A buck watches its backtrail. The ultimate accomplishment for a North Woods deer hunter is snow tracking a mature buck and shooting him at close range. Executing a hunt like this takes skill, patience ...

The 1963 deer season in Ohio ran for only two days, Thursday and Friday, December 12 and 13, and the regulations limited hunting from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. We didn’t find the track of the big buck until ...

This story, “Old Crooked Horn,” was originally published in the September 1982 issue of Outdoor Life. The big mule deer buck was mad. He wheeled, lowered his head and charged Vaughn Wilkins, who was ...