PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

Professor Tom Heberlein was forever vigilant about his deer camp’s buckpole, even though it hung empty more often than heavy each...

Whether you look under the table, beneath the bed or behind the barn, you’ll find few men who’ve introduced more people to hunting than...

Let’s hope the American Society of Mammalogists is tracking efforts by the American Ornithological Society to rename all birds that honor...

Baiting and feeding deer is illegal in 59 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, so wildlife professor Scott Craven thought it odd Dec. 7 to see...

You might assume Wisconsin hunters were happy they shot a deer every other second during November’s nine-day gun season. Pfft! You’re...

The books piled atop my dresser fight silent battles for my attention, with some struggling for years to deliver my bedtime education and...

A necropsy on the cougar killed in mid-November by a bowhunter in Wisconsin’s Buffalo County found the cat was healthy, well fed and...

The Welke family’s deer camp moved from the scrub oaks of northern Marinette County to the stately oaks of northcentral Crawford County...

Benjamin Karasch of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is the bowhunter who killed a mountain lion Nov. 11 in Buffalo County after it spotted him...

How long can hunters function without their smartphone and good cellular service? Jason Munz, 42, of Eau Claire made it roughly four...

Wisconsin welcomed the deer herds of Polk and Trempealeau counties to its CWD-tainted roster in late October, leaving only 29 of the...

Folks who scorn gray wolves often claim they see more of them than white-tailed deer when poking around Wisconsin’s Northwoods the past...

Tom Heberlein has long trimmed two faint trails through the back end of his Northwoods 40 to ease access to the Chequamegon National...

Long after Wisconsin “realigned” the Department of Natural Resources to “streamline state government” in November 2016, the agency’s...

Who would have thought demonizing wolves is so vital to Wisconsin that state senators would torpedo the Natural Resources Board just so...

MINOCQUA – Chicago accents blend into the cultural fabric and lure-jammed aisles of Rollie & Helen’s Musky Shop on Highway 51. After all,...

As an out-of-state visitor who pays nearly 10 times more than a resident to bowhunt Colorado’s elk, you’d appreciate a little local...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colorado – Frosty grass and numb hands suggest bull elk should be rutting and bugling, yet the mountains where I'm...

Many folks don’t know that until 50 years ago, Wisconsin’s cars and trucks killed more deer by accident than bowhunters did on purpose....

A loyal Chetek reader wrote last week to share a mid-1960s tale about her father and two buddies fishing one night in the Mississippi...