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Hunting

Kentucky Bowhunter Tags Giant Buck After His Wife Has a Vision About How to Kill It

By Dac Collins

A young football player from Indiana shot a nice deer after his game.
Hunting

Sixth Grader Tags His Dad’s Target Buck While Still Wearing His Football Uniform

By Natalie Krebs

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Hunting

Tips from The Hunting Public: How to Hunt Whitetails on the Prairie

By Derek Horner

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Hunting

How to Estimate a Buck’s Age (and Why Aging Deer Matters)

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Eighth Grader Arrows a 238-Inch Buck, Likely the Biggest Non-Typical Ever Killed by a Youth Hunter in Kentucky

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Watch This 6-Year-Old Call in a Trophy Bull with a Cardboard Tube

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

Brutal Beating in Elk Country: Authorities Identify Suspects Who Allegedly Assaulted Two Hunters in Wyoming

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

One of the Biggest Archery Bucks Ever Taken in Missouri Gets Green Scored

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Spear Hunter Kills Whitetail Buck from the Ground. Here’s How She Did It

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

The No Excuses Deer Hunting Season

By Will Brantley, Tony Hansen

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Hunting

Tips from THP: Sometimes Hunting Public Land Gets Sketchy, Like When Gunshots Are Followed by Bone Chilling Screams

By Derek Horner

Bull elk bugling on a hunt.
Hunting

I Shot the Wrong Bull, and It Was Still the Best Day I Ever Spent in the Woods

By Charles Elliott

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Hunting

Dr. Grant Woods on How to Use Trail Cam Artificial Intelligence to Improve Your Deer Hunting

By Alex Robinson

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Conservation

Video: Bull Moose Have Brutal Fight in Family’s Driveway—Then One Jumps Into a Pickup Truck

By Tyler Freel

Anthony Peoples with his big whitetail buck
Hunting

Missouri Recurve Hunter Tags Massive Buck That “Can’t Be Killed”

By Katie Hill

The Migrations Issue of Outdoor Life Is Here
Hunting

The Migrations Issue of Outdoor Life Is Here

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Crossbow Hunter Tags 240-Inch Buck, One of the Biggest in Ohio Buckmasters Records

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Ohio Hunter Tags Stud Buck from Small Property After Getting Permission from Landowner

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

This High-Fence Bull Elk Could Break an SCI World Record. It Scores More Than 648 Inches

By Dac Collins

Kainen Rednour shot a 12-point whitetail
Hunting

9-Year-Old Crossbow Hunter Tags a Stud 12-Point Buck Shedding Velvet

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

The 10 Best Tasting Wild Game Animals

By Brad Fenson

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Hunting

Tips from The Hunting Public: How to Locate Big Whitetail Bucks on Public Land in Kansas

By Derek Horner

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Hunting

Inside the Mind of the Big Buck Serial Killer

By Josh Honeycutt

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Hunting

Your “Best” Deer Might Be the One You Pass

By Perry Johnson

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Hunting

Crossbow Hunter Becomes First Person to Harvest a Deer in Chicago in Over 150 Years

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

How to Beat the Dreaded October Lull

By Mark Melotik, Tony Hansen

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Guns

Can Air Rifles Effectively Kill Big Game? In Short, Yes

By Jim Chapman

Trophy class buck poached in Pennsylvania.
Hunting

Someone Poached This Big Pennsylvania Buck Near a Federal Prison

By Natalie Krebs

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Hunting

50 Places Where Big Bucks Live

By Josh Honeycutt

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Hunting

Randy Ulmer Tags Another Stud Mule Deer in the Colorado High Country

By Dac Collins

The spectacular Dall ram taken by Jerry Lees
Hunting

Alaskan DIY Hunter Tags the Ram of a Lifetime

By Tyler Freel

A bowhunter with a giant San Carlos Arizona bull.
Hunting

Chad Mendes Tags a Dinosaur Desert Bull in Southern Arizona

By Natalie Krebs

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Hunting

Tips from THP: How to Hunt Public Land Whitetails in Open Country

By Derek Horner

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Hunting

A Five-Year Stalk for a Record Whitetail, From the Archives

By Al Dawson

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Hunting

Deer Tracking Dog Secrets That Will Help You Recover Your Buck

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Don’t Aim for a Deer’s Head

By Lindsay Thomas Jr.

Alberta bowhunter ends up with arrow lodged in leg
Hunting

“10 Inches of Arrow Were in My Leg.” Bowhunter Suffers Freak Accident on Elk Hunt

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

The Biggest Nontypical Whitetails of All Time

By PJ DelHomme

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Hunting

Hunter Wounds Buck, Then Recovers It Hours Later After It’s Hit By a Car

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Close Calls and Second-Guesses: Frustrating Hunts Happen to Everyone

By Tyler Freel

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Hunting

Monster Velvet Bucks from Kentucky and Tennessee

By Josh Honeycutt

Jonathon Stuart and his 2022 whitetail buck
Hunting

Kentucky Bowhunter Tags Tall-Antlered Buck

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

Kansas Hunter Tags Giant 230-Inch Buck During Early Muzzleloader Season

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

The Best Times to Hunt the Whitetail Rut This Season

By Michael Hanback

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Gear

The Best Deer Decoys

By Adam Moore

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Hunting

I Ditched a Bogus Outfitter for a Real Trophy Moose Hunt, From the Archives

By William N. Roach

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Conservation

Famous Bull Moose Killed in Fight with Even Bigger Bull

By Bjorn Dihle

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Hunting

Why I Hunt the Whitetail Rut by Moon Phase—and You Should Too

By Michael Hanback

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Hunting

Tips from The Hunting Public: How to Hunt Whitetails in Public Land River Bottoms

By Derek Horner

Bowhunter from a treestand.
Hunting

What If Grizzly Bears Killed as Many Hunters as Treestand Accidents Do?

By Katie Hill, Alex Robinson

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Survival

Attacked on the Nushagak: When a Moose Hunter Gets Pinned by a Brown Bear, It’s Up to His Hunting Partner to Save His Life

By Dac Collins

Your First Elk Hunt: What Rifle Should You Bring?
Guns

Your First Elk Hunt: What Rifle Should You Bring?

By John B. Snow

Paul Martens with his mule deer buck.
Hunting

Saskatchewan Hunter Arrows Moose-Like Buck, Gets Heat Exhaustion

By Katie Hill

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Hunting

Crossbow Hunter Tags 175-Inch East Tennessee Buck in Velvet

By Josh Honeycutt

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Hunting

Bowhunter Tags a 225-Inch Monster Buck on Vermejo Ranch

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

The Milo Hanson Buck: How Long Can the Whitetail World Record Stand?

By Alex Robinson, Andrew McKean, Jim Zumbo

Straight walls could supplant slug guns.
Guns

Will Straight-Wall Deer Rifles Kill the Slug Gun?

By Brad Fitzpatrick

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Hunting

Ram of Pilot Mountain: The Story of Jack O’Connor’s Biggest Sheep

By Jack O’Connor

Grant Woods sold America's most famous whitetail property, the "Proving Grounds."
Conservation

Grant Woods Just Sold the “Proving Grounds.” Here’s What He Learned from Building One of the Most Famous Whitetail Properties in America

By Katie Hill

The Tactacam XB has the best picture quality.
Hunting

Is Hunting with Cellular Trail Cameras Fair Chase or Cheating?

By Alex Robinson

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Hunting

Texas Man Catches His First Alligator, and It’s a Mossy-Tailed Beast

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Two Giant, 13-Foot Alligators Taken from South Carolina Lakes in One Day

By Bob McNally

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Hunting

Hunter Tags Nearly 30-Inch-Wide “Super Freak” Pronghorn on Opening Day

By Dac Collins

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Survival

Bowhunter Nearly Gored to Death by a Bull Moose He Missed

By Katie Hill