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I Promised to Take My Boys Rabbit Hunting Every Day of Christmas Break

By Erwin A. Bauer

Christmas cards for your best hunting buddies.

4 Christmas Cards Pat McManus Always Wanted to Send His Hunting Buddies, But Couldn’t

By Patrick F. McManus

A dog wearing goggles fetches up a rooster.

After My Bird Dog Was Nearly Blinded, This Ridiculous Piece of Gear Is the One Thing I’ll Never Hunt Without

By Natalie Krebs

A photo of a blue-gloved hand holding a winter trout caught from a river.

Quick Strike Podcast: Shake the Winter Freestone Fishing Blues

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Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Dreamt a Brown Bear Was in My Tent. Then One Actually Walked into Camp

By John B. Snow

Waterfowl Hunting

I Almost Completed the North American Waterfowl Slam by Luck. Here’s Why I Think Obsessing Over the 41 Is a Bit Ridiculous

By Scott Haugen

A fishing guide holds up a giant bass on Lake Okechobee

Largemouth Bass

Quick Strike Podcast: How to Catch Giant Bass on Lake Okeechobee This Winter

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

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

an illustration of a sheep hunter falling down a slope

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

By Cassidy Caron, as told to Scott Einsmann

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

Blue catfish caught on shad chunk

Catfish Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: How to Catch Trophy Blue Catfish In Winter

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

illustration of hunter answering door

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

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Best Portable Tire Inflators, Tested and Reviewed

By Drew Conover

Three police cars by a white pickup in Antelope Valley.

I Found a Human Skull While Rabbit Hunting Near Los Angeles

By Chris Grillot

A 6.5 Creedmoor cartridge doesn't always produce the best blood trails on deer.

Podcast: Are You Getting Bad Blood Trails with the 6.5 Creedmoor? This Is Why

By Natalie Krebs

doe lies on ground next to truck with broken windshield

Whitetail Deer Hunting

After I Shot a Deer, It Leapt on My Truck and Smashed My Windshield

By Cheyne Matzenbacher

Today's Best Knife Deals 12/2

Today’s Best Deals on EDC, Bushcraft, and Hunting Knives

By Scott Einsmann

A surf perch in SoCal.

Saltwater Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: Catch a Pile of Perch in the Surf

A Pennsylvania flintlock rifle with a compartment in the stock.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

19 Timeless Photos from Pennsylvania’s Flintlock Season, the Last of Its Kind in the Country

Photographs by Henry Hung, Story by Derek Horner

An old color photograph of two deer hunters in Mississippi.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Spent Thanksgiving with Southern Hunters Who Ran Deer Hounds. Here’s What I Learned

By Robert E. Price

A kid's first deer hunt in a Louisiana swamp in the 1960s.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

My Son’s First Trip to Deer Camp Was a Rite of Passage — for Both of Us

By Grits Gresham

An illustration of a man with a hawken rifle near a crowd.

My Father’s Hawken Rifle Was Legendary for Taking Our Thanksgiving Turkeys

By Orie C. Ramsay

A hand on a rifle

Jim Carmichel on Why We Hunters and Shooters Miss

By Jim Carmichel

An illustration of a grizzly bear tumbling down a mountain as hunters get out of the way.

Grizzly Bear Hunting

A Grizzly Stole My Son’s First Deer. So We Tracked the Bear Down

By William J. McRae

A collection of small flies held up in front of a wintery trout stream.

Quick Strike Podcast: If You Can Tie These 3 Flies, You Can Tie Anything

American Woodcock. (Photo by: Picturenow/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Upland Bird Hunting

I’ve Hunted Woodcock My Whole Life. I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This

By Henry S. Beverage

An illustration of two figures crossing an icy channel to reach a cabin

Wilderness Survival

Five Men Met Up for a Deer Hunt. Only Three of Us Survived

illustration of a deer hunter drawing

Mule Deer Hunting

How a New College Grad Found Direction from His Grandpa’s Deer Rifle

By Andrew McKean

An illustration of a giant double-beamed buck running away from horses in the snow.

I Tracked This Double-Beamed Buck for 8 Miles Across Ohio

By Paul Helser, as told to Ben East

An elk hunter with his bull elk and the rancher who stole it.

Public Lands & Waters

Watch: A Landowner Stole My Buddy’s Public-Land Elk to Deter Us from ‘Hunting This Outfit’

By Andrew McKean

deer walks uphill in brushy field

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Quit Treestands a Decade Ago. It Turns Out Hunting Whitetails from the Ground Is More Fun

By Andrew McKean

A giant Missouri buck.

He Almost Skipped the Hunt for His Son’s Homecoming, Then Shot a 200-Class Droptine

A public health sign advising fishermen not to consume the fish in a contaminated pond.

Climate & Environment

The EPA Is Gutting the Clean Water Act, Which Has Protected Fish and Game for 53 Years

By Christine Peterson

Jim Carmichel with an elk

3 Rifles to Hunt the World, According to Jim Carmichel

By Jim Carmichel

Earl T. McMaster with his big Montana hwitetail.

I Shot a Limit of Mallards, then Tagged the No. 4 All-Time Record Buck

By Earl T. McMaster

Joe Cermele with a tautog caught on an ultralight jig.

Saltwater Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: How to Catch Tautog Like the Cool Kids

illustration of gunsmith at work

How the Kentucky Rifle Turned Frontier Deer Hunters into America’s First Snipers

By Fred R. Zepp

Mule Deer Hunting

These Basic Tools and Tactics Can Make Any Deer Hunter a Better Shooter

By Alex Robinson

A black and white and red illustration of a hunter looking behind him to see a big buck.

Mule Deer Hunting

Old-School Advice for Still-Hunting Whitetail Deer

A Maine hunter in blaze orange and a green check coat with a nice buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘I Laughed, I Cried.’ After 36 Years, North Woods Hunter Finally Tags His First Deer

By Natalie Krebs

Illustration of a hunter aiming a rifle at a deer in the snow.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

This Legendary North Woods Deer Tracker Is the Last of His Kind

By Gerry Bethge

A buck approaches cover

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The Whitetail Tactic Most Hunters Abandoned — and Why It Still Works

A moose hunter falls backward as a black bear charges

My Guide Left Me Alone, and I Was Mauled by a Black Bear

By William D. Brown

An illustration of a bear biting the hand of a West Virginia houndsman.

Black Bear Hunting

A Black Bear Tried to Kill My Dogs. Then It Turned on Me

A magazine spread featuring an illustration of a duck and a US naval destroyer.

I Hunted Ducks from a U.S. Naval Destroyer During the Korean War

By D.J. Carrison

Trophy burbot on winter fishing laid out on ice

Quick Strike Podcast: Pro Tips for Catching Burbot Through the Ice

A black man in hunters camo holds a rifle.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I’m an Immigrant, a Veteran, and Finally… a Hunter

By Ron Taylor, as told to Natalie Krebs

An illustration of a man, Frank Glaser, flying off a sled led by sled dogs.

The Legend of Frank Glaser, the Toughest Woodsman Alaska Has Ever Seen

Ryan Callaghan behind a spotting scope

Policy & Legislation

Outdoor Life Podcast: Is Ryan Callaghan the Optimist Our Public Lands Need?

By Natalie Krebs

An illustration of a hunter in a blue jacket leaning out a barn window to shoot a deer.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Drove 180 Miles to Hunt Deer. The Biggest Buck of My Life Lived Behind My Barn

By Harold Brigham

a rutting bull moose stands in a river

I Spent 12 Days Trapped with a Moose Guide Who Wouldn’t Give Up

By Andrew McKean

A mule deer buck in the desert with a sunrise.

Mule Deer Hunting

I Passed on the Biggest Mule Deer of My Life

By Mark Sullivan

An illustration of Frank Glaser falling down dogs.

The Day My Sled Dogs Took On a Grizzly — and Won

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

Hand-knapped stone points on handmade arrow shafts.

Survival Skills

Why I Keep Choosing Bushcraft Over Modern Convenience

A collection of hated worms

Quick Strike Podcast: Trout Flies We Love to Hate (But Keep Using)

An illustration of an old-school hunter rattling

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Was Rattling Really Born in Texas? The Untold Story Behind the Favorite Tactic

By Hart Stillwell

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The Best Wood-Stocked Deer Rifles

By Alex Robinson

An illustration of a man and a buck falling down a snowy hillside.

Mule Deer Hunting

I Work Hard for All My Deer. This Buck Humbled Me

By Andy Russell

A Soviet-style illustration of a bear.

Black Bear Hunting

The Ex-Communist Bear Baiter of Saskatchewan

By Andrew McKean

bighorn sheep on highway

Wildlife Management

The Unexpected Bright Side of Roadkill (and What It Means for Big Game)

By Andrew McKean