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Extraterrestrials: 12 Best Terrestrial Flies for Trout Fishing
Trout Fishing

Extraterrestrials: 12 Best Terrestrial Flies for Trout Fishing

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.

Mil-Dot Reticles: Use Mils to Estimate Range
Optics

Mil-Dot Reticles: Use Mils to Estimate Range

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
Largemouth Bass

Beat the Summer Slump

Beat the summer slump

50 Great Hunting Tips
Hunting

50 Great Hunting Tips

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

Gobbler Guns and Skills: Fine-Tune Your Turkey Gear this Spring
Turkey Hunting

Gobbler Guns and Skills: Fine-Tune Your Turkey Gear this Spring

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.

Reduce Felt Recoil with These 4 Shotgun Tips
Shotguns

Reduce Felt Recoil with These 4 Shotgun Tips

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.

wild game cuts
Wild Game Recipes

The Undercuts: How to Cook the Most Underrated Cuts of Venison

Six creative recipes show hunters how to prepare the most ignored yet delicious pieces of wild venison

Taking new shooters, like your wife and mother-in-law, to the range can be surprisingly useful.
Guns

I Took My Mother-in-Law to a Gun Range for Mother’s Day, and Lived to Write This Story

As experienced shooters, it’s up to us to provide more opportunities for those who want to learn to shoot…even if they’re our in-laws

A hunter kneeling beside the new world-record bull elk.
Elk Hunting

The Hunt for the New World-Record Archery Elk

Modest Alberta farmer and accomplished bowhunter Shawn O'Shea takes the largest archery-killed elk to date

Alberta's Shawn O'Shea is the current archery elk non-typical world record holder.
Elk Hunting

The New World Record Non-Typical Archery Elk

Shawn O’Shea’s 449-inch bull was officially declared the new world record non-typical

A Louisiana bluefin tuna weighing in at 683 pounds.
Tuna Fishing

Marlin Angler Catches 683-Pound Bluefin Tuna Off Louisiana Coast

Marlin were the target species of these tournament anglers, but this giant tuna got all the attention

Traditional bowhunting is as ethical as the hunter.
Bow Hunting

So You Think Traditional Bowhunting Is Unethical?

Legal hunting equipment isn't unethical—it's the hunter you have to consider

NRA vs state of new york.
Guns

Federal Judge Denies NRA Bankruptcy, Now the Organization Must Face Corruption Allegations and Possible Dissolution

The National Rifle Association will face corruption charges from the New York Attorney General

The Hoenig Round Action rifle is an obscure but impressive sporting rifle.
Hunting Rifles

The Best Sporting Rifles John Moses Browning Never Built

Browning is rightfully credited with the invention of many iconic firearms, but there were others who built equally significant rifles

The 2021 Waterfowl Breeding Survey was canceled again due to Covid-19 concerns.
Waterfowl Hunting

The Annual North American Waterfowl Breeding Survey Is Canceled—Again. Here’s What It Means for Hunters

Spring breeding data gathering has been scrubbed for the second year in a row

Pacific footballfish washes ashore on California beach.
Saltwater Fishing

Bizarre Footballfish Fish Washes Ashore on California Beach

This deep-water ocean fish is common enough worldwide, but rare to find on the shore

10 of the Nastiest Freshwater Fish on the Planet
Fishing

10 of the Nastiest Freshwater Fish on the Planet

Their teeth can tear flesh. Their strength can destroy tackle. Their dispositions can break an angler’s spirit. These are the meanest fish that swim.

How to Identify and Cook Pheasant Back Mushrooms
Pheasant Hunting

How to Identify and Cook Pheasant Back Mushrooms

Morels are more popular, but the pheasant back mushroom is just as common, easy to identify, and makes fine tablefare

Idaho wolf hunting will be expanded thanks to a controversial new law.
Wolf Hunting

New Law Expands Idaho Wolf Take to 90 Percent of Population, Loosens Regs

The new hunting and trapping regulations are designed to reduce wolf predation on livestock, but were opposed by the Idaho Game and Fish Commission

Hunting a wilderness area near LA
Deer Hunting

Deer Hunting the California Backcountry—Just an Hour From Los Angeles

Hunting a backcountry buck just an hour outside LA isn’t impossible, even when success rates hover around 11 percent