Hunting and Fishing News & Blog Articles

When it comes right down to it, it doesn’t matter what we have in our hands, but always what we have in our heart.

I can see every arrow I’ve ever loosed. I see the arc, I see the shaft flying, I see the glowing nock cutting the airspace. To me, forever, every arrow is the most important arrow. Every hunt is the most celebrated hunt.

It’s almost the perfect afternoon for deer hunting. There’s just enough nip in the air to warrant this knit hat, and the air is crisp enough to turn my breath into small billows with every exhale. There’s not much wind, but what little there is creates a wind-chime effect with the red, yellow and orange […]

Go that extra mile this season to insure the best venison possible. To my way of thinking, such diligent, careful handling is as much fun as the hunting.

The early part of the season offers you an excellent opportunity to determine a buck’s daily traffic pattern and hunt accordingly.

Discover your own aim-small, miss-small solutions and have the most enjoyable and productive hunting season of your lives. Breathe, baby breathe!

There is nothing wrong with casual, easygoing hunting. But when plunged full-on, heart and soul to a samurai warrior level, it is the rare endeavor that truly qualifies as out of body. Choose your own level of commitment, and just have the most fun hunting season of your life. It’s all a matter of details, details, details.

Alright all you Spirit Warriors of the Great American Outdoors backstrap army, happy happy September to you all! Ladies and gentlemen; start your spirit engines! We have Spirit of the Wild liftoff 2021, and thank God almighty, just in the nick of time!

Ted Nugent — full-time rocker and deer hunting fanatic — did not do meth and poop his pants to avoid being drafted during the Vietnam War. He did, however, use parts of a wild, true story that happened — to one of his former bandmates — to embellish a rock-n-roll interview with a stoned reporter […]

By choosing your crossbow shot placement carefully, you will greatly increase your chances for a harvest and successful recovery.

Recording my new record, "Ted Nugent Detroit Muscle," recently with my killer band Jason Hartless and Greg Smith, we literally ignited a roaring American, primal spirit campfire every time we fired up our instruments, celebrating the greatest quality of life in the history of humankind and the uppity, defiant, crazy FUN FREEDOM soundtrack that goes with it.

A new test developed by researchers in Minnesota now allows hunters to further determine if their venison is free of the chronic wasting disease prions. Although no scientific research has shown a link between CWD and human disease concerns, some hunters are wary of eating venison from deer in CWD areas.   The news on […]

If you truly want to meet a strong, well-grounded, truly independent, tuned-in, rugged individual, I give you the American hunter. If any specific demographic in America best represents the traditional American family values of God, family, country, freedom, work ethic, and law and order, it would be the licensed hunting families of this great nation.

Conservationists rejoice! In the abject darkness of world conditions in 2021, there is a shining ray of hopeful light, as more and more Americans are rediscovering and returning to their throbbing pulsations deep within their purest instinct to reconnect with their natural touch with nature as healer.

It is with great sadness that we hear of the sudden passing of deer hunting great R.G. Bernier of Standish, Maine. Dick was a master tracker, hunter, writer, photographer and devout Christian. He was 62. I first met Dick about 20 years ago when I took over the helm here at Deer & Deer Hunting. […]

The vast majority of sporters eagerly await October for the games to erupt, but we should all know by now that it is here in the month of August when we should really get cracking to make certain our supplies are ready to rock.

If you are in the market for a new hunting crossbow, right now is the perfect time for you to consider pulling the trigger on your crossbow purchase.

Grounded! Down to earth! Certainly two of the greatest compliments a person can bestow upon another, identifying the integrity, reliability and righteousness of an individual. When it gets right down to it, both those terms are quite literal in their origin, celebrating a person’s honest, earthly touch and connection, as in farming, ranching, hunting, fishing, trapping and overall down-and-dirty terra firma hands-on lifestyles.

Here’s a huge Nuge SALUTE to all those loving, giving, generous, caring volunteers across the land that are having such a powerfully positive impact on young Americans. I hear from groups in all 50 states that have created such positive youth-oriented sporting activities, and I know firsthand the life-enhancing, and actual lifesaving benefits of such volunteerism.

Having spent a lifetime learning from trial and error, I just might very well be as good a guy as there is to offer introductory archery advice to best equip the newcomer to avoid the mistakes that every new archer/bowhunter will face. The general question on how to get started is a doozy, but keeping it real and simple is always the best initial guidance.