On the national level, there has been a longstanding consensus — backed by accumulated statistics — that the sport of hunting is not as popular as it once was, writes V. Paul Reynolds. Interestingly enough, both Maine and Vermont are generating recent anomalous statistics when it comes to numbers of hunters and annual deer harvests.

V. Paul Reynolds has never had one good night’s sleep during more than 25 years of elk hunting in the Colorado Rockies.

If you don’t know where you are, you are lost, writes V. Paul Reynolds. Admit it. Sit down. Think, Observe and Plan.