How Far Can a Dog Track a Wounded Deer Before You Should Back Out? A good blood tracking dog can follow a wounded deer anywhere

Decide If You Even Need an Oxygen Tank in the Woods If you need an oxygen tank to breathe, you can still hunt, but you

Start Here, Because The Rules Change Fast. You get a disabled hunting permit by proving your disability to the right state agency, then applying for

Pick the Crossbow That Will Actually Work One-Handed The best crossbow for one handed shooting is a compact, well-balanced, low-recoil crossbow with a crank cocking

Pick One Chair Based on How You Actually Hunt If you hunt from the ground and you move even a little, I would buy the

What I Would Buy First If I Was Hunting From a Wheelchair The fastest way to make wheelchair hunting work is to build your setup

Pick One: Youth Crossbow For Close Shots, Youth Rifle For Easy Range. If my kid can sit still and keep the shot under 30 yards,

Pick Snacks That Keep Kids Quiet, Warm, and Hydrated The best snacks for kids on long hunts are quiet to eat, won’t freeze solid, don’t

Pick Your Copper Bullet Based on Your Real Range The best copper bullet for deer hunting is the Barnes TTSX if you want the safest

Pick One Box And Go Hunt If you put a gun to my head and made me choose one deer load across a bunch of

Pick One Rifle. Then Hunt With It. If you want a no-drama deer rifle for timber and 40 to 125 yard shots, I would buy

Pick a Lever Gun That Handles Fast, Not One That Looks Cool The best lever action for deer in thick woods is a short, handy

Pick One Caliber and Get Good With It For deer inside 200 yards, I would pick a .308 Winchester if I could only own one

Pick Your Scope Like You Pick Your Stand, Not Like You Pick a Catalog The best scope for a lever action 30-30 is a low-power,

Start Here: The Fast Way I Zero at 100 Yards I zero a rifle scope for 100 yards by boresighting, shooting a 3-shot group at

Pick 10×42 or 8×42 Based on How Far You Really Glass If I have to judge a rack past 200 yards, I grab 10×42. If

Pick One Based on Your Real Hunting, Not Specs If you are a whitetail hunter who glassed deer inside 400 yards from a treestand edge,

Pick Your Winner Before You Spend the Money If you want the best value with fast ranges and solid low-light performance, I would buy a

Pick One Based on How You Actually Hunt, Not the Logo If you want the cleanest ranging in low light and you can stomach the

Buy 8×42 or 10×42, and stop overthinking it. The best deer hunting binoculars under $300 are 8×42 or 10×42 roof-prism binos with decent glass, a

Pick 2 Hunts, Not 20 The best rut hunting tactics for small properties are: hunt fewer sits, hunt the downwind edge of doe bedding, and

Pick Morning or Evening First, Then Pick Your Tree The best morning stand locations are tight to bedding and downwind of where deer spent the

Pick Your Entry Route Before You Pick Your Stand The clean way to hunt a doe bedding area without spooking it is to slip in

What I Actually Do During The Second Rut The best second rut strategy is simple. I hunt food close to thick bedding, sit longer, and