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A 7-year-old hunter and her dad with a bear, turkey, and buck.
Hunting

7-Year-Old Earns a Pennsylvania ‘Triple Trophy’ After Tagging a Black Bear, Buck, and Gobbler This Fall

By Natalie Krebs

moose sniffs barrel
Hunting

Video: Bull Moose Sniffs Hunter’s Rifle Barrel

By Richard P. Smith

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Hunting

Bowhunter Shoots Massive 770-Pound Record Black Bear in New Jersey 

By Bob McNally

Hunting Black Bears with a 6.5 Creedmoor
Hunting

Hunting Black Bears with the 6.5 Creedmoor

By Derek Horner

A brown bear turns to look at something.
Survival

Hunter Survives Brown Bear Attack and a Gunshot Wound on Kenai Peninsula

By Alice Jones Webb

A german shepherd lounging on a porch
Hunting

Minnesota Man Charged with Killing His Neighbor’s Dog While Under Investigation for Poaching Deer and Baiting Bears

By Alice Jones Webb

You Go I Stay feature story from Outdoor Life
Hunting

Fred Bear in Alaska: Bowhunting a World-Record Brown Bear

By Fred Bear, as told to Ben East

An illustration of an Outdoor Life story about a killer grizzly.
Hunting

My Months-Long Hunt for a Cattle-Killing Grizzly, from the Archives

By Jack Tooker

A grizzly bear in a meadow.
Hunting

Alberta Brings Back Grizzly Hunting, But Only for ‘Problem’ Bears

By Dac Collins

A grizzly bear eats an elk.
Conservation

Watch: Grizzly Bear Eats a Cow Elk That’s Still Alive

By Katie Hill

old magazine illustration (hunter shooting charging bear) and title
Hunting

The Hunt for a Man-Killing Black Bear, From the Archives

By Raymond R. Lyons

A screenshot of a video of a grizzly bear that looks like a black bear.
Hunting

Idaho Hunter Avoids Charges for Killing Grizzly Because State Wildlife Officials Misidentified the Bear, Too

By Dac Collins

A grizzly bear in the woods near Elkford, BC.
Survival

B.C. Black Bear Hunter Hospitalized After Killing a Grizzly in Self Defense

By Dac Collins

A Louisiana black bear in a field.
Bear Hunting

Louisiana Establishes Its First Black Bear Hunting Season Since 1987

By Dac Collins

old magazine pages
Hunting

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

By Cecil Rhode

hunter poses in woods with grizzly bear and longbow and arrows
Hunting

Killing a Grizzly the Old-Fashioned Way: With a Longbow and a Stone-Point Arrowhead

By Tyler Freel

old magazine illustration of hunter directing hounds in desert environment
Hunting

Ben Lilly and the Desert Grizzly, From the Archives

By Frank C. Hibben

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

I Killed the Last Grizzly in Colorado

By Ed Wiseman

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Survival

Houndsman Killed a 400-Pound Bear with a Knife to Save His Dog and Hunting Buddy

By Richard P. Smith

massive north carolina black bear feature
Bear Hunting

This Could Be the Heaviest Black Bear Ever Tagged in North Carolina

By Bob McNally