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Kansas wildlife commissioners voted in June to shorten the winter trout season by a full six weeks, citing the growing cost of the state's stocking program

"And, you know what? If the roles were reversed, and I was the one in the pond needing his help, he would have been the first one to my aid"

Hot tips from the captain on how to increase your odds of boxing out

"It was a big sonar mark in deep water that I figured was a smallmouth bass"

I had traveled to Zimbabwe to hunt sable. I ended up helping my PH avoid a violent conflict with the locals

But I was onto something with those rangefinding optics

When two hunters scouting for moose accidentally walked right into a moose kill, they only had seconds to stop the massive bear that charged straight for them

SCHEELS Camo V2 is the most versatile way to blend in

The men behind a years-long poaching outfit have been sentenced for targeting trophy whitetails in Southern Illinois. All five avoided jail time

These thermal optics turn an ordinary scope into a thermal sight

Once a bear has broken into a place and found food, there's no going back

Two wolves died in Colorado this spring: One from an apparent mountain lion attack, and the other from injuries sustained from traps designed to protect livestock from coyotes

One of the ­oldest forms of hunting, falconry has evolved into a modern sport with a thousand variations. For this bird hunter, running his goshawk over setters is the dream

An ode to one of the greatest big-game fish on the planet

I had been attacked by a charging moose and suffered shattered ribs. Now, in a driving rainstorm in the black Alaska night, three brown bears moved in for the kill

Trijicon’s double-tough optics are made to perform in any situation.

There's a lot of heated debate around free-ranging horses in the West. But it's often workaday Westerners — and not the government — who feel the brunt of this controversy

We outline our favorite states for traveling, DIY whitetail hunters and describe how to find quality opportunities when you get there

Even with more than 600 rounds of testing, this pistol proved to be accurate, fast, and wonderfully smooth

The lake trout was caught in 2023 near Sheboygan Reef — the same general area where that very fish was stocked in 1985