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Good deals from shady sources might be tempting during an ammo shortage, but it pays to stick with well-known websites

Jeff Hoffman talks about running a specialty ammo business during the craziest buying surge in recent history

Are ammunition companies hoarding their supplies? Have they stopped making ammo altogether? In short, no. Here’s what’s really going on

New research finds that a more diverse group of young Americans are ready to hunt, if we’re ready to recruit them

Yamaha has made significant changes to the Grizzly 700 for model year 2014 and beyond. While keeping the dependable 4x4 on the cutting edge of all markets with performance and handling, Yamaha has introduced the Tactical Black Special Edition.

Gear up for your best fishing season ever

Hunting in the wilderness is never easy, but that’s exactly the point. These sacred places are hard to reach—and even harder to leave.

In order to help you find the best boot for your style of hunting, this year’s test involved 19 pairs across a wide spectrum of designs and intended uses. Here’s what we found.

Even while America's whitetail population is at its highest, there are critical issues facing the country's deer and deer hunters. Disease, winter kill, predation, and poor land management all have the potential to flip your next deer season on its head. But before we can tackle the problems at hand, we need to figure out which issues are most important to us, America's deer hunters. That's why we've put together our first national deer survey.

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Shooting tips

Learn to shoot like a pro

Given these advantages, let’s explore what a modern-day terrestrial fly box might hold. Some of these ­patterns are hot off the vise, others are more venerable. All will consistently put a sharp bend in your rod.

The "mils" in a mil-dot scope refer to milliradians, which is a measurement of angle. If you picture a mil as an ice cream cone, with the tip originating at the shooter's eye and an open end that gets ever wider the farther out it goes, you get the idea. So if the mouth of our imaginary cone is 1 mil in diameter, making it 3.6 inches across at 100 yards, it would grow to 36 inches at 1,000 yards.

Beat the summer slump

We bet good money you'll learn at least one new tip from this collection

What defines a turkey gun? Well, by one school of thought, any shotgun that will kill a turkey is a turkey gun. That might even include a .410 revolver under some conditions. But there are some characteristics that make for a more effective turkey-hunting shotgun.

I used to like a shotgun with a little thump to it. Then I started shooting skeet and realized that recoil offers no positive gains. Recoil is only a negative. It's not a comfort issue, but a performance issue.