If you want to hook someone into hunting, you need to make it fun. Sitting still for hours on end in the freezing cold, hushing them to be quieter, is likely not the best way to build a hunter. Start ...

You might be a little early if you head out shed antler hunting now, but you also might be the bird who gets the worm. Bucks, male deer, shed their antlers each year. This typically happens from ...

Here in Western New York, as soon as the snow starts to leave the hills and fields, it’s time to hunt for “drops,” or whitetail shed antlers. Back in the day “shed hunting” was reserved for a few of ...

Don Leeding's black Labrador, Jackie, retrieves a shed antler in a Platte River valley woodland. For eons, man has been finding ways to put that cold wet thing on the end of his best friend's face to ...

SILVER CREEK TOWNSHIP — Joe Shead cringed when a visitor asked what he might do with some of the 1,000 deer antler sheds he’s collected over the years. Maybe make them into a chandelier, or cribbage ...

Hunting for shed antlers has become such a popular activity in recent years that Colorado Parks and Wildlife has to warn collectors not to hunt before the season starts. Shed antlers are antlers ...

Hal Herring, host of the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast, holds a shed discovered during a prescribed fire. Submitted photo If you want to hook someone into hunting, you need to make it fun.