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Christensen Arms Evoke rifle
Hunting Rifles

Christensen Arms Evoke: An Excellent (And Affordable) All-Purpose Hunting Rifle

The new Evoke is the best new hunting rifle under $1,000

This Pennsylvania Father Is Raising Three Girls Who Love Hunting as Much as He Does
Big Game Hunting

This Pennsylvania Father Is Raising Three Girls Who Love Hunting as Much as He Does

“They kind of hog the shots at the beginning of the season, but once I get their tags filled, I can start hunting for myself”

A high school angler with a rainbow trout; a biodegradable lure fresh out of a mold.
Freshwater

This Angler Won His Science Fair for Biodegradable Fishing Lures. Now He’s Selling Them

"We did get out during trout season here in Pennsylvania ... and the trout were hammering them"

Hunters in red buffalo check
Grizzly Bear Hunting

After 25 Years of Big Game Hunting, All I Wanted Was to Tag an Elk

I'd been fortunate enough to hunt all over North America, but I'd never had any luck with elk. And between the charging grizzlies and falling goats, this backcountry trip started to go the same way

Tactacam Reveal Ultra trail camera
Deer Hunting Gear

First Look at the New Tactacam Reveal Ultra

We tested Tactacam's newest trail camera

Three wolf pups run along a dirt road.
Wildlife Management

Colorado Confirms Multiple Wolf Pup Sightings

One rancher says the Copper Creek Pack, which has a history of hunting and killing livestock, is raising pups just a quarter mile from his cattle

REI Half dome set up by an alpine lake
Camping Gear

REI Half Dome 2 Plus: One Tent to Rule Them All

I took the latest version of REI's flagship tent into the field to see if it lives up to its reputation

An Idaho bowfisherman holds up a giant grass carp.
Freshwater

This Idaho Record Carp Was So Big It Broke the Bowfisherman’s Arrow

"The fish went crazy and shattered my arrow. And I couldn't use my bowfishing reel because the carp was too strong"

The best ice packs for coolers sitting in an ice chest.
Camping Gear

The Best Ice Packs for Coolers of 2025

Chill your provisions for the long haul with one of these reusable packs

BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, MINNESOTA- SEPTEMBER: Outdoor enthusiasts travel by canoe through several of the hundreds of fresh water lakes that make up the Boundary Waters in September of 2019 in the northern woods of Minnesota. Motor boats are banned in this protected area of the Superior National Forest wilderness. Environmentalists are worried that recent permits given to mines on the edge of the Boundary Waters might threaten the pristine waters of the region. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
Policy & Legislation

Trump Administration Moves to Kill Boundary Waters Protections, Make Way for Proposed Mine

The move to cancel a 20-year mineral withdrawal near the Boundary Waters was announced in an X post around the same time Congress decided against gutting the protections

hunter on top of boulder, holding turkey and gun
Turkey Hunting

Before We Learned to Call Turkeys in Close, We Hunted with Rifles

The ethics of turkey hunting looked a lot different in 1948

Your public lands sign
Public Lands & Waters

Senate Proposes Selling Up to 3 Million Acres of Public Land

Senator Mike Lee of Utah is pushing to sell up to .75 percent of BLM and USFS lands in up to 12 Western states — all except Montana

Senator Mike Lee on senate land sale
Policy & Legislation

The Senate Is Considering Selling Public Land. It Could Be About 2 Million Acres

Budget negotiators are waiting on public-land inventory from Utah Senator Mike Lee, and could introduced a proposal as soon as tonight

A Minnesota angler with a bigmouth buffalo.
Freshwater

Minneapolis Fisherman Lands State-Record Bigmouth Buffalo from a Bridge in the ‘Burbs

"There's just a lot of variables that come into play when you have that heavy current, a bridge, and a big fish hooked on a small jig"

Trout fishermen bump into canoes.
Trout Fishing

My Buddies and I Caught 500 Wild Trout in 3 Days on an Old-Fashioned Canoe Trip

We were in there three days, saw seven moose, and caught hundreds of fish. It was the kind of fishing our grandfathers had known in the 19th century — and we pray that our own grandsons may know something of it in the 21st

Boundary Waters lake
Policy & Legislation

The House Kills Its Plan to Open Mining Near the Boundary Waters

Senate Republicans asked the House to strike a provision from its budget bill that would green-light mineral leasing in the Superior National Forest

A large bull moose
Moose Hunting

I Ditched a Bogus Outfitter for a Real Wilderness Moose Hunt

A greenhorn's botched trip leads to a series of life-changing hunts in the Canadian backcountry

A large herd of aoudad move across the Texas landscape.
Sheep Hunting

Texas Adds Aoudad to the List of Animals You Can Hunt from Helicopters

As aoudad numbers continue to grow and compete with native bighorn and mule deer populations, Texas looks to a creative management tool

A nighttime trail cam photo of an adult mountain lion with kittens.
Wildlife Management

Mountain Lion Kittens Were Finally Photographed in Oklahoma. Skeptics Claim the Cats Have Been Breeding There All Along

State wildlife managers have long said that Oklahoma does not have an established, breeding population of mountain lions. Recent trail camera photos are the "first piece of evidence" that cougars may be breeding there

An illustration of a man in the snow
Survival Skills

If This Search and Rescue Team Can’t Find You, No One Can

This story of more than 100 rescues began when Harold Patrick froze to death on a wilderness moose hunt