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Public Lands & Waters

Ryan ‘Cal’ Callaghan Named the New CEO of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

By Natalie Krebs, Alex Robinson

Wildlife Management

It’s Time to Rethink Catch-and-Release Trout Fishing — or Get Much Better at It

By Christine Peterson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Kentucky Hunter Tagged This Massive Buck After Receiving a Cell Cam Photo and Driving Through the Night

Whitetail Deer Hunting

19 Eerie Trail Camera Photos You Can’t Unsee

By Josh Honeycutt

Hunter Recruitment

21 Ways to Recruit New People into Hunting and Fishing

Wildlife Management

Game Warden Tales: I Hunted Down a Trip-Wire Crossbow Poacher

Whitetail Deer Hunting

27 Bad Excuses Why You Didn’t Kill a Buck Last Year

By Will Brantley, Tony Hansen

The 3 Motion Decoys All Duck Hunters Need on a Calm Day

By Alex Robinson

My Dog and I Got Lost in the Grouse Woods. We Found Something I Still Can’t Explain

By Joel M. Vance

Whitetail Deer Hunting

‘His Antlers Grew 40 Inches.’ Kansas Hunter Arrows Massive Nontypical Buck

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Where to Kill a Buck This Weekend: Target These Key Food Sources and Scrapes

By Derek Horner

They Tell You to Play Dead When a Brown Bear Attacks. I Found Out If It Really Works

By Rollin Braden, as told to Marguerite Reiss

Striped Bass Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: Use This Key Baitfish to Catch Your Bass of a Lifetime

Elk Hunter Dies 3 Weeks After He Was Attacked by a Grizzly

By Kris Millgate

Wilderness Survival

‘Tragically Unlucky.’ The Real Story of What Happened to the Elk Hunters Who Disappeared in Colorado’s Wilderness

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 9 Best Deer Stand Locations for Hunting the Rut

By Michael Hanback

Don’t Toss Out Your Deer Hides. Here’s What to Do With Them Instead

The .280 Remington Should Have Been a Success. Here’s Why It Wasn’t

By Jim Carmichel

Video: We Tested Benelli’s Advanced Impact Barrel Claims

By Alex Robinson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

College Kid Plays Hooky and Arrows a Huge Missouri Buck with 3 Main Beams

Wildlife Management

US Fish and Wildlife Director Calls Out Colorado Wolf Program. Could the Next Release Be Stopped?

Outdoor Life Merch Drop: Rooster Hoodies Are Here

By Natalie Krebs

Climate & Environment

Trump Administration Opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Drilling

By Natalie Krebs

‘AI Told Me Duck Season Was Open,’ and Other Reasons Officials Are Warning Hunters Not to Rely on AI

The Time Jack O’Connor Trespassed, Killed a Quail in a Lady’s Yard, and Somehow Still Got Hunting Permission

By Jack O'Connor

I Learned One of Life’s Most Important Lessons from My First Bird Dog

By Christine Peterson

Black Bear Hunting

Maine Guide Snares a New State-Record Black Bear

Salmon and Steelhead Fishing

These Salmon Fishermen Just Demonstrated the Absolute Dumbest Way to Get a Ticket

Wilderness Survival

This One Stupid Decision Nearly Cost Me My Life on a Maine Deer Hunt

Public Lands & Waters

2,000 Federal Public-Land Employees Could Lose Jobs Amid Shutdown

By Christine Peterson

Big Game Hunting

The Craziest Thing This Legendary Frontiersman Ever Saw in Alaska

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

Stop Shooting Bears Here; Hunter Education Has Failed Us on Bear Anatomy

‘Just Like Clockwork.’ Ohio Bowhunter Tags a Rare Piebald Buck He’d Been Seeing On Trail Cams for Years

Lightning Claims the Life of Another Hunter, This Time in Louisiana

Pike and Muskie Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: Tips for Targeting Muskies on the Fly

Catfish Fishing

Watch: Polish Anglers Say This Enormous Catfish Is a New World Record

Public Lands & Waters

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Corner-Crossing Case

By Christine Peterson

Wild Game Recipes

Old-School Cooking Tricks to Make Your Venison Taste Better

Columbia Blacktails Are the Toughest Deer to Hunt

By Scott Haugen

Catfish Fishing

‘We Were Hunting for That Fish.’ Nebraska Guide Breaks 21-Year-Old Catfish Record

Arkansas Cuts Trout Harvest on Famed Tailwaters as Key Hatcheries Crash

By Kris Millgate

Hunter’s “Once in a Lifetime” Elk Has a Wild-Looking Cactus Rack

Upland Bird Hunting

A New Program Added 100,000 Acres (and Counting) of Walk-In Access in Nebraska and South Dakota

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Rubs and Scrapes Glow Like ‘Highway Reflectors’ to Deer, New Study Shows

By Natalie Krebs

Walleye Fishing

Video: A Fishing Legend Explains How to Catch More Walleyes Without Forward-Facing Sonar

By Alex Robinson

Antelope Hunting

I Used to Be an Anti-Hunter. Now I Take My Daughter Hunting with Me

By Christine Peterson

Whitetail Deer Hunting

I Went Looking for a Lost Hunter, and Found the Big Buck I’d Been Tracking All Season

This Fisherman Might’ve Just Broken a World Record. He Definitely Broke His Rod

Brooks Bull Officially Declared New Archery World-Record Elk. It Narrowly Missed the All-Time Record Due to a Scoring Technicality

By Natalie Krebs

Tennessee Fishing Guide Catches Record Bass that Officials Say Shouldn’t Be There

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

By John Haviland

Big Game Hunting

Barren Ground Caribou Hunts Are Disappearing — or Getting Outrageously Expensive

Big Game Hunting

The Hunt That Broke Jim Carmichel

By Jim Carmichel

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

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

By Steve Coy with Larry Mueller

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

By I.P. Calliston

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

By Bert Popowski

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

This Buck Outsmarted Me for 3 Seasons. One Change Finally Gave Me the Chance I Needed

Black Bear Hunting

Anti-Hunters Drew at Least 23 Percent of Florida’s Black Bear Tags, According to One Local Activist

After 20 Years of Applying, 28 Days of Hunting, and 130 Miles of Hiking, I Arrowed My Bull at 8 Yards

By Kris Millgate

Policy & Legislation

Congress Throws 166 Million Acres of BLM into Limbo by Upending Decades of Local Compromise

By Christine Peterson

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

By Larry Mueller, Marguerite Reiss

The 9 Biggest Myths in Duck Hunting

By Alex Robinson, Roy Holdford