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You Still Need Ear Pro While Hunting. Here Are Your 4 Best Options

A grizzly swats at a pheasant hunter in an illustration.

I Tried to Flush a Pheasant. Instead, I Got Mauled by a Grizzly — and 320 Stitches

By John Haviland

An illustration of Jim Carmichel shooting offhand with an eland in the background.

Big Game Hunting

The Hunt That Broke Jim Carmichel

By Jim Carmichel

B&W photo of hunter with deer in trunk

I Spent 5 Years Bowhunting One of the Biggest Nontypicals Ever. Then My Buddy Killed Him

A watercolor of a bighorn ram on a cliff.

I Nearly Died Trying to Recover My Bighorn Ram, But I Couldn’t Leave Him on the Mountain

By Steve Coy with Larry Mueller

A wild horse rears up over a hunter in red check.

The Forgotten Legend of Dick Church, Canada’s Wild-Horse Bounty Hunter

By I.P. Calliston

Crows swoop past an owl decoy

My Best Old-School Tips for Hunting Crows — Including This One Weird, Noisy Trick

By Bert Popowski

A film photo of a goat hunter resting beside his goat and mountain bike.

Big Game Hunting

I Used My Old-School Mountain Bike to Hunt My Archery World-Record Mountain Goat

By Lyle Willmarth, as told to Lee Kline

Tethrd vs Lattitude

Bow Hunting Gear

Latitude Method 3 vs Tethrd Carnivore: Two-Panel Tree Saddle Showdown

An illustration of a grizzly mauling a man with a wooden rifle in Alaska.

I Ignored My Gut Feeling and Went Hunting with Buddies Anyway. Then a Bear Almost Killed Me

By Larry Mueller, Marguerite Reiss

An illustration of deer hunters

Whitetail Deer Hunting

We Invited a 13-Year-Old on His First Deer Hunt. He Ended Up Teaching Us a Few Things

A fisherman holds up a nice steelhead

Salmon and Steelhead Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: Breaking Down Bead Selection for Fall Steelhead

An illustration of a hunter in a pine tree about to shoot a 250-inch buck.

The Hunt for the Jameson Buck, a 250-Inch Legend That Lived in an Old Strip Mine

By Michael Pearce

An illustration of pronghorn antelope running

Antelope Hunting

A Sneeze Turned into the Best Pronghorn Tactic I Ever Tried

By Bert Popowski

A painting of two ruffed grouse.

The Best Grouse Hunting in America Isn’t Where You Think

By Worth Matthewson

An illustration of a bull elk

Antelope Hunting

How My Wife and I Bought 5 Big-Game Tags and Pulled Off the Western Hunt of a Lifetime

By Robert Merchant

A man unleashes a hound in the snow.

Our Best Hound Turned Out to Be the Dog I Never Believed In

A man holds up a nice smallmouth bass caught in the fall.

Quick Strike Podcast: Understanding Lake Turnover Can Rescue Your Fall Fishing

A FWC staffer holds up a Burmese python cauhgt in Florida.

Wildlife Management

Can You Make a Living Hunting Pythons? We Asked Florida’s Invasive Snake Contractors

By Christine Peterson

magazine illustration of man in deep mud

Wilderness Survival

This Duck Hunt Almost Killed Me. That’s Why I’ll Never Hunt Alone Again

By H.A. Shanklin

A hunter smiles alongside his bird dog after a successful duck hunt.

I Trained My Shelter Dog to Hunt Ducks and Grouse in a Month. He’s a Natural

By Kris Millgate

Bear 747 in Brooks falls.

Wildlife Management

9 Photos of Alaska’s Enormous ‘Fat Bear Week’ Champs

By Natalie Krebs

Jack O'Connor on safari, kneeling behind a waterbuck with three guides/trackers beside him.

Big Game Hunting

The .270 Isn’t Powerful Enough? Jack O’Connor Took His on a 30-Day African Safari

By Jack O'Connor

Two hunters drag a deer in a sled in the back yard of their suburban home.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

9 Photos of a Surreal Day in the Life of Suburban Deer Hunters

Photographs by Greg Kahn, story by Natalie Krebs

Testing rain gear in the field

Backcountry Hunting Gear

The Best Hunting Rain Gear, Tested and Reviewed

By Matt Cashell

A photo of Ed Koberstein with his big Alberta typical buck.

The Hunt for the Ed Koberstein Buck, a World-Record Contender That Lost After a Scoring Mixup

Quick Strike Podcast: How to Maximize Fillets, with Reed “The Fish Monger” Brand

A yellow Lab leaps toward a flushing pheasant.

6 Incredible Stories About the Greatest Hunting Dogs We’ve Ever Had

By Andrew McKean

A re-colorized image of Ted Trueblood in a plaid hunting jacket looking at the mountains.

Mule Deer Hunting

Why You Should Always Talk to the Game Warden, According to Ted Trueblood

By Ted Trueblood

A crew of guys stand on a deck holding and surrounded by yellowtail fish.

Photos: Meet the Diehard Crews Who Power SoCal’s Offshore Tuna Scene

Photos by Tom Fowlks, Story by Natalie Krebs

An illustration of a rhino charging theodore roosevelt

Big Game Hunting

I Faced Down a Charging Rhino, Just Like My Great-Grandfather, Teddy Roosevelt

By Jonathan Roosevelt

An illustration of a black bear sow facing off with hunters.

I’ve Lived in Bear Country My Whole Life. Here’s What Happens When Bears Don’t Back Down

A young hunter approaches a bull moose in an illustration.

I Was Nearly Trampled by an Angry Bull Moose

By J. Lee Voorhees

Testing the Leupold Mark 6 HD 1-6 LPVO

The Best LPVO Scopes for Hunting, Tested and Reviewed

By Andrew McKean

A man holds up a nice peacock bass in Florida.

Quick Strike Podcast: Why You Need to Fish for These Hard-Fighting Florida Exotics Before You Die

A black and white illustration of a bear attacking a man

Wilderness Survival

I’ll Always Remember the Day I Went Round for Round With a Grizzly

By Don Vitto, as told to Jim Zumbo

Three mule deer dangle from a helicopter in orange bags.

Wildlife Management

13 Weird and Wonderful Wildlife Photos from a Day in the Life of a Conservation Biologist

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of a bull moose charging a hunter in a red checked shirt

What I’ve Learned from the 50-Plus Moose I’ve Killed, and the Ones That Tried to Kill Me

The author tests the new Sig Sauer stabilized spotting scope

The Best Spotting Scopes of 2025, Budget to Premium Optics Tested

By Andrew McKean

Trotliner pulls in large blue catfish from white river

Catfish Fishing

24 Fascinating Photos of the Master Catfish Trotliners Who Are Keeping This Southern Tradition Alive

Photographs by Rory Dole, story by Natalie Krebs

A kayak fisherman holds up a false albacore.

Saltwater Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: Hammer High-Speed False Albacore Without a (Motor) Boat

A painting of four fishermen leaning over the gunnel of a boat.

Saltwater Fishing

Fishing with the Year-Round, Blue-Collar Party Boaters of New York City

By Peter Kaminsky

An illustration of a man's rifle backfiring into his face.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Was 20 Yards Away from a Big Boar Grizzly When My Rifle Misfired — and Blinded Me

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

An illustration of a quail hunter trying to shoot amid a stampede

The Mexican Desert Holds a Surprising Number of Ducks and Quail. Here’s Why

By William J. Schaldach

A painting of wilson's snipe

Waterfowl Hunting

After a 20-Year Closure, I Finally Got to Hunt Snipe Again. They’re Still Impossible to Hit

By Hart Stilwell

A caribou bull in the fall.

Big Game Hunting

I Wrecked My Horse, Knocked My Scope, and Missed a Giant Caribou Bull. It Was Worth It

By Charles Elliott

Testing straight wall scopes

The 5 Best Scopes for Straight-Wall Cartridges, Tested and Reviewed

By Andrew McKean

Wade Tackett holding two crabs

The Bizarre Disappearance of Wade Tackett Still Haunts Southeast Alaska

A blue illustration of bighorns.

I Drew a Rare Desert Bighorn Tag, and Killed One of the Biggest Rams in the State

Bear Adapt 2 HP

Bow Hunting Gear

Bear Adapt 2 HP Review, the Best Budget Bow We’ve Shot

A blue illustration of a big cougar fighting a dog while a scared boy falls nearby

I Faced Off with a Cornered, Wounded Mountain Lion by Myself. I Was 12

By Fred Meyer Schroder, as told to Robert Easton

Pintails flying in a courtship dance.

Wildlife Management

Pintail Numbers Increase, Mallards Are Stable, and Other Takeaways from This Year’s Duck Survey

By Jonathan Olivier

Evaluating the best hunting rifle scopes

The 10 Best Rifle Scopes for Hunting, Tested and Reviewed

By Andrew McKean

Four anglers hold up a giant striped marlin in Oregon.

Saltwater Fishing

We Just Caught a Giant Striped Marlin Off the Oregon Coast. That Almost Never Happens

A photo illustration of four vintage photos scattered on a table.

Mule Deer Hunting

Most of My Buddies Weren’t Tough Enough to Hunt Velvet Bucks at 13,000 Feet

By Charles Elliott

Fisherman Jimmy Fee holds up a bowfin to the camera.

Quick Strike Podcast: This Is the Secret to Catching More Bowfin

A black bear swats a dog out of a tree

Black Bear Hunting

A Black Bear Killed Hundreds of Sheep Over the Years. My Dogs Finally Caught Up with Him

By Carl T. Johnson

A blue illustration of a man bowhunting a mountain goat billy.

Big Game Hunting

Locals Said My Way of Hunting Mountain Goats Was Madness. I Did It Anyway

By Lowell Martin

An illustration of a girl looking down a shotgun while her dad, Tom Kelly, stands beside her.

How Col. Tom Kelly Taught His Daughter to Shoot a Shotgun, and Doves

By Col. Tom Kelly

A man carries a deer on his back

I Hiked Too Far While Hunting Early-Season Deer and Lost My Mind from Heat Stroke

By George H. Gibson

Grading a road in the wilderness.

Policy & Legislation

You Have Just 3 Weeks to Object to the Roadless Rule Rollback, Which Will Affect 45 Million Wild Acres Across the U.S.

By Andrew McKean

An illustration of an iguana jumping on a hunter in Mexico

I Hunted Giant Iguanas in Old Mexico. They’re Tough to Hunt and Good to Eat

By Michael Cramond

A LDWF game warden rescues a child from a rooftop.

Natural Disaster Survival

16 Powerful Photos of the Sportsmen and Game Wardens Who Helped Rescue Hurricane Katrina Survivors

By Natalie Krebs

A vintage illustration of a fisherman fighting a pike in a small raft.

Pike and Muskie Fishing

I Waited 20 Years to Fish This Wilderness Lake. It Was Better Than I Dreamed