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Your “Best” Deer Might Be the One You Pass
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Big Game Hunting
How to Beat the Dreaded October Lull
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Big Game Hunting
Can Air Rifles Effectively Kill Big Game? In Short, Yes
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Big Game Hunting
Someone Poached This Big Pennsylvania Buck Near a Federal Prison
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Big Game Hunting
50 Places Where Big Bucks Live
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Big Game Hunting
Randy Ulmer Tags Another Stud Mule Deer in the Colorado High Country
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Big Game Hunting
Alaskan DIY Hunter Tags the Ram of a Lifetime
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Duck Hunting
How to Get Out of a Wingshooting Slump
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Big Game Hunting
Chad Mendes Tags a Dinosaur Desert Bull in Southern Arizona
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Big Game Hunting
Tips from THP: How to Hunt Public Land Whitetails in Open Country
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A Five-Year Stalk for a Record Whitetail, From the Archives
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Big Game Hunting
Deer Tracking Dog Secrets That Will Help You Recover Your Buck
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Big Game Hunting
Don’t Aim for a Deer’s Head
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Big Game Hunting
The Biggest Nontypical Whitetails of All Time
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Bear Hunting
Are Grizzlies and Polar Bears Hybridizing in Alaska?
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Big Game Hunting
Close Calls and Second-Guesses: Frustrating Hunts Happen to Everyone
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Big Game Hunting
Monster Velvet Bucks from Kentucky and Tennessee
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Big Game Hunting
Kentucky Bowhunter Tags Tall-Antlered Buck
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Big Game Hunting
The Best Times to Hunt the Whitetail Rut This Season
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Big Game Hunting
The Best Deer Decoys
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Big Game Hunting
Famous Bull Moose Killed in Fight with Even Bigger Bull
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Big Game Hunting
Why I Hunt the Whitetail Rut by Moon Phase—and You Should Too
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Double Barrel Shotguns
The Ruger Red Label: America’s Last Working-Class Over/Under
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Big Game Hunting
Your First Elk Hunt: What Rifle Should You Bring?
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Big Game Hunting
Saskatchewan Hunter Arrows Moose-Like Buck, Gets Heat Exhaustion
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Big Game Hunting
Crossbow Hunter Tags 175-Inch East Tennessee Buck in Velvet
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Big Game Hunting
Bowhunter Tags a 225-Inch Monster Buck on Vermejo Ranch
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Big Game Hunting
The Milo Hanson Buck: How Long Can the Whitetail World Record Stand?
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Ram of Pilot Mountain: The Story of Jack O’Connor’s Biggest Sheep
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Big Game Hunting
Is Hunting with Cellular Trail Cameras Fair Chase or Cheating?
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Big Game Hunting
Texas Man Catches His First Alligator, and It’s a Mossy-Tailed Beast
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Animal Attacks
Bowhunter Nearly Gored to Death by a Bull Moose He Missed
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An Alaskan Sheep Hunt Turns Into a 70-Mile Hike From Hell
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A Moose Hunt in the Unmapped Yukon, From the Archives
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