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Two hunters on a cliff edge attempt to haul a mountain goat up.

Big Game Hunting

A ‘Dream’ Hunt for Mountain Goats Means Whitewater, Sheer Cliffs, and Tough Shots

Written and Illustrated by Harry S. Lin

Mikey Stovall holds a pintail. He was

7 Hunting Buddies Died in the American Airlines Plane Crash. They Were Returning from a Duck Hunt

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of Roy Chapman Andrews shooting a charging boar.

Big Game Hunting

I Faced Man-Eating Tigers, Vicious Wild Boar, and Roaming Bandits in Korea

By Roy Chapman Andrews

A sunset over Holloman Lake.

Waterfowl Hunting

After Record Levels of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Were Found in a New Mexico Lake, Hunters Are Urged to Contact Their Doctors

A Massachusets hunter with a big buck.

Middle-School Teacher Tags the Biggest Typical Buck Killed in Massachusetts in a Decade

The Best Turkey Blinds

The Best Turkey Blinds

By Jace Bauserman, Alice Jones Webb

A group of bull elk stand in the snow.

Big Game Hunting

Conservation Groups, Hunters Fight Off Bill That Would Have Let Wyoming Landowners Sell Their Big-Game Tags for a Profit

By Kris Millgate

An illustration of a man in a fur lined hood and a growling husky

Big Game Hunting

My Best Sled Dog Tangled with Polar Bears, Hunted Birds, and Saved My Life More Times Than I Can Count

By Frank Dufresne

A mule deer buck in Wyoming.

Hunting Big Bucks Year After Year Helps Curb Chronic Wasting Disease, Study Shows

By Natalie Krebs

How to Call Coyotes: The Howls & Calling Strategies You Need to Know

By Rich Higgins

A pointing dog on point

How a Feud Between Two Pointers Turned Them into True Quail Dogs

By Charles Elliott

Two whitetail bucks.

6 Buck Harvest Trends That Deer Hunters Should Know

By Josh Honeycutt

An illustration of a hunter about to shoot a bull moose.

We Were Charged by a Bull on Our Late-Season Moose Hunt

By Russell Annabel

Sandhill cranes coming in for a landing

Waterfowl Hunting

In Wisconsin, Home of the Sandhill Crane Recovery, Legislators Are Now Considering a Hunt

By Andrew McKean

A treed mountain lion

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

By Natalie Krebs

We tested the best collars for dog training.

The Best Dog Training Collars, Tested and Reviewed

By Natalie Krebs

Best .410 turkey guns

Best .410 Turkey Guns of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

By Alex Robinson

A mule deer buck in snowy woods.

Big Game Hunting

Wyoming Lawmakers Want to Quadruple Hunting License Application Fees

A mountain lion sneaks up on a pair of hunters.

Predator 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.

Big Game Hunting

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.

Black Bear 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.

Big Game 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.

Mule Deer Hunting

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

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

I Was Attacked by a Timber Wolf

Four deer lit up with a thermal on a prairie.

Big Game Hunting

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.

Why Duck Hunters Die

By Alex Robinson

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

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.

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.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

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.

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

An illustration of a setter on point in the snow.

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

By Floyd A. Baker

Author setting up the best duck decoys.

The Best Duck Decoys

By Alex Robinson

Football players get ready for the snap.

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

A bowhunter with a giant Rocky Mountain bull elk.

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

A hunter with a big Kansas whitetail buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

rooster pheasants

Pheasant 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

Whitetail Deer 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

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

Evans and Standley with their giant wolf

Alaska Trappers Catch One of the Biggest Wolves Ever Recorded

How to Find and Hunt Grouse in Successional Habitat

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.

The Best Stories of 2024

A collage of big bucks from 2024.

The Biggest Bucks of 2024

A Kansas rifle hunter with a big elusive buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

whitetail does in snow

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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.

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.

The Best Wild Rabbit Recipes

By Alice Jones Webb

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

Whitetail Deer 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.

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

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.

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

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

By Natalie Krebs

A hunter kneels beside a nice buck

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

best motion duck decoys

The Best Motion Duck Decoys, Field Tested and Reviewed

By Alex Robinson

An older whitetail buck, bedded

Whitetail Deer Hunting

9 Ways Old Bucks Behave Differently Than Younger Deer

By Josh Honeycutt

A trail camera photo of a giant deer.

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

Fred bear stone sheep

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

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Alex Robinson

Black Bear Hunting

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

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

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

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

Carmichel in Arizona: How to Hunt an Inaccessible Desert Bighorn

By Jim Carmichel

Freel and Miller Drag a Buck

Mule Deer Hunting

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

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

Wild Game Recipes

The Best Squirrel Recipes

By Alice Jones Webb

Ashley Matchett and Chris Janeski

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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