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Big Game Hunting

Podcast: Our Senior Staff Writer Nearly Died on a Backcountry Hunt. Here’s What We’ve Learned from the Experience

By Alex Robinson

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Big Game Hunting

Photos of Jack O’Connor’s Perfect Winchester Model 70

By Gary Lewis

A photo of a buck in a snowy field.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

A Pennsylvania Hunter Had His “Buck of a Lifetime” Stolen. So Why Are People Blaming Him?

By Dac Collins

A tannery employee holds up mountain lion hides ready for shipping
Big Game Hunting

24 Incredible Photos from the Last Great Tannery in America

By Alex Robinson

An Indiana hunter with a big buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Indiana Hunter Tags Giant 190-Class Buck After Watching Him for 4 Years — and Missing Him Once

By Bob McNally

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Duck Hunting

The 7 Best Late-Season Duck Hunts

By M.D. Johnson

A hunter gored by a buck.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Almost Lost My Eye While Wrestling a Buck

By Bob McNally

An illustration of a train in snow with griz tracks
Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Guided Teddy Roosevelt and Zane Grey, But This Grizzly Hunt Was One I’ll Never Forget

By Jack Tooker

The author with a nice whitetail deer reaped with his bow and decoy.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 5 Rules of Reaping Whitetail Deer

By Derek Horner

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Predator Hunting

Thermal Scopes: Good, Better, and Best

By Scott Einsmann, Andrew McKean

an illustration of a sheep hunter falling down a slope
Sheep Hunting

This Happened to Me: I Almost Froze to Death on a Solo Bighorn Hunt

By Cassidy Caron, as told to Scott Einsmann

A North Dakota hunter with a rare white pheasant.
Pheasant Hunting

North Dakota Hunter Bags a Rare, Snow-White Pheasant on a Frigid Winter Day

By Bob McNally

A hunting party posing with a musk ox.
Big Game Hunting

Hunting Musk Ox and Caribou in Greenland Was Nothing Like I Imagined

By Andrew McKean

two polaroids with brett favre and his mule deer buck
Mule Deer Hunting

I Took Brett Favre on His First Mule Deer Hunt

By John B. Snow

A Wisconsin hunter with a big buck on opening day; a young hunter with he first deer, also tagged on opening day.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Shot a Big Wisconsin Buck Just Seconds Before a Young Hunter Tagged Her First Deer

By Kasey Okrzesik

A bird dog sits in a passenger seat with an arrow in its armpit.
Hunting Dogs

My Bird Dog Caught a Broadhead Arrow to the Chest While Pointing Quail

By Kris Millgate

A hunter in blue overalls sits behind a tree looking at a deer in this illustration.
Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Shot My First Buck on the Run, During a Low-Country Deer Drive

By John Wongrey

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Whitetail Deer Hunting

“I Hope My Baby Grows Up to Be a Deer Hunter.” Pregnant Woman Shoots 190-Class Buck on the Last Day of the Season

By Bob McNally

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Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Happened to Me: I Butchered a Deer in My Brooklyn Apartment and the Cops Came

By Alex Robinson

an old photograph of a hunter in a yellow canoe with a nice buck
Whitetail Deer Hunting

Want to Kill a Great Late-Season Buck? Float a River

By Tom Huggler