PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

Frozen deer blood looks raspberry-red and clings in clumps to boot laces and pants cuffs, letting you brush most of it away before it...

Hunting in Wisconsin is 95% safer than in 1966, but if you still feel skittish, consider this: You can further reduce your odds of...

My compound bow’s 20-yard sight-pin wavered low on the 8-point buck’s chest as I held at full draw, my index finger hesitating over the...

Hunters who like DIY projects can expand their self-reliance by extracting the lymph nodes of deer they shoot and getting them tested for...

I thought of George Orwell in late September as three members of Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board figuratively gang-tackled fellow...

While leading a tour through his fishing-tackle manufacturing building in the mid-1990s, a sales/advertising representative snorted...

Note: I wrote this column in January 2009 soon after my first hunt, and face-to-face meet-up, with my good friend Doug Duren. I'm sharing...

Folks who spend much time outdoors eventually stumble into something that makes them question Mother Nature’s indifference to her...

When pondering whether to post vintage hunting photos on the internet, heed this advice: Don’t make claims about the time, place, hunters...

By all relevant standards, Horicon native Jim Heffelfinger is a smart, honest, peace-loving man you can trust with your wife, wallet and...

CASCADE, Idaho — Wisconsin has long sent legions of ice-fishing anglers north or west to chase yellow perch at famous destinations like...

Wisconsin was the first state in the U.S. to create a stand-alone bowhunting season in 1934. As the Badger state heads into its 89th...

When late August arrives and folks talk of autumn’s fast-approaching hunting seasons, friends often ask if I’m returning to Idaho to...

Since moving to Eau Claire about two years ago and setting up our backyard birdfeeders, my wife and I have made regulars out of...

You’d never suspect that Lori Danz, Wisconsin’s 2023 Teacher of the Year, hated school as a youngster. Danz, 57, a biology teacher and...

When James Kroll addressed Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board last week, he fired up a PowerPoint presentation titled “The 2012 Deer...

If you feel persecuted because your boss says you’re slow, and drivers don’t yield when you step into crosswalks, be grateful you’re not...

Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board will welcome back Texas’ Jim Kroll to its meeting Aug. 10 to catch up on all things white-tailed...

One baseless accusation heard again in June during our eternal deer debates is that this biologist or that forester is only “book smart,”...

Scrapbook photos from August 2011 show sturdy piers, tightly stacked firewood, a proud grandfather, and an 11-year-old grandson shooting...