Buck Fever, a Sideways Arrow, and the Process That Changed the Next Shot

Amos’s Diary: Monday, July 20, 1903

I Trusted $11 Gloves in Freezing Weather—and Watched a Doe Walk Away

The No Man’s Land Shot and What to Do When the Blood Trail Dies

The State Cut My Favorite Timber, and I Was Furious Until I Saw What Grew Back

Lost on Public Land: The Afternoon I Finally Sat Down

I Lost the Biggest Bass of My Life to a Knot I Didn’t Check

Silver Skin Venison Burgers: Why They Tasted Gamey

Amos’s Diary: Planting Beans in the Spring Mud

I Fell Asleep in the Stand and Woke Up to My Biggest Buck

An $80 Cheaper Scope Fogged Up on the Only Buck I Saw All Season

Why Bench Practice Didn’t Prepare Me for a Treestand Shot

The Buck-Only Rule That Left a Deer Herd Hungry

Finding West With a Floating Needle on the Emigrant Trail

I Ruined the Liver on My First Deer and Blamed It for Three Years

I Sold My Bow After Losing My First Deer—Then Ray Talked Me Back Into the Woods

Amos’s Diary: Persimmons After the First Frost, October 17, 1903

I Set the Hook Too Early Every Day for Thirty Years

A Buck Dropped, Then Ran: Why Down Doesn’t Always Mean Dead

I Spent Two Grand on Scent-Proof Camo Before I Learned the Wind Was Free

I Bumped the Buck I Shot and Almost Lost Everything

When the Sky Turned Green on the Oregon Trail

The Lead I Left in the Gut Pile and the Bald Eagle That Ate It

How One Hunter Stopped Overcooking Venison Backstrap

The Plastic Deer That Bought Me a Seat at Deer Camp

The First Buck I Ever Killed Was Small, and That Was Exactly the Point

The Wall Fish That Flipped Off My Wet Hands and Back Down the Hole

On His First Sit, My Son Saw the Deer First

Lice, Mosquitoes, and Survival on the 1848 Platte Trail

Shot the Bull Two Miles In. Then the Real Hunt Started.

Three Hours of Gas and an Unloaded Buck | Check the Gun Before You Drive

The Doe I Passed for Fifteen Years, and the Herd That Paid for It

The Grunt Call That Ran the Buck Off

The Tag That Stayed on the Dresser and Cost a Man His Opening Morning

Where Fair Chase Ends and a Citation Begins

Ice Fishing: Leaving the Dead Hole Behind

Eleven Caps Beside the Platte: Keeping a Hawken Rifle Alive on the Oregon Trail

He Left His Rifle on the Kitchen Table Before a Deer Hunt

The Northern Pike That Taught Me to Slow Down

Amos’s Diary: A Shoat, a Fence, and July 8, 1903

The .223 Rifle That Wasn’t Legal for Deer

The Rifle Cost $900. The Scope Cost $40.

Trail Camera Rules Are Changing in 2026

Three Years of Backyard Practice and the First Live Deer Still Made Me Freeze

I Mounted My Scope Wrong and Paid for It in Blood

West of the Sweetwater: Foraging the Oregon Trail When Supplies Ran Out

The Deer He Shot but Never Ate—and the Question That Changed His Hunting

A Six-Pound Catfish, a Trotline, and a River at Night

The Rifle That Never Left the Safe Until Grandpa Was Gone

The Opening Day I Spent Mad at a Man Who Wasn’t Even in My Tree

A Lost Bear and the Search It Was Owed

The Lost Bear and the Search That Changed a Hunter’s Recovery

Why Oregon Trail Families Saved Lead and Snared Small Game

The Rifle Sling I Refused to Buy Cost Me the Only Buck I Saw All Season

The Ninety-Dollar Boots That Cost a Man His Buck

Squirrel and Dumplings: Why Low and Slow Makes the Meal

The Year I Stopped Hunting Grouse and Started Walking

My .30-06 Was Illegal for Deer Hunting in Ohio

A Cousin Found Walleye in Three Feet of Water After Dark

Brain Tanning a Hide on the Oregon Trail