What makes the best deer-camp rifle? Well there are some basic rules. Tradition is important, so your camp gun should be a classic, or at least a modern classic. It cannot be hideous to behold, ...

Once upon a time, I wrote a little story about a fellow going to deer camp. "Gone to Little Buck" told about an older man who had been going to this camp for many years, but now that most of those in ...

WARDENSVILLE, W. Va. — At a time when traditional deer camps are disappearing in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, my family’s 36 gatherings in the mountains of West Virginia only become more precious with ...

Nate Matthews leads the way back to the trail after filling his buck tag on a cold morning in 2019. Colin Kearns 2017, Day 4: I had just sat down on a dry, flat rock to rest and take some notes when I ...

BIG FALLS - The eastern sky lightened into bands of pink and orange at dawn Nov. 22, 2025, plenty bright to see wildlife on the move from my elevated perch near Big Falls, Wis. The first animal to ...

PEARSALL - The bond of blood or marriage has a rival each fall when deer hunters' hearts beat faster in anticipation of time spent in search of meat for the freezer or trophies for the wall. Lasting ...

When you’ve spent enough seasons in the woods, you start to learn which calibers pull their weight and which ones turn a good hunt into a bad story. Deer aren’t difficult animals to bring down when ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At the top of Dutch Mountain on the edge of State Game Lands 66 is Ron Garrison’s camp. His hunting clothes hang outside on a weathered wooden shed. There is ...

This story, “Murphy’s Pride,” originally ran in the May 1989 issue of Outdoor Life. In the fireplace, a log burned through and set off a fusillade of sparks as it plunked between the andirons. Murphy ...

Game commissioners voted 6-3 to reject moving the regular firearms season start to the Saturday before Thanksgiving, with ...