With plenty of collective experience hunting from tree stands, we’ve been around long enough to remember when hunter safety classes focused mainly on firearm safety. In those days, tree stand safety ...

Every deer season, tragic loss of life could be avoided. We lose hunters each year to falls from treestands. Wearing a safety harness would likely have saved those lives. Safety is paramount when ...

Every deer season, loss of life tragedies could be avoided. We lose hunters each year to falls from treestands. Wearing a safety harness would likely have saved those lives. Safety is paramount when ...

Treestands are elevated platforms used by hunters in pursuit of game. Usually deer, but sometimes for other species. Unfortunately, hunters lose their lives or are seriously injured each year because ...

If the advertisements are to be believed, one should never leave home without a certain credit card. That may or may not be so, but one thing not open to debate concerns those going afield Saturday, ...

It began with a phone call from a familiar voice. "Did you hear about the hunter in Van Buren County who fell out of his treestand?" I hadn't. Not yet, anyhow.The caller was Jeff DeRegnaucourt. The ...

A Franklin County hunter is recovering from injuries tonight after falling from a tree stand. It marks the second tree stand fall in Southwest Virginia in just the last two weeks. WDBJ7 met with the ...

September is Tree Stand Safety Awareness Month, and while September days are numbered, the importance of being safe in a tree stand doesn't end Sept. 30. If anything, tree stand safety becomes even ...

Every deer season, loss of life tragedies can be avoided. We lose hunters each year to falls from treestands. Wearing a safety harness would likely have saved those lives. Safety is paramount when ...