Until now, the definition of a traditional deer hunter was someone who pursued his quarry with a flintlock rifle like those wielded by frontiersmen Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett. But thanks to a ...

From her spot inside her family's 106-year-old barn, Dawn Wagner watched a young spike buck approach an apple tree 13 yards away. Heart racing, she took careful aim and did what ancient hunters did 20 ...

Dawn Wagner from Lincoln County is the first woman in modern times to harvest a deer using an atlatl in Missouri. The Missouri Department of Conservation legalized the ancient hunting method in 2009, ...

Archaeologists say it s the atlatl, a simple handheld device with which 5- to 8-foot arrow-like darts are hurled at speeds exceeding 100 mph. Of course, that was thousands of years ago when woolly ...

Former Montanan James King gave me the heads up that two Missouri hunters were the first to take deer in that state using atlatls. The Missouri Department of Conservation wrote up a story about the ...

A Missouri deer hunter harvested a trophy 15-point buck only four months after taking up one of hunting's most challenging methods. He used an atlatl. When Paul Gragg of Defiance, Mo., set out to bag ...

St. Charles, Mo. – Missouri is a great place to hunt deer. In fact, it's a place that makes it possible to harvest a trophy 15-point buck only four months after taking up one of hunting's most ...