I went for a hike Saturday and got eaten up by bugs. You’ll be out there shortly, hiking down to the river or camping, and you’ll suffer the same fate if you don’t spray down. While I don’t like to use repellent, you should. Insect bites aren't just itchy and uncomfortable; mosquitoes and other insects can transmit Lyme disease, West Nile virus and other nasty stuff. In the latest tests by Consumer Reports, here are 4 top repellents to use this summer. Non-DEET: Sawyers Fisherman's Formula ($9.99 from Cabela’s), with active ingredient 20 percent picaridin Repel Lemon Eucalyptus, which contains 30 percent oil of lemon eucalyptus. Both of the above non-DEET products repelled mosquitoes and ticks for at least 7 hours, [...]

In the last couple of seasons of BIG DEER TV, we have aired episodes from Wisconsin, New York, Montana and other places where we hunted hard, had fun and did not shoot a buck. Those "no kill" shows were some of our most popular and highly rated episodes. One good trend in hunting TV is that more and more viewers want to see and hear the real story, whether it ends with a buck or not, and more and more producers and network executives are getting that, albeit slowly. Every time somebody questions me on whether we ought to air a no-kill episode or not, I point them to this letter I got one time from a viewer: Mike: I want to tell [...]

Danny filmed this buck in Kansas one afternoon last fall...at 600 yards. When you see that much rack (esp. G-4s) from that far away you know it's a big deer. Second I saw him I hissed, "170!" And look how long his body is. Sometimes a buck’s huge size can make his rack look even smaller than it is. Back at the camp house that night I told the landowner I had seen a Boone and Crockett, or close to it. “Why didn’t you shoot?” he asked. “Six hundred is too far for me, and especially on TV,” I said. “Aw, you could have gotten him,” he growled. And I could have missed…or worse. Most hunters will never get the opportunity to see [...]