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We tested the best wool socks.
Camping Gear

The Best Wool Socks of 2025

Here are our top picks after testing merino socks along the Oregon Coast Trail

Camping rocking chairs are comfortable, sturdy, and relaxing—an upgrade for your next camping trip.
Camping Gear

The Best Camping Rocking Chairs of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

Make your next camping adventure even more relaxing with one of these rockers

The best camping kettles make boiling water or other things easier when you’re camping in the backcountry.
Camping Gear

The Best Camping Kettles for 2025

These best camping kettles picks boil water efficiently and pack comfortably

A fossil hunter with a shark's tooth; the fossil hunter recovers in the hospital.
Animal Attacks

Fossil Hunter Fights Off Gator Attack, with a Screwdriver, While Trapped Underwater

"I stabbed him in the eye. And when I did that, he shook me like a ragdoll"

Draw length measurement
Bow Hunting

How to Measure Draw Length

Learn how to measure and refine your draw length

A group of people harasses black bear cubs.
Conservation

Watch: Teen Drops and Injures Black Bear Cub After Pulling It Out of a Tree to Take Photos with It

“The cub appeared to be lethargic and frightened. It looked to be favoring one of its front paws and was wet and shivering”

The Best 2011 pistols were tested for accuracy and reliability.
Handguns

The Best 2011 Pistols of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

We tested a wide range of 2011s and double-stack 1911s to find the best values, the most accurate shooters, and to crown the best-overall handgun in this growing category

Piles of debris lay in the snowy Minnesota woods.
Big Game Hunting

Minnesota DNR Blew Up Illegal Tree Stands with Dynamite: ‘My Whole Place Shook’

‘It looks like hell. The wood’s all splintered. There’s nuts and bolts and nails blown and strewn all over the place. I don’t think it was appropriate’

A caribou stands in the Brooks Range, the proposed site of the Ambler Road.
Climate & Environment

BLM Moves to Block the Proposed Ambler Road in Alaska’s Brooks Range

Citing too many environmental risks to the region's game, fish, and water, the Department of the Interior recommends not building the private mining-access road

An air rifle sits behind a dropped squirrel.
Hunting Gear

The Best Air Rifles for Squirrels of 2025

Jim Chapman shares his picks for the best airguns to carry for squirrel season

Jack O'Connor, reclining in the grass while taking a break on a hunt.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Jack O’Connor’s Last Hunt, From the Archives

When Jack asked whether we could hunt whitetails together, I was overwhelmed. Little did I know this would be the legend's final outing

The 8-Mile wolf pack killed a cow elk at a high school in Monana.
Conservation

Yellowstone Wolves Kill Elk, Drag Carcass onto High School Football Field

Just another day in Montana

best grills
Gear

The Best Grills of 2025, Chosen By Our Editors

These are the hottest grills on the market and they’ve proven themselves over years of good cooking

A grizzly bear walks through snow near a fence.
Conservation

Wyoming Officials Euthanize First Grizzly Bear to Wander into Bighorn Mountains in a Century

The subadult male bruin predated a cow some 80 miles east of Wyoming’s known grizzly range

Chronic wasting disease hunter head dropoff container
Big Game Hunting

Viral Articles Claim Two ‘Hunters Died After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison.’ Here’s What Really Happened

There is no evidence that chronic wasting disease has jumped to humans

We tested the best humminbird fish finders.
Fishing Gear

The Best Humminbird Fish Finders of 2025

If you know you want a Humminbird, but aren't sure which one, this guide is for you

Anglers evacuate a float plane that crashed near the Chandeleur Islands.
Wilderness Survival

Charter Captain Rescues Floatplane Pilot and 3 Anglers Who Literally Crashed His Fishing Spot

'Their plane was sinking and that place is loaded with sharks'

280 Ackley Improved
Ammo

The 280 Ackley Improved Is Still One of the Greatest Western Big Game Cartridges

Flat-shooting, accurate, and mild-recoiling, the 70-year-old .280 AI still deserves props as one of the best all-around Western big-game cartridges

The Swarovski Visio smart binocular
Binoculars

Swarovski AX Visio Review: The Most Advanced, and Controversial, Birding Binocular

The new AX Visio combines AI, a GPS-informed compass, a digital field guide, and world-class glass in a $4,800 optic

A bull elk bugles in the woods.
Elk Hunting

Wisconsin Hunters Will Get More Chances to Hunt Elk This Fall

As Midwestern elk herds grow, Wisconsin is adding elk tags with a new hunt this fall.