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Pennsylvania deer

Whitetail Deer Hunting

PA Hunters Take 3 Deer from the Same Stand on Opening Day (and One Was a Giant Buck)

Old BW photo of hunters with car, hunter walking in marsh

I Learned to Hunt Ducks Like an Old-School North Dakotan

A buck watches a hunter.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I’ve Been Hunting Deer for 40 Years. These Are the Biggest Mistakes I’ve Seen Them Make

Photographs of the best bucks of 2025 on a bulletin board

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Biggest Bucks of 2025

A snowshoe rabbit looking at a tent copyrighted

I Agreed to Hunt Snowshoe Hares — and Regretted It Almost Instantly

Two old color photographs of mule deer hunters

Mule Deer Hunting

We Miraculously Got Permission to Hunt a Secret Canyon and Had the Best Deer Hunt of Our Lives

By Chester Chatfield

An illustration of two deer fighting in front of a doe.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

How My Family Took 7 Vermont Bucks in a Single, Unforgettable Season

By Harold Willey Jr.

I Promised to Take My Boys Rabbit Hunting Every Day of Christmas Break

By Erwin A. Bauer

Christmas cards for your best hunting buddies.

4 Christmas Cards Pat McManus Always Wanted to Send His Hunting Buddies, But Couldn’t

By Patrick F. McManus

A dog wearing goggles fetches up a rooster.

After My Bird Dog Was Nearly Blinded, This Ridiculous Piece of Gear Is the One Thing I’ll Never Hunt Without

By Natalie Krebs

A limit of drake mallards on a log beside a row of expensive duck loads.

Is More Expensive Duck Ammo Actually Worth It? I Put Some of the Top Loads to the Test

By Alex Robinson

crossbow testing

The Best Bows, Crossbows, and Archery Gear of 2025, Based on In-Depth Range Testing

By Scott Einsmann

A Wisconsin hunter and a huge typical buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Wisconsin Hunter Tags One of the Biggest Typical Bucks in State History During Extended Gun Season

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Dreamt a Brown Bear Was in My Tent. Then One Actually Walked into Camp

By John B. Snow

Kuiu was sold to a private equity group.

Rumors Are Swirling About Kuiu Being Sold to an Anti-Public Lands Billionaire. Here’s What’s Actually Going On

By Natalie Krebs

calling coyotes with best coyote calibers

The Best Coyote Calibers

Waterfowl Hunting

I Almost Completed the North American Waterfowl Slam by Luck. Here’s Why I Think Obsessing Over the 41 Is a Bit Ridiculous

By Scott Haugen

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Big Game Hunting

Podcast: Our Senior Staff Writer Nearly Died on a Backcountry Hunt. Here’s What We’ve Learned from the Experience

By Alex Robinson

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Big Game Hunting

Photos of Jack O’Connor’s Perfect Winchester Model 70

A photo of a buck in a snowy field.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

A Pennsylvania Hunter Had His “Buck of a Lifetime” Stolen. So Why Are People Blaming Him?

A tannery employee holds up mountain lion hides ready for shipping

Big Game Hunting

24 Incredible Photos from the Last Great Tannery in America

By Alex Robinson

An Indiana hunter with a big buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Indiana Hunter Tags Giant 190-Class Buck After Watching Him for 4 Years — and Missing Him Once

best late season duck hunts

The 7 Best Late-Season Duck Hunts

By M.D. Johnson

A hunter gored by a buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Almost Lost My Eye While Wrestling a Buck

An illustration of a train in snow with griz tracks

Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Guided Teddy Roosevelt and Zane Grey, But This Grizzly Hunt Was One I’ll Never Forget

The author with a nice whitetail deer reaped with his bow and decoy.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 5 Rules of Reaping Whitetail Deer

By Derek Horner

an illustration of a sheep hunter falling down a slope

This Happened to Me: I Almost Froze to Death on a Solo Bighorn Hunt

By Cassidy Caron, as told to Scott Einsmann

A North Dakota hunter with a rare white pheasant.

Pheasant Hunting

North Dakota Hunter Bags a Rare, Snow-White Pheasant on a Frigid Winter Day

A hunting party posing with a musk ox.

Big Game Hunting

Hunting Musk Ox and Caribou in Greenland Was Nothing Like I Imagined

By Andrew McKean

two polaroids with brett favre and his mule deer buck

Mule Deer Hunting

I Took Brett Favre on His First Mule Deer Hunt

By John B. Snow

A Wisconsin hunter with a big buck on opening day; a young hunter with he first deer, also tagged on opening day.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Shot a Big Wisconsin Buck Just Seconds Before a Young Hunter Tagged Her First Deer

By Kasey Okrzesik

A bird dog sits in a passenger seat with an arrow in its armpit.

My Bird Dog Caught a Broadhead Arrow to the Chest While Pointing Quail

By Kris Millgate

A hunter in blue overalls sits behind a tree looking at a deer in this illustration.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Shot My First Buck on the Run, During a Low-Country Deer Drive

By John Wongrey

allyson rosier buck

Whitetail Deer Hunting

“I Hope My Baby Grows Up to Be a Deer Hunter.” Pregnant Woman Shoots 190-Class Buck on the Last Day of the Season

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Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Happened to Me: I Butchered a Deer in My Brooklyn Apartment and the Cops Came

By Alex Robinson

an old photograph of a hunter in a yellow canoe with a nice buck

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Want to Kill a Great Late-Season Buck? Float a River

Whitetail Deer Hunting

3 Incredible Stories of Snow Tracking Bucks in the Big Woods

By Hal Blood, Ralph P. Stuart

Three police cars by a white pickup in Antelope Valley.

I Found a Human Skull While Rabbit Hunting Near Los Angeles

By Chris Grillot

A hunter holds up a big Virginia buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Hunter Tags a Giant Buck Four Hours Away, Makes It Home Just in Time for Thanksgiving Dinner

A rifle hunter with a giant Maine buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Maine Fisherman Bleats in Giant Swamp Buck While Hunting on the Ground, ‘Just Like My Grandfather Did’

doe lies on ground next to truck with broken windshield

Whitetail Deer Hunting

After I Shot a Deer, It Leapt on My Truck and Smashed My Windshield

By Cheyne Matzenbacher

A protester speaks out against bear hunting during a rally.

Black Bear Hunting

This Group Is Paying Hunters $2,000 Not to Use Their Tags, in a Final Effort to Thwart Florida’s Bear Hunt

A hunter with a heavy Pennsylvania black bear.

Black Bear Hunting

Pennsylvania Hunter Tags Biggest Black Bear of the Season with His Wife’s Lucky Rifle

A bull elk in the brush.

Idaho Is Eliminating OTC Deer and Elk Tags for Nonresidents and Moving to a Draw System

By Kris Millgate

A Pennsylvania flintlock rifle with a compartment in the stock.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

19 Timeless Photos from Pennsylvania’s Flintlock Season, the Last of Its Kind in the Country

Photographs by Henry Hung, Story by Derek Horner

An old color photograph of two deer hunters in Mississippi.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Spent Thanksgiving with Southern Hunters Who Ran Deer Hounds. Here’s What I Learned

By Robert E. Price

A kid's first deer hunt in a Louisiana swamp in the 1960s.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

My Son’s First Trip to Deer Camp Was a Rite of Passage — for Both of Us

By Grits Gresham

Black Friday Deals Treestands, Blinds, Climbing Sticks, and Saddles

The 29 Best Black Friday Deals on Treestands, Blinds, and Climbing Sticks

By Derek Horner

An illustration of a boy riding a horse with his dog in front.

The Thanksgiving I Spent Alone in the Woods

Black Friday Deals on Meat Processing Equipment and Gear

Wild Game Recipes

The 32 Best Black Friday Deals on Meat Processing Equipment

By Derek Horner

Testing the Hoyt and Mathews whitetail bows

Black Friday Deals on Archery and Bowhunting Gear

By Scott Einsmann

An illustration of a grizzly bear tumbling down a mountain as hunters get out of the way.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

A Grizzly Stole My Son’s First Deer. So We Tracked the Bear Down

By William J. McRae

duck hunting waders

The 6 Best Deals on Duck Hunting Waders for Black Friday (Save Hundreds)

By Alex Robinson

A dog wearing a gps collar.

Black Friday Deals on Hunting Dog Gear

By Natalie Krebs

A crossbow hunter with a 14-point velvet buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

This 16-Point Velvet Buck Is a New Maryland State Record

I Shot the Biggest Roosevelt Elk of My Life on a Drive

By Scott Haugen

American Woodcock. (Photo by: Picturenow/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Upland Bird Hunting

I’ve Hunted Woodcock My Whole Life. I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This

By Henry S. Beverage

illustration of a deer hunter drawing

Mule Deer Hunting

How a New College Grad Found Direction from His Grandpa’s Deer Rifle

By Andrew McKean

Two bucks swimming across a pond

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Watch: The Craziest Rut Footage You’ll See All Year

By Natalie Krebs

Beretta suprema

Beretta AX800 Suprema Review: This Could Be the Ultimate Duck Hunting Semi-Auto

By Alex Robinson

An illustration of a giant double-beamed buck running away from horses in the snow.

I Tracked This Double-Beamed Buck for 8 Miles Across Ohio

By Paul Helser, as told to Ben East

An elk hunter with his bull elk and the rancher who stole it.

Watch: A Landowner Stole My Buddy’s Public-Land Elk to Deter Us from ‘Hunting This Outfit’

By Andrew McKean

deer walks uphill in brushy field

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Quit Treestands a Decade Ago. It Turns Out Hunting Whitetails from the Ground Is More Fun

By Andrew McKean

A giant Missouri buck.

He Almost Skipped the Hunt for His Son’s Homecoming, Then Shot a 200-Class Droptine