Pre-rut behavior that sometimes gives an advantage to hunters during the muzzleloader season probably will not be so obvious this season. The weather has been relatively mild and, barring a real cold ...

KEMPTON – Hard to believe how long in the tooth flintlock hunters have become since getting in on the ground floor when the flintlock deer season made its debut in the mid-1970s. Not hard to believe, ...

Arctic-spawned flurries ripped through the late-December woods with an angry vengeance, sporadically showering snow off the big ridge-top hemlocks. The creaking and swaying of the stark hardwoods gave ...