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Regular big game season begins Saturday in New York state and Southern Tier hunters can expect a good crop of deer if reports from the archery season ...

The snowy ridge stretched before him, tree trunks dark against the snow, occasional green hemlocks boughs giving a touch of color to the black and whi...

Do you hunt deer in order to fill your freezer? Or in order to get a nice set of antlers to hang on your wall? Non-hunters don’t care, anti-hunters ar...

Twenty years ago the deer population was high, bucks were everywhere, and it wasn’t hard to get one. Most were a year and a half old, with their first...

It was around the year 2000 when I attended a meeting of deer hunters where biologist Gary Alt held up two racks, a 4-point and a big 8-point. With th...

Preliminary data from the 2017 deer harvest show more Southern Tier hunters appear to want to wait for an older buck. “The trend lately has been a lar...

If you own land and plant food plots — or simply are an avid hunter — you must pay attention to whitetail deer’s need for security. Just as we as huma...

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — The 9-point buck peers stoically out of a corner of Harold Kleinow's dining room. His head is turned just slightly to the left, a...

March is the month when everyone hopes winter is over. Of course, it isn’t, and every new snow crushes our misguided hopes for an earlier than normal ...

The shed antler season is conveniently tucked right between the end of deer season and the beginning of spring gobbler season. Although it’s an unoffi...

A long hunting season has come and gone. Hours and hours have been spent in scouting, hanging stands, traveling and freezing to death. There have been...

BELFAST — Alex Enders and Jason Drozdowski are cousins and three-sport athletes who attend Belfast Central School. Late this gun season for deer, they...

There was a snort and a flash of tails as the alarmed deer ran off through the snow-covered woods and scattered beech brush. Despite the snow camo bot...

After a slow start to the regular big game season across the Southern Zone, New York deer and bear hunters have surpassed the 2016 harvest at this sam...

We used to hear it said often, “Once a spike, always a spike.” A generation ago most hunters knew little about what went on in the deer world outside ...

As hunters looked at the upcoming weather forecast for the opening day of New York, groans and moans filled the state. High wind, rain, cold — just mi...

Years ago I missed a standing shot at a young buck and it boosted him instantly to top speed. I locked my eyes on him as I ejected the spent .30-06 ro...

Much of what has made America great is eroding, and so it was with the greatest pleasure I discovered a good friend of mine and his daughter were spen...