A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

Haugen devoted three seasons to bowhunting this Columbia blacktail, the biggest bodied buck he’s taken. He laid eyes on it one time, moments before darkness fell on this Thanksgiving day. Darkness ...