'Tis the Season for Hunting Stories

Few hunters can match Jimmy Cassell’s consistent totals or antler size. He insists the key to prolific shed success rests on the pillars of geography and deer management.

David Ellis’ hunting and trapping videos are viral cocaine for a growing YouTube and Facebook audience addicted to his wild pig content. From backwoods redneck to social media star, he is part hunter, teacher, preacher, raconteur and ringmaster.

Jeff Pybus is farming’s invisible grim reaper, slaying rats in the dark as he shoots and films for an addicting, no-frills YouTube channel.

Drones for me, but not for thee? Hunters have a right to use drones in recovery of downed deer, says Mike Yoder, and that right is anchored in the First Amendment. A bellwether legal fight is underway that pits hunting, freedom of speech and entrepreneurship against the bounds of government control.