Stories from the Field

Opening day in Michigan is tomorrow and the hunt for Holyfield is finally beginning. Over the past few months I’ve talked a lot about this buck, so I won’t bore you with all the details again. I just...

We’ve got another terrific reader success story for you today and in this one Taylor Oxendahl shows us exactly what can happen when you hunt smart and persevere year after year. It took Taylor three years to kill this buck, but wow,...

Today we’ve got our first Wired To Hunt reader success story of the year and it comes from Matt Tagget. Matt traveled all the way from Michigan to chase early season bucks in North Dakota and his hard work and...

I got home from Ohio last night at 3:00 AM, after hunting the first two nights of the season down there, and here’s what happened. Heading in to the weekend, I had relatively low expectations. Temperatures were...

I have great news. “Holyfield” – the dandy three year old Michigan buck I passed last year, with hopes of him making it to four and being my #1 target buck in 2016 – is back! In...

14 nights in a sleeping bag. 4,000 miles on the truck and dozens on the boots. Six frozen meals in the back of a truck, six freeze-dried meals in the mountains, two bags of cookies, countless coffees,...

What a start to the 2016 season! I’m still a bit dumbfounded by the success I had earlier this week in Montana, but I’ll certainly take it. Never look a gift horse in the mouth, right? Since...

“Ughhhhh. I blew it.” That’s the text I sent at 4:00 PM Monday. I’d just gotten my Montana opportunity and I’d blown it. 1500 miles of driving, an expensive non-resident tag, weeks of planning – all for this...