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Guns
Struggling to Hit Birds? Try This Midseason Shotgun Tune-Up
Bust some clays to get back in the groove before your next upland or waterfowl hunt
By Joe GenzelOctober 29, 2020

Guns
Rifle Mistakes You Should Definitely Avoid This Hunting Season
By John B. Snow
Open Country
USDA Strips Tongass Roadless-Rule Protections, Favoring Subsidized Logging Interests Over Hunters, Anglers, and Wildlife
Bjorn Dihle
Hunting
An Ohio Hunter’s First Buck May Be a Record-Book Whitetail
By Joe Genzel

GEAR

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TIPS AND TACTICS

Guns

Rifle Mistakes You Should Definitely Avoid This Hunting Season

Hunting

Forget What You Thought You Knew About Hunting Mature Whitetail Bucks (and Start Having More Success)

Hunting

The Complete Guide to Hunting Elk in Eastern States

Hunting

Hunting the Wood Duck Migration: Northern vs. Southern Tactics

Hunting

A Good Squirrel Hunt Will Prepare You for a Lifetime of Bigger Game

Hunting

Ryan Williams Spends the Winter Hunting Wolves in the Idaho Wilderness. Here’s What We Can Learn From Him

Hunting

How to Prevent Freezer Burn and How to Deal With It on Wild Game

Hunting

In the Future: Hunters Will Geek Out on Soil Science

Hunting

The Newbie’s Guide to Hunting Pronghorn

Hunting

6 Blood Trailing Lessons Learned from Trained Tracking Dogs

Hunting

Want to Hunt Sandhill Cranes? You’re Going to Need Stealth, Ultra Realistic Decoys—and Dog Goggles

Hunting

Hunting Pre-Rut Whitetails: When Should You Get Aggressive?

“The most successful hunters I know, work the hardest at scouting.”

–Fred Zink, 12 Rules for Decoying Ducks and Geese

VIDEOS

Early-Season Buck Down in Wisconsin / The Early Game, Chapter 2: The Opener

Josh Dahlke of HuntStand media and Alex Robinson started out hunting extremely carefully during the first week of the Wisconsin archery season.

First Look: Springfield Armory Model 2020 Waypoint

The Waypoint comes in four different configurations and is available in four different chamberings. It can be had in 6.5 PRC, .308 Win., 6.5mm Creedmoor, and 6mm Creedmoor, and comes with either a steel or carbon-fiber barrel, and a stock with an adjustable cheek piece or one that is fixed.