Tracking a deer after the shot is where hunts are either finished cleanly or fall apart fast. Even experienced hunters slip into habits that cost them time, sign, and sometimes the animal altogether.

This story, “Tracking El Grande,” appeared in the February 2007 issue of Outdoor Life. In the pale dawn light, Valo Velazquez heads into a chill north wind blowing across Mexico’s Sonoran Desert. A ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is asking the public to help with surveillance of a viral disease that’s often fatal to white-tailed deer. Epizootic hemorrhagic disease, or EHD, has been confirmed ...