"Stand hunting" or "taking a post" can become a very chilly proposition, if not downright cold especially when the ...

Darkness consumed the Douglas fir forest in Oregon’s Cascade Range. Unloading the rifle, I headed for the truck. It was pouring rain and windy. Perfect blacktail deer hunting conditions, but the ...

The general rifle hunting season for Western Washington blacktail deer will start Saturday and run through the end of the month. Hunters across Southwest Washington will head into the woods to try and ...

A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

Shooting from a bench doesn’t prepare you for the wind, uneven ground, or a deer that won’t stand still. Out in the field, your stance has to adapt to the moment. The wind moves your rifle, your ...

As ecosystems in coastal British Columbia disappear due to long-term browsing pressures from overabundant black-tailed deer, ...