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A whitetail buck in a grassy field.
Conservation

Oklahoma Plans to Combat CWD by Releasing Captive-Bred Deer into the Wild

By Dac Collins

The original magazine pages of the story Top Shelf Elk by Jack O'Connor.
Hunting

Jack O’Connor Makes a Flawless Shot on a Record-Book Elk

By Jack O’Connor

tim carpenter
Hunting

California Guide’s Roosevelt Elk Is a New World Record. It’s Not His First

By Dac Collins

bull elk
Big Game Hunting

Tales from the North Country: When a Giant Bull Elk Escaped from a Wisconsin Game Farm, Authorities Called Upon a Retired Marine

By David Zeug

Ryan Watson with his wife and family in Oklahoma.
Big Game Hunting

Deer Hunter Faces 12 Years in Prison for Accidentally Bringing Ammo on Vacation to Turks and Caicos

By Dac Collins

A prescribed burn is one way to help out on earth day.
Hunting

Every Day Is Earth Day When You’re a Deer Hunter

By Lindsay Thomas Jr.

Piles of debris lay in the snowy Minnesota woods.
Big Game Hunting

Minnesota DNR Blew Up Illegal Tree Stands with Dynamite: ‘My Whole Place Shook’

By Katie Hill

Jack O'Connor, reclining in the grass while taking a break on a hunt.
Hunting

Jack O’Connor’s Last Hunt, From the Archives

By Jack Atcheson Sr., as told to Jim Zumbo

Chronic wasting disease hunter head dropoff container
Big Game Hunting

Viral Articles Claim Two ‘Hunters Died After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison.’ Here’s What Really Happened

By Katie Hill

A bull elk bugles in the woods.
Hunting

Wisconsin Hunters Will Get More Chances to Hunt Elk This Fall

By Katie Hill

A drop of blood on the tooth of a crocodile.
Hunting

Hunting the Nile Crocodile, the Very Picture of Death

By Andrew McKean

A hunter with a Rocky Mountain bighorn ewe.
Big Game Hunting

Most Hunters Will Never Get the Chance to Chase a Bighorn Ram, but What About Ewes?

By Christine Peterson

shed antlers
Big Game Hunting

30 of the Biggest Whitetail Shed Antler Sets Ever Found

By Josh Honeycutt

hunter with sheep head
Hunting

Can Sheep Hunting in the Yukon Survive Another Century?

By Alex Robinson

A whitetail buck flags its tail in a field.
Big Game Hunting

Indiana Taxidermist Helps Identify State’s First Case of Chronic Wasting Disease

By Katie Hill

Babe Ruth poses with two other hunters and various dead game animals.
Hunting

A Deer Hunt with Babe Ruth, from the Archives

By Bob Edge

A Wyoming bull in Yellowstone National Park.
Big Game Hunting

Elk Hunters Had a Phenomenal Season in Wyoming While Idaho Saw the Worst Elk Harvest in a Decade

By Dac Collins

Two bedded Shiras bulls.
Hunting

Nevada’s First-Ever Moose Season Excites Hunters as Big-Game Applications Open

By Katie Hill

A tannery employee holds up mountain lion hides ready for shipping
Hunting

An Inside Look at the Last Great Tannery in America

Photographs by Nic Antaya, Story by Alex Robinson

Large elephant herd walking in Botswana.
Big Game Hunting

Botswana President Bashes UK’s Proposed Trophy Import Ban, Calls It a Return to ‘Colonial Conquest’

By Dac Collins

This Happened to Me: The Police Raided My Deer Hunt
Hunting

This Happened to Me: The Police Raided My Deer Hunt

By Taylor Chamberlin, As told to Scott Einsmann

A pair of desert bighorn sheep.
Hunting

Arizona Will Stop Auctioning Big-Game Tags to the Wealthiest Hunters

By Dac Collins

A big trophy mule deer buck.
Hunting

Auction vs. Raffle Tags: Should States Stop Selling Big-Game Tags to the Highest Bidder?

By Andrew McKean

A cape buffalo taken while hunting in Zimbabwe,
Hunting

Cape Fear: Hunting Buffalo in the Matetsi Safari Area of Zimbabwe

Story by John B. Snow, Photographs by Justin Moore

old magazine pages
Hunting

Trying to Stop a Brown Bear Attack with a .38 Special, from the Archives

By Cecil Rhode

Elk eating hay in Montana.
Hunting

States Want to Issue Lots of Transferrable Big-Game Tags to Landowners. Regular Hunters Want to Stop Them

By Andrew McKean

Thieves are sawing antlers off skulls and selling them to shed buyers.
Hunting

Thieves Are Stealing More and More Racks From Hunters in the West — and Their Profits Keep Growing

By Dac Collins

A bird hunter walks across the North Dakota prairie
Hunting

Why Do I Hunt? The Answer to Hunting’s Toughest Question

By Jim Zumbo

Jack O’Connor’s Final Word on How to Pick a Deer Rifle
Guns

Jack O’Connor’s Final Word on How to Pick a Deer Rifle

By Jack O’Connor

onx
Conservation

The onX Effect: Digital Mapping Apps Have Changed the Way We Hunt. Now What Will They Do With All Our Data?

By Christine Peterson

Magazine spread
Survival

An Ontario Moose Hunt Turns Into a 10-Day Survival Ordeal, From the Archives

By Elwyn “Bud” Myers

A wall full of European mounts.
Hunting

Canadian Authorities Searching for Antler Thief Who Stole 14 Deer Mounts from Hunter’s Residence

By Dac Collins

A drone-mounted camera shows a wounded buck in the woods.
Hunting

Man Convicted of Wildlife Crimes for Trying to Help Undercover Game Wardens Recover a Deer with His Drone

By Dac Collins

Asian buffalo
Hunting

Carmichel in Australia: Charged by a Backwater Buffalo

By Jim Carmichel

Hunters line up for a duck blind lottery in darkness. Photo by Tom Fowlks
Hunting

Can Hunting Survive in California? And If It Can’t, Who’s Going to Pay to Conserve the State’s Wildlife and Habitat?

Story by Christine Peterson, Photographs by Tom Fowlks

A Tennessee hunter with a buck and a drone flying overhead.
Hunting

Drones Could Revolutionize How Hunters Recover Lost Deer … If They’re Not Banned First

By Hayden Sammak

An illustration of the last grizzly bear in Colorado attacking a hunter.
Survival

I Killed the Last Grizzly in Colorado

By Ed Wiseman

Illustration of caribou, hunter, and blizzard
Survival

Miracle on the Tundra: How One Caribou Hunter Survived a 5-Day Blizzard

By Dac Collins

A composite image of deer visiting vine scrapes.
Hunting

The Truth About Rope Scrapes, One of the Hottest Tactics in Whitetail Hunting

By Natalie Krebs

Two hunters in Texas with a plains zebra.
Conservation

There’s Now a Jurassic Park for Vanishing Wildlife. It’s Called Texas

Story by Dac Collins, Photographs by Jeff Wilson

argali ram with hunters and mongolian flag
Hunting

Hunting Argali Sheep with a Crappy Scope, One Box of Ammo, and No Translator

By John B. Snow

hog hunting
Hunting

Hog Hunting: A Beginner’s Guide

By Mike Dickerson

trophy whitetail heads
Hunting

The Case Against Scoring Big-Game Animals

By Andrew McKean

Charleen Parten poses with a whitetail buck.
Hunting

Meet the Arkansas Great-Grandma Who’s Completed the ‘Triple Trophy’ for 20 Deer Seasons

By Katie Hill

A buck lies half-submerged in half-frozen water.
Hunting

Question of Ethics: The Buck I Was Snow Tracking Suddenly Broke Through the Ice. Should I Shoot Him?

By Nick Fasciano

ozonics
Hunting

Does Ozonics Actually Work? Here’s What 5 Independent, Diehard Deer Hunters Say After Field Testing

By Alex Robinson

A trail camera photo of a buck in Mississippi.
Hunting

Hunter Tags 15-Point Buck with Unusual Double Rows of Tines

By Bob McNally

High fence deer could hold the key to CWD resistance.
Conservation

Here’s What Top Chronic Wasting Disease Researchers Can’t Say on the Record

By Andrew McKean

A hunter in camo secures a tag around the antlers of a nice elk.
Hunting

Why Everybody Loves to Hate Nonresident Elk Hunters

By Andrew McKean

A hunter sits beside a dall ram, and looks into a steep alpine basin.
Hunting

Welcome to the New, Uncertain Era of DIY Sheep Hunting

By Tyler Freel

A hunter kneels next to a buck he recovered with the help of two blood-tracking dogs.
Hunting

Mississippi Hunter Grunts in 14-Point Drop-Tine Buck

By Bob McNally

A crossbow hunter poses with an 11-point buck tagged in Ohio.
Hunting

Ohio Crossbow Hunter Gets Her Target Buck Along with a ‘Touch of Frostbite’

By Bob McNally

Rowdy Galjour poses with a large whitetail buck.
Hunting

Hunter Makes Surprise Shot on Wary Mississippi Buck During the Rut

By Bob McNally

An Ohio hunter kneels next to a 13-point buck.
Hunting

Hunter Finally Tags 13-Point Buck That He and His Neighbors Kept Missing

By Bob McNally

A remnant of a woolly mammoth tusk rests on the ground in Alaska.
Hunting

The Earliest Alaskans Built Hunting Camps Along Woolly Mammoth Migration Routes

By Katie Hill

A mountain lion tom peeks through some branches.
Conservation

Colorado Cancels April Mountain Lion Season Amid Anti-Hunting Opposition

By Dac Collins

doe lies on ground next to truck with broken windshield
Hunting

This Happened to Me: I Shot a Doe. It Jumped on My Truck and Smashed My Windshield

By Cheyne Matzenbacher, as told to Katie Hill

john bralley with leucistic buck
Hunting

Hunter’s First Deer Is an Old, 8-Point Leucistic Buck

By Katie Hill

A mature whitetail buck sniffs the air in Tennessee.
Hunting

Deer Hunter Success Rates Vary as Southeast Hunters Punch Tags, Northeast Hunters Eat Tag Soup

By Dac Collins

hunter with world record muskox
Hunting

Hunter Tags Pending World-Record Muskox on First Day of Nunavut Hunt

By Katie Hill

An Arkansas deer hunter takes a selfie with the biggest buck he's ever killed.
Hunting

Arkansas Hunter Tags Stud Buck, Packs It Out in His Hoodie

By Dac Collins

A herd of winter elk feeding in a field at sunset.
Conservation

New ‘Elk Rent’ Program to Pay Ranchers Each Day Herds Are on Their Land

By Andrew McKean

pankey bullwinkle buck
Hunting

Hunter’s Chase for ‘Bullwinkle’ Buck Ends with 5 Days Left in the Season

By Bob McNally

bowhunter two bucks ten seconds
Hunting

Bowhunter Arrows Two Big Bucks in 2 Minutes, Watches Them Fall in the Same Spot

By Hayden Sammak