Deer camp isn’t just about the chase—it’s about those epic stories around the fire, the camaraderie, and yeah, the food that ...

Every fall deer hunters head to camp with friends and family in hopes of killing a mature buck. It’s a long-standing tradition, particularly in the Midwest and East where many of us live in urban ...

ORIENTA — Not far out of downtown Oulu, down a gravel road they call "Tarpaper Alley," you’ll find a deer camp tucked into the ash, oak and aspen forest of northern Bayfield County. In some ways, it’s ...

This weekend, tens of thousands of Minnesotans will retreat to places that are as much a state of mind as they are physical structures with surrounding acreage. Deer camps. Sometimes centered by mouse ...

Deer camp has been a Michigan tradition for generations of hunters. Every hunter has their own traditions, from a favorite shirt they must wear, to the meat market they must stop at to pick up brats ...

This story, “A Deer of Thanksgiving,” originally ran in the November 1964 issue of Outdoor Life. THE SHOT CAME just as I was easing into position by a dead oak snag. With head down and eyes scanning ...

I never believed I’d get old. Me, who grew up on stories told by the Old Ones—my grandfather, father, uncle—about bygone days, taking these stories in as one would a meal. I might have understood ...

During a deer drive last weekend, Brock Windoft of Lakewood downed a magnificent 10-point monster buck that might have been the king of the Chautauqua County woods. Photo by Ryan McChesney Deer camp, ...

WHEN I SEE THE OLD FARMHOUSE, the guilt hits so hard I actually stop in my tracks—as if freezing will somehow check the feeling. But it doesn’t, and I make my way to the cracked concrete slab that ...

Maybe you have heard. It's been in all the papers (for those of us who still read the paper): Deer season, meaning the rifle season for buck deer, is in full swing in much of the country. Now if you ...

“The senses are very much intensified. And so too are the experiences between people magnified. I think people are more open,” said John Miller, a photographer who documented hunting camp culture in ...