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Two-year-old tom turkeys.
Turkey Hunting

Two-Year-Old Toms Are the Bad Boys of the Spring Turkey Woods. Here’s How to Hunt Them

Young toms are a gift from God. Here's what all turkey hunters should know about them

Jacob Fischer's world-record gar.
Record Fish

Teenage Bowfisherman Shoots World-Record Longnose Gar in Texas

Jacob Fisher shot the heaviest longnose gar on record while bowfishing with his dad on Lake Palestine in East Texas

The Migratory Bird conservation Commission approved $95 million for wetlands and wildlife refuges.
Public Lands & Waters

USFWS Will Add 5,600 Acres to Texas Wildlife Refuge, Plus Award $95 Million to National Conservation Projects

Meanwhile, organizations like Ducks Unlimited and state game agencies are chipping in $116 million to match the USFWS funds

with proper ammo, the cartridge can handle anything in North America.
Hunting Rifles

The Best Henry Lever-Action Rifles

Henry Repeating Arms had a 130-year gap in production, but its modern lever guns are some of the most popular in history. Here are our favorites

Hunters Who Challenged Wyoming Corner Crossing Rules Found “Not Guilty” of Criminal Trespassing
Public Lands & Waters

Hunters Who Challenged Wyoming Corner Crossing Rules Found “Not Guilty” of Criminal Trespassing

A civil suit being brought against the hunters still looms in federal court

CWD is a big issue in high-fence shooting areas.
Hunting

CWD Has Been Detected in 35 Captive Shooting Facilities in Pennsylvania, But More Than Half Still Have Deer. What Gives?

The NDA says this is "unacceptable," and that management of captive facilities should be returned to the state game agency. The goal? Protect wild deer from chronic wasting disease

The Taurus G3X compact 9mm
Handguns

The Taurus G3X Review: A Great Pistol for a Great Price

This unassuming compact 9mm was one of the highlights of our 2022 gun test, see how it did on the range

Brister invented this tow behind pattern board.
Shotguns

Three Things We Know About Shotgunning Thanks to the Legendary Bob Brister

Bob Brister was a sporting clays and live-pigeon champion who was known for his quirky and thought-provoking shotgun testing methods

Deer hunting could be legal on Sundays in Maine if this lawsuit is successful.
Wildlife Management

Hunters Are Suing to Overturn Maine’s Sunday Hunting Ban, Citing the “Right to Food” Amendment

But if Sunday hunting is allowed, many landowners may post their land to keep hunters out—resulting in a net loss of hunting opportunity

The Do-It-All .22 Rimfire Rifle: Savage’s A22 Precision 22LR
Rifles

The Do-It-All .22 Rimfire Rifle: Savage’s A22 Precision 22LR

As the “Precision” name signifies, the A22 Precision is an extremely accurate rifle.

The SL5 was built for turkey hunters.
Shotguns

Shotgun Review: Sauer’s SL5 Is an Inertia-Driven Auto-Loader Built Specifically for Turkey Hunters

Known for bolt-action rifles, German engineer Sauer teamed with Breda to build a lightweight semi-auto for the turkey woods

A whitetail deer herd killed by lightning.
Deer Hunting

Lightning Strike Kills Herd of Deer, a Wild Story from the OL Archives

A lightning strike wiped out a herd of deer in one of the craziest whitetail stories from the OL.com archives

The Stoeger M3000 Patterns well, but has some functionality issues.
Shotguns

Stoeger M3000 Shotgun Review

The Stoeger M3000 is an affordable, Turkish shotgun that points and shoots wonderfully—but not without some flaws

CZ TS 2 Racing Green 9mm
Handguns

CZ TS 2 Racing Green Review: This Is a Race Gun That Will Make You Smile

This new target pistol from CZ is competition ready, but anyone with a trigger finger will enjoy shooting it

A big bear paw from an Alaska bear.
Grizzly Bear Hunting

The Real Story Behind the Infamous “Alberta Grizzly”

Back in the days of chain emails, word got around about a killer grizzly taken by a hunter in Alberta. This is what actually happened

The Nighthawk Custom President is a top-shelf 1911
Handguns

Nighthawk Custom President: A Top-Shelf 1911 in .30 Super Carry

The Nighthawk Custom President in .30 Super Carry is a premium pistol at a premium price—and it's a helluva lot of fun to shoot

Hunting wild hogs in Georgia.
Predator Hunting

Diehard Hog Hunter Kills a Giant 350-Pound Wild Boar in Georgia

Hunter Arun Prakash Ramalingam is obsessed with hunting wild pigs, but this big boar was in a league of its own

Granola bar cut up on an Alaska map of Dall sheep country
Sheep Hunting

Stranded in Sheep Country with Bugs, Bears, and No Food

Weathered in and short on food, two hunters suffer through the hungry side of a fly-in hunt

Kicking a Nightforce ATACS scope across the gravel.
Rifle Scopes

Watch Our Shooting Editor Do Unspeakable Things to His Nightforce ATACR Scope—In the Name of Science

We toss (and kick) a perfectly good precision rifle scope across the range, so that you don't have to

A new report from onx shows the scale of the corner crossing debate.
Public Lands & Waters

More Than 8 Million Acres of Public Land in the West Is “Corner-Locked” and Inaccessible to Hunters

A recently published report by the mapping company onX reveals how much public land is corner-locked in the American West