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 ...

Walking in the woods and along the field lines, you never know what you or your dog may find — maybe even an antler that a nice buck recently dropped. White-tailed deer shed their antlers over late ...

Dennis Hawk’s school of finding shed white-tailed deer antlers is not for the faint of heart. No. 1, there’s the mileage: The Palmerton area man estimates he’s put in 150 miles over the past few ...

I’ve been hunting in the woods lately, but without a firearm or a bow. Vernal pools are boiling with mating wood frogs. Honking geese fill the skies. Trees have not yet begun to bud so the sun is warm ...

Editor’s Note: Back in the spring of 2009, our late, great whitetails columnist, Scott Bestul, had the brilliant idea of enlisting the noses of drug-sniffing dogs to help shed light on a buck’s ...

Buck, a 12-year-old wire fox terrier, has a knack for finding shed antlers in the woods and fields near his home in Unionville, Pennsylvania. Buck has found approximately 35-40 antlers, mostly smaller ...

Dennis Hawk’s school of finding shed white-tailed deer antlers is not for the faint of heart. No. 1, there’s the mileage: The Palmerton area man estimates he’s put in 150 miles over the past few ...