Deer hunting was important to their family story, and to keep telling it you needed to keep doing it, adding chapters to the ...

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 a 7-point buck head that will eventually ...

It’s too bad we don't have the Old Guard’s stories on tape because no one told them better than they did. Stories such as the ...

WHEN I SEE THE OLD FARMHOUSE, the guilt hits so hard I actually stop in my tracks—as if freezing will somehow check the feeling. But it doesn’t, and I make my way to the cracked concrete slab that ...

Even as the number of deer sightings decline, tradition drives the Bryant family to travel several hours from southern Michigan to the Upper Peninsula to celebrate opening day, the first day of ...

Memories and traditions from Wisconsin’s nine-day gun-deer season often outlive the hunters, deer camps and habitats where a 12-year-old hunter saw and maybe missed his or her first deer. Most ...

You boys know why venison tenderloin tastes so good on opening day?” Every year someone asks and every year I give the same ...

When most people think about deer season in Upper Michigan, they think about serious stuff. Words like licenses, bullets, ...

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 ...

Nov. 8—I don't normally do this, but with deer season now upon us, I thought I'd share this column I wrote nearly 20 years ago, as it appeared in the Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006, edition of the Grand Forks ...