Ladder stands are like the minivans of the deer woods. They’re functional and comfy; you just don’t want your buddies knowing you hunt from one. Personally, I’d rather bowhunt from a lock-on stand 20 ...

Deer season is less than two months away; let’s reflect on how deer hunting was ‘back in the day’ compared to today. My first ‘stand’ was actually not a stand at all but rather a 5-gallon bucket set ...

Fifteen minutes before the end of shooting light, a buck's appearance was prefaced with the telltale crunch of leaves. Adrenaline's old familiar tune was starting to play my nerves like guitar strings ...

Archery and rifle hunters alike should always wear a high quality full body harness and make sure it is properly attached to a safety line or life line when hunting from elevated tree stands. Rusty ...

There are good reasons most hunters aiming for a white-tail deer on Saturday will climb into a tree stand. Tree stands get you above a deer's line of sight. They give you a bird's eye view of the ...

Over the next 3½ months, more than 150,000 people will be heading into the woods in hopes of harvesting whitetail deer in South Carolina. It goes without saying that as a responsible deer hunter you ...

DULUTH, Minn.-Beth Holst had hunted on the ground for the first two days of last fall's Minnesota firearms deer season, but she hadn't seen a deer. She decided she'd hunt from an elevated stand on the ...

North-central Pennsylvania’s Tioga County is rugged rolling terrain that holds plenty of whitetail deer. And on the November 29, opening morning of the state rifle deer season, 29-year-old hunter Ben ...