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Hunting tips and in-depth stories on hunting for deer, turkeys, waterfowl, big-game and more.

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A treed mountain lion
Conservation

Anti-Hunters Seek to Ban All Hunting with Hounds in Arizona

By Natalie Krebs

We tested the best collars for dog training.
Gear

The Best Dog Training Collars, Tested and Reviewed

By Natalie Krebs

Best .410 turkey guns
Guns

Best .410 Turkey Guns of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

By Alex Robinson

A mule deer buck in snowy woods.
Hunting

Wyoming Lawmakers Want to Quadruple Hunting License Application Fees

By Dac Collins

A mountain lion sneaks up on a pair of hunters.
Hunting

My Buddy Called in a Mountain Lion. It Attacked Before He Ever Saw It

By Reed Peterson

A bull elk bugles on the side of a hill behind two cows.
Conservation

Colorado Is Switching Its Big-Game Draw. Here’s Why Hunters with Preference Points Are Short-Changed

By Natalie Krebs

A Louisiana hunter with a black bear he harvested.
Hunting

Veteran Tags Potential Record Black Bear During Louisiana’s First Bear Season in Decades

By Jonathan Olivier

An illustration of Jim Carmichel and an Iranian game warden.
Hunting

Carmichel in the Middle East: Risking Our Lives to Hunt Iranian Ibex

By Jim Carmichel

A lone mule deer buck stands on a snowy ridge.
Hunting

Why Mule Deer Are North America’s Greatest Big-Game Animal

By Kubie Brown

A pencil drawing of a timber wolf pinning down a hunter who is scrabbling for his rifle.
Hunting

I Was Attacked by a Timber Wolf

By Al Wolter

Four deer lit up with a thermal on a prairie.
Conservation

Survey: Idaho Big-Game Hunters Would Ban Drones and Thermals, But Keep Most Other Tech

By Andrew McKean

An illustration of a duck hunter paddling in a windswept lake.
Hunting

Why Duck Hunters Die

By Alex Robinson

Three wolves stand together on the top of a snowy hill.
Conservation

Podcast: Wolves Will Be Delisted, Public-Land Transfer Attempts Will Fail, and Other 2025 Predictions

By Andrew McKean

A young boy in a blaze orange hat poses with a large black bear.
Hunting

Sixth Grader Tags Nearly 600-Pound Black Bear While Hunting with His Grandpa

By Alice Jones Webb

A nice Ohio buck with a unicorn antler.
Hunting

‘I Hadn’t Shot a Deer All Year.’ Hunter Tags Unicorn Buck in the Final Days of Muzzleloader Season

By Bob McNally

coyote hunting
Hunting

How to Hunt Coyotes: A Crash Course in Coyote Hunting Across the Country

By Tom Carpenter, Colton Heward

Two Irish hunters crawl after curlew in an illustration.
Hunting

I Moved to Ireland, Where Snipe are the Ultimate Game Bird

By Nord Riley

An illustration of a setter on point in the snow.
Hunting

A Young Pup, an Old Setter, and a Point I’ll Never Forget

By Floyd A. Baker

Author setting up the best duck decoys.
Gear

The Best Duck Decoys of 2025

By Alex Robinson

Football players get ready for the snap.
Hunting

Patriots Hall-of-Famer Caught Turkey Hunting Behind Stadium Says ‘I Hunted that Property Forever’

By Dac Collins

A bowhunter with a giant Rocky Mountain bull elk.
Hunting

Bowhunter with 86 Bulls to His Credit Tags a Pending World-Record Elk

By Dac Collins

A hunter with a big Kansas whitetail buck.
Hunting

Army Vet Gets His First Whitetail Buck on Last Day of the Season, and It’s a 19-Point Giant

By Bob McNally

rooster pheasants
Hunting

A Manhattan Legislator Aims to End New York’s Pheasant Stocking Program. Here’s Why All Bird Hunters Should Be Concerned

By Alex Robinson

deer hunting
Hunting

16 Deer Hunting Mistakes You Won’t Make Again Next Season

By Josh Honeycutt

A 16-year-old holds up moose antlers against a blue sky in a vintage photo
Hunting

Instead of Staying Home for the Holidays, My Daughter Wanted to Go Moose Hunting

By Bob Cary

Evans and Standley with their giant wolf
Hunting

Alaska Trappers Catch One of the Biggest Wolves Ever Recorded

By Tyler Freel

How to Find and Hunt Grouse in Successional Habitat
Hunting

How to Find and Hunt Grouse in Successional Habitat

By Derek Horner

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

The Best Stories of 2024

By The Editors

A collage of big bucks from 2024.
Hunting

The Biggest Bucks of 2024

By Dac Collins

A Kansas rifle hunter with a big elusive buck.
Hunting

Kansas Soldier Ditches His Tree Stand and Tags Elusive ‘Ghost’ Buck from the Ground

By Bob McNally

whitetail does in snow
Conservation

Chronic Wasting Disease Still Confounds Researchers. But Some Important New Clues Have Emerged

By Christine Peterson

Two hunters stand in a snowy road with a beagle.
Hunting

The Year My Family Skipped Traditional Christmas to Hunt and Fish Was Our Best Yet

By Erwin A. Bauer

Two pieces of golden fried rabbit sit on a white dinner plate next to a pile of mashed potatoes.
Hunting

The Best Wild Rabbit Recipes

By Alice Jones Webb

A photo of CJ Alexander with huge Ohio deer with text overlaid.
Hunting

Podcast: What We Should Learn from the Craziest Poaching Case of the Year

By Alex Robinson

If you can't get access to the field geese are feeding in, you must get under them.
Hunting

How to Hunt Late-Season Canada Geese When You Can’t Get on the X

By Joe Genzel

breda shotgun
Guns

 Breda B3.5SM Review: The Italian Shotgun You Haven’t Heard of, But Should Know About

By Alex Robinson

A hunter with a tall-tined illinois buck.
Hunting

Illinois Hunter Shoots 184-Inch Buck While Sitting in a Lawn Chair

By Bob McNally

A blue goose.
Hunting

How to Handle and Freeze Birds You Plan to Mount, According to a Taxidermist

By Natalie Krebs

A hunter kneels beside a nice buck
Hunting

Indiana Bowhunter Used a Spreadsheet to Help Kill This 184-Inch Buck

By Bob McNally

best motion duck decoys
Hunting

The Best Motion Duck Decoys, Field Tested and Reviewed 

By Alex Robinson

An older whitetail buck, bedded
Hunting

9 Ways Old Bucks Behave Differently Than Younger Deer

By Josh Honeycutt

A trail camera photo of a giant deer.
Hunting

Rookie Crossbow Hunter’s First Buck Is a 200-Class Nontypical Monster

By Bob McNally

Fred bear stone sheep
Hunting

Fred Bear Took His World-Record Stone Sheep with the ‘Best Shot I’ll Ever Make’

By Fred Bear, as told to Byron W. Dalrymple

pennsylvania buck
Hunting

Podcast: What We Get Wrong About Whitetails, with Jeff Sturgis

By Alex Robinson

Lester Harvey
Hunting

‘He Was Just Getting His Dog.’ Virginia Houndsman Dies After a Black Bear Falls on Him in Freak Hunting Accident

By Katie Hill

A big 10-point buck in the back of a UTV.
Hunting

Kansas Farmer Tags What Could Be One of the Top 5 Archery Bucks Ever Taken in the State

By Bob McNally

A hunter in a wide-brimmed hat kneeling behind a gray desert bighorn.
Hunting

Carmichel in Arizona: How to Hunt an Inaccessible Desert Bighorn

By Jim Carmichel

Freel and Miller Drag a Buck
Hunting

Hunter Amnesia: What It Is, and How You Can Avoid It

By Tyler Freel

Three dressed squirrels are nestled in a crock pot with onions and celery.
Hunting

The Best Squirrel Recipes

By Alice Jones Webb

Ashley Matchett and Chris Janeski
Hunting

On Her First Successful Deer Hunt with Her Husband, Hunter Shoots a Super Wide Pennsylvania Buck

By Bob McNally

Human hands stretch out a giant bear paw.
Survival

I Fought Off a Brown Bear with My Fishing Rod, and Other Close Calls While Living in Remote Alaska

By Scott Haugen

A man holds up the rack of a large 14 point whitetail buck as the sun sets behind him.
Hunting

Tyler Jordan Tags a 200-Class Louisiana Buck That Could Be the New State Record

By Alice Jones Webb

An Oklahoma bowhunter with a 17-point buck.
Hunting

An Oklahoma Bowhunter Heard Rumors That the 180-Class Buck He’d Been Hunting for Years Had Been Hit by a Car. They Weren’t True

By Bob McNally

A hunter with a rooster and his dog.
Hunting

Podcast: How to Miss Fewer Birds

By Natalie Krebs

Two whitetail shoulder mounts hang on a white wall.
Hunting

A Son Finally Tracked Down His Dad’s Long-Lost Buck. It’s the Biggest Typical Whitetail Ever Killed in Kansas

By Alice Jones Webb

Boone and Crockett Club have declared javelina as a new trophy big game species.
Hunting

Boone and Crockett Accepts Javelina as the Continent’s Newest Trophy Species, the First Addition in Nearly 25 Years

By Andrew McKean

A bowhunter in the woods with a nice buck.
Hunting

Bowhunter Tries a Closer Setup, Draws on a Huge Buck While Surrounded by Does

By Bob McNally

an illustration of two hunters and a deer
Hunting

The Biggest Mishaps of My Deer-Hunting Career, by Jim Zumbo

By Jim Zumbo

Learning how to skin a deer is relatively easy, all you need is a sharp knife.
Hunting

How to Skin a Deer, Step by Step

By Natalie Krebs

A hunter with a big Pennsylvania buck.
Hunting

Pennsylvania Hunter Tags a 170-Class Public-Land Buck on a Family Deer Drive

By Bob McNally

late season whitetail
Hunting

Tips for Patterning and Hunting a Late-Season Buck

By Josh Honeycutt

A bowhunter with a big Indiana buck.
Hunting

Bowhunter Tags the Biggest Buck of Her Life in Indiana While Hunting a New Spot

By Bob McNally

A duck hunter shakes his fist at a sky full of ducks.
Survival

It Should’ve Been the Best Mallard Hunt of Our Lives. Instead, We Almost Died

By James D. Nunnally

An Ohio hunter with a buck he tagged during the rifle opener.
Hunting

Ohio Rifle Hunter Makes His Second Shot Count, Tags a 22-Pointer on Opening Day

By Bob McNally