Columnist V. Paul Reynolds tells a tale of a deer hunt that turned into a fight for survival.

Ice conditions vary greatly throughout the state, and while ice conditions may be safe in some spots, conditions can be very dangerous in others.

The machines can get you to camps on unplowed roads, like columnist V. Paul Reynolds remembers fondly. But he also cautions about the dangers associated with piloting them.

On the national level, there has been a longstanding consensus — backed by accumulated statistics — that the sport of hunting is not as popular as it once was, writes V. Paul Reynolds. Interestingly enough, both Maine and Vermont are generating recent anomalous statistics when it comes to numbers of hunters and annual deer harvests.

V. Paul Reynolds has never had one good night’s sleep during more than 25 years of elk hunting in the Colorado Rockies.

If you don’t know where you are, you are lost, writes V. Paul Reynolds. Admit it. Sit down. Think, Observe and Plan. 

In most cases, the bottom line at Christmas time is this: sportsmen and women can be tough to shop for because if they needed it, they more than likely already went out and bought it.

At the end of the day, the essence of hunting ethics is how the hunter feels about himself when he leaves the deer woods, all of which makes the running shot question a deeply personal choice, writes V. Paul Reynolds