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The right to hunt and fish is under petition in colorado to become a ballot measure.

Anti-Hunting Groups Keep Losing in These States. That’s No Accident

By Luke Hilgemann

A black and white photo of Jack O'Connor packing out a ram on horseback

The Invention of the Grand Slam Killed Sheep Hunting for the Everyman

By Jack O'Connor

Hunters on a mountain top

When People Ask Me Why I Hunt, This Is What I Try to Tell Them

a kid fishing in the bwca.

It’s a Dark Day for the Boundary Waters and the Future of Public Lands. Here’s How We Got Here

A close up of a wild turkey strutting in spring

This Viral Video Shows the Ugly Side of Turkey Reaping. It’s High Time to Reconsider Our Turkey Hunting Culture

By Alex Robinson

A wild turkey struts in a green spring field.

Turkey Hunting Is the Best Way to Introduce Someone to Hunting. Change My Mind

An angler holds a fat bunker.

The Most Important Baitfish in the Ocean Will Fast-Track You to the Fish of a Lifetime

Blue, black, and white illustrations of a bowhunter in NYC.

How a Born-and-Raised New Yorker Fell in Love with Bowhunting

A composite image of the BLM nominee Stevan Pearce

What’s So Bad About Stevan Pearce, Trump’s Pick to Run the BLM? For Starters, His Public-Land Track Record

By Andrew McKean

A photo illustration of a deer with the NYC skyline in the back

Things My Fellow New Yorkers Say When They Find Out I’m a Hunter

A lobbycard from the 1942 movie bambi

After Our Editor Saw an Early Screening of ’Bambi,’ He Warned Walt Disney the Movie Was ’the Worst Insult Ever Offered’ to Sportsmen

An annoyed doe looks into the camera.

I Started Hunting a Few Years Ago, and My Family Doesn’t Exactly Support It — Yet

Here’s Why Hunters Should Share the Wild Game We Harvest

By Shane Mahoney

public land duck hunting

Duck Hunting’s New Reality: It Will Keep Getting Tougher for the Workaday Waterfowler

By Alex Robinson

Barnes Harvest .223 ammo for deer

Here’s Why the .223 Remington Is the Most Underrated Deer Cartridge

Wisconsin trapper with furs, which will last longer than meat from game.

Hunting for Meat Is Widely Accepted. Wearing Fur from the Predators You Hunt and Trap Should Be, Too

A trapper with a beaver.

Why America Needs Trapping More Than Ever

Casual hunters don't have to spend every waking moment hunting to be valued by the community.

Quit Expecting Every Hunter to Be So Hardcore. We Need Casual Hunters, Too

By Christine Peterson

A fisherman releases a small brook trout in a rocky stream.

‘This Would Have Serious, Real-World Impacts.’ Why the EPA’s Rule Change on Water Protections Would Be a Disaster for Fish and Wildlife

A whitetail buck in a grassy field.

Why Trophy Deer Hunting Is a Trap