One of the traditions of deer hunting is the deer camp. These come in various configurations, and include everything from the old backwoods Adirondack tent and lean-to sites to the lavish modern ...
WARDENSVILLE, W. Va. — At a time when traditional deer camps are disappearing in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, my family’s 36 gatherings in the mountains of West Virginia only become more precious with ...
It was a picture-postcard hunting camp, a chinked-log one-story blackened by age, wearing a mantle of chimney smoke on a snow-covered roof. Cheery rectangles of lamplight shone from within. An ...
OK, if you want to accuse me of again getting too nostalgic, that is all right and fair. More than once in these pages, we have covered how things have changed in the outdoors world over the years, ...
WHEN I SEE THE OLD FARMHOUSE, the guilt hits so hard I actually stop in my tracks—as if freezing will somehow check the feeling. But it doesn’t, and I make my way to the cracked concrete slab that ...
When you’ve spent enough seasons in the woods, you start to learn which calibers pull their weight and which ones turn a good hunt into a bad story. Deer aren’t difficult animals to bring down when ...
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Skip Lemere, center, hands out ammunition to Russ Lowrey, left, and Sean Williamson at the Tom Carroll Camp in Lewis on Friday, November 14, 2025. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger As a young boy, Ben ...