Blood color and texture tell a story about the shot placement. Bright, frothy blood with bubbles indicates a lung hit, while ...

For a good part of the season, deer hunting can be as much an obsession as it is enjoyment. Why else would anyone spend so many hours sitting in a tree? But when the rut is over in the North Country; ...

Sometimes a deer will simply drop in its tracks, ending your hunt the moment you squeeze the trigger. Just as often, a deer will run out of sight and start the next chapter of your hunt. Once you ...

APULIA STATION, N.Y. -- Many in the deer hunting world know him as Tracker John. John Engelken is a nationally known, full-time blood tracker. For nearly four decades, the veteran hunting guide has ...

Hard work and planning really do pay off. After spotting a potentially record-breaking buck in 2019, a New York resident spent countless hours tracking the animal and learning its habits. After ...

There is perhaps nothing more frustrating, angering and morale-sapping for a deer hunter than losing a wounded deer. Every hunter worth their salt — archery or firearm — makes every effort to place ...

As anyone who has watched many deer hunting videos will agree, a common cliche after a shot drops an animal in its tracks is, "That's the kind of tracking job I like." Even if we don't say it during ...

Arkansas deer hunters checked 214,022 deer in the 2020-21 season, and trackers in the Arkansas Blood Trailing Network found 856 of them. While that's a significant increase over the 509 deer recovered ...

When you loose an arrow or squeeze a trigger on a whitetail, the real test of your skills starts... The post Illinois just ...

Deer hunters in Louisiana will see a few looser restrictions on tracking mortally wounded deer when the season opens this fall thanks to a new act signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry. Act No. 272, ...