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How to Train Your Dog to Blood-Trail Deer

There are breeds that specialize in just about every task, but almost any dog can learn to blood-trail wounded game.

How to Follow a Blood Trail After Dark

Bowhunt whitetails long enough and you’ll find yourself in a situation where you have to try and follow a blood trail after dark. After all, many good bucks do not make an appearance until it is almost too dark to see your sight pins. When you shoot them and they run off, you have to go find them. And while bloodtrailing is more art than science and each situation is unique unto itself, here are some rules that will help you quickly recover your deer.

Blood Trail Basics

Nicely done! All your planning came to fruition, and you just shot a deer. If it didn’t drop within sight, though, the high-fiving may be premature. What you do next will determine whether you go home with fresh venison or just a sob story. Never fear, though—Bryce Towsley is offering a few tips to help ensure you recover your prey.

10 Tips for Tracking an Animal’s Blood Trail

These 10 tips will help you recover game while keeping you and your companions safe.

Return to the Big Woods

Hunters who have the mountains of north-central Pennsylvania in their blood will always come back for deer season.

#SundayGunday: Benelli Super Black Eagle 3

Managing Editor Jon Draper discusses the Benelli Super Black Eagle 3, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

First Look: Gravedigger Extreme Cut-on-Contact Broadhead

The Gravedigger Extreme Cut-on-Contact Broadhead, from Bloodsport, is a new hybrid mechanical broadhead designed to create large wound channels for maximum blood loss.

SureFire P2X Fury Flashlight

Providing 500 lumens of bright white light, the P2X Fury from SureFire will help you follow a sparse blood trail in the pitch dark.

Stranded in the Okavango Swamps

Roaring lions, monster crocs, blood-sucking leeches and some bush-league solutions to get out of a jam are all part of being stuck in Africa.

Do Grizzlies Stalk Hunters?

We've all looked over our shoulders when in grizzly bear habitat, especially when we're elbow-deep in deer or elk blood after a successful hunt—but do bears actually stalk hunters hoping to steal a meal?

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