Big Game

It’s a simple formula. Find the honey holes, create good bait sites, monitor your sites to select the right one to hunt, and you’ll have consistent success.

By creating your own deer pathways, you will encourage reclusive bucks to walk past your stand instead of staying out of sight.

Letting noxious vegetation get out of control can spell disaster for your food-plot plants, and controlling them is a year-round job.

A much-anticipated return to Minnesota''s north country wilderness helps Mark Melotik solidify a plan for a Fall 2010 bowhunt.

Over the years I’ve made so many mistakes that I finally know how not to bait bears. What follows are my Top 10 blunders.

Does a liberal predator control program have a positive effect on your land''s deer population?

Now is the time to start planning your early-season waterfowl hunts. Look north to catch the beginning of the fall migrations.

The time period for nonresidents to apply for a coveted Fall 2010 Iowa archery deer license is May 1 through June 6, 2010. My advice for dedicated whitetail chasers? Do it.

Now is the time to map obvious, easily read sign to help you pattern those many-tined, "holdover" bucks.

Bowhunters have a lot to gain from top 3-D pros.

Deer season may be over, but it's never too early to get a jump on next year''s deer season. Spring scouting can produce big bucks next fall.

When the temperature rises and the coyote have young, should you be hunting?

Some of you have been hunting sheds for weeks, but for many in the upper Midwest, "prime time" is finally here.

A world much different from the massive expanse of open country out West, the eastern dark timber calls for special tools.

Traditional techniques to judge the age of a deer have come under scrutiny in recent years, but here''s an overview of the tooth eruption and wear patterns that can be used to identify fawns, yearlings, middle-aged, and mature whitetails.

If you haven’t jumped on the digital trail-cam bandwagon yet, well, we don’t know what you’re waiting for. Here are a few great options in the trail-cam world.

For those who waited there’s plenty of innovation in the crop of new 2010 bows, as well as some nifty accessories all hardcore bowhunters need to see.