Deer season is a memorable time of year, a tradition that brings friends and family together. But it also can be a sad time. I thought about that the Sunday night of Minnesota's deer opener as I left ...

It's a brisk Monday at the "Krantz Ranch" hunting camp up here in the boonies of northwest Minnesota, and a half-dozen or so members of the crew are gathered back at the deer shack for a midday break.

There's something magical about a hunting camp in the north woods, a point that was driven home several times again during this year's deer season. Whether it's a rustic shack pieced together over the ...

NORTH OF ISLAND LAKE - At 5:30 a.m. Saturday, Mike Morley of Eveleth put the coffee water on to boil at his deer shack. Then he stepped outside to check the thermometer. “Forty degrees out there,” he ...

Wade Stufft remembers well the day he decided to get his luxurious deer stand, the "deer condo," as he calls it. It was about four years ago, and he was gun deer hunting on family property in ...

Nov. 8—I don't normally do this, but with deer season now upon us, I thought I'd share this column I wrote nearly 20 years ago, as it appeared in the Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006, edition of the Grand Forks ...

CUMBERLAND, WIS. - Few things say "made in America" as much as a deer hunting shack, and the one I use during the Wisconsin whitetail season is about as American as a shack gets. Wood-burning stove.

TOWN OF HIGHLAND -- Some hunters say deer don't move around much during a driving snowfall, but Brian Erdman knows better. It was just after noon, at the height of Saturday's snowstorm, when Erdman ...

There's something magical about a hunting camp in the north woods, a point that was driven home several times again during this year's deer season. Whether it's a rustic shack pieced together over the ...