday, Dec. 1 and it runs until Saturday, Dec. 14, (excluding Sundays). Two bucks can be harvested and if hunters have valid antlerless deer permits (doe permits ...