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![Master Shot Placement on Western Big Game](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/15/elkopener.jpg?w=675)
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Master Shot Placement on Western Big Game
![Reader Story: My First Buck Was This 13-Point Minnesota Giant](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/15/unnamed-1.jpg?w=338)
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Reader Story: My First Buck Was This 13-Point Minnesota Giant
![How to Train for a Western Hunt During an Ammo Shortage](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/15/6.8-Western-Cartridges.jpg?w=675)
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How to Train for a Western Hunt During an Ammo Shortage
![Packing out an Alaska moose is a chore.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/14/unnamed-scaled.jpg?w=600)
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The Most Efficient Way to Pack Out a Bull Moose
![texas buck](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/15/texasbuck.jpg?w=682)
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The South (Not the Midwest) Is the Best Region for Mature Bucks
![browningrifle](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/13/1278080.jpg?w=444)
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Choosing the Best Riflescope for Your Western Big-Game Rifle
![How to Set Up Your Western Big-Game Rifle](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/12/1278070.jpg?w=746)
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How to Set Up Your Western Big-Game Rifle
![The Weston Turner bucks were taken within 24 hours.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/12/616064acf0a5c.image_.jpg?w=806)
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Two Great Texas Bucks Tagged by New Bowhunter in 48 Hours
![Secrets of the Deer Hunting Gear Minimalist](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/16/NCBG27ID5JTDOZCIJSHR45IC2Q.jpg?w=600)
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Secrets of the Deer Hunting Gear Minimalist
![The best way to set up and elk bow.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/15/COOL-ELK-SHOT-scaled.jpg?w=675)
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How to Choose a Compound Bow—and Set It Up—for Elk Season
![Introducing A Child To A Deer Rifle](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/22/LBA5WE4AQDKJ5BSUUQTXGEBEC4.jpg?w=591)
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Introducing A Child To A Deer Rifle
![browning mountain pro in 6.8 western](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/08/X-Bolt-Mnt.-Pro-LR.jpg?w=600)
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How to Pick the Ideal Rifle for Hunting Big Game in the West
![Maine needs deer hunters to harvest more does.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/08/deer-1981535_1280.jpg?w=674)
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Maine Is Asking Whitetail Hunters to Kill More Does
![Sometimes you just have to make a move on a western buck.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/04/After-watching-movement-from-a-distance-the-author-rolled-the-dice-and-moved-in-tight-on-this-wester-buck.-scaled.jpg?w=338)
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8 Tips Treestand Deer Hunters Can Use to Kill Western Whitetails
![elk hunting preparation use good gear](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/JWLN5NLMN6OCAXIHWFRGRZJXQU.jpg?w=600)
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11 Ways to Start Preparing for Your Fall Elk Hunt in the Offseason
![four bucks standing in a field near a wire fence](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/21/FL65UL63CRPF6BFMFUIITJEHHY.jpg?w=600)
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Learn the 10 Habits of Highly Successful Deer Hunters
![The author shot this mule deer from a treestand.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/28/The-author-with-a-respectable-mule-deer-taken-from-a-treestand-during-the-late-November..jpg?w=608)
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How to Bowhunt Pronghorn, Mule Deer, and Elk from a Treestand
![Long range shooting in the field](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/21/Long4.jpg?w=600)
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Long-Range Shooting School for Hunters
![tweak a ballistic calculator](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/22/Maven-pt-6.jpg?w=675)
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How to Fine-Tune Your Dope for Long-Range Shooting
![The massive South Dakota Beadle buck, in the field.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/17/242164639_4507163029347261_8828716122261052573_n.jpg?w=800)
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South Dakota Bowhunter Tags a Giant 218-Inch Nontypical Buck
![Joe Lacefield's velvet buck from Kentucky.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/15/Velvet-1-Joe-Lacefield-KY-179-scaled.jpg?w=679)
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6 of the Biggest Kentucky Velvet Bucks from This Fall
![Southwest Georgia Bowhunter Takes Rare Piebald Buck](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/14/Tara-Jackson-Lilly-768x624-1.jpg?w=554)
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Southwest Georgia Bowhunter Takes Rare Piebald Buck
![After a deer got tangled in its own legs, an Arkansas hunter saved the buck.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/13/IMG_3634-scaled-e1631569093535.jpg?w=369)
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Arkansas Hunter Saves Buck That Gored Its Own Hind Leg
![The new possible record Pennsylvania elk.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/10/pa-ntelk-header-scaled.jpg?w=691)
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This 455-Inch Pennsylvania Elk Might Be the New State Record
![Making important bowhunting shots is the product of deliberate practice.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/03/The-end-result-of-months-and-months-of-purposeful-practice-scaled.jpg?w=600)
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How I Made the Most Important Bowhunting Shot of My Life
![Tule elk can only be found in California.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/02/tule-elk-scaled.jpeg?w=778)
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Volunteers Are Lugging Water for Miles to Save California’s Tule Elk
![Giant 200-Inch Velvet Mule Deer Buck Taken in Utah](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/29/IMG_4741.jpg?w=610)
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Giant 200-Inch Velvet Mule Deer Buck Taken in Utah
![EHD Could Take a Lethal Toll on Deer During Record Drought](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/23/qdma_ehd_1_574_327_s.jpg?w=574)
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EHD Could Take a Lethal Toll on Deer During Record Drought
![dan aadland rifles horseback](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/YYEFXWY7SZ7SYGNQ7HWVWGN3RU.jpg?w=600)
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5 Great Rifles for Horseback Hunts
![Have a plan for game meat care before you head afield this fall.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/09/COOL-ELK-SHOT-scaled.jpg?w=675)
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How to Properly Care for Wild Game Meat in the Field
![New York's current hunting laws prevents deer hunting after sunset.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/06/45502977892_aaec8c36c1_o-scaled.jpg?w=675)
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New York Should Let Hunters Shoot Deer During the Best Hunting Hours
![Here is how to set up the ultimate whitetail bow.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/22/Jace-Whitetail-Nebraska-scaled.jpg?w=674)
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How to Set Up the Ultimate Whitetail Compound Bow
![Two mountain goat hunters walk a ridge.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/15/DSC07154.jpg?w=675)
Lost in the Gloom: A Dream Mountain Goat Hunt Turns into a Nightmare
![You need to try different tactics for better public land success.](https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/12/Brodie-October-Buck.jpg?w=800)
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