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A dead buck that was infected with EHD.

When EHD Hits Deer Paradise a Hunter Is Left to Make Sense of the Devastation

By Andrew McKean

A bowhunter with an 8-point buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Bowhunter Tags His Target Buck After Watching It for 6 Years on Trail Cameras

A collection of hated worms

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

Two search-and-rescue professionals hike along a hillside in Oregon.

Wilderness Survival

Oregon National Guard Deployed as Search for Missing Deer Hunter Enters Third Day

A deer hunter with a big buck from Indiana.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

Indiana Hunter Tags a Dandy 12-Pointer, Then Hauls the Buck Out in a Canoe

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

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

hunter aims at bear

Grizzly Bear Hunting

I Thought Alaska Had Beaten Me. Then, Finally, I Saw the Biggest Brown Bear of My Life

By Kenneth C. Kellar

Speed testing arrows

Bow Hunting Gear

Everything Bowhunters Need to Know About Arrow Speed

By Scott Einsmann

A sow grizzly stands on her hind legs.

Another Hunter Was Just Mauled by a Grizzly, This Time in Alberta

By Natalie Krebs

Ryan Callaghan has been named the new president and CEO of BHA.

Public Lands & Waters

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

By Natalie Krebs, Alex Robinson

A photo of a big brown trout being released.

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

spooky trail cam photos

Whitetail Deer Hunting

19 Eerie Trail Camera Photos You Can’t Unsee

By Josh Honeycutt

Two guys drag a deer out of the brush.

Hunter Recruitment

21 Ways to Recruit New People into Hunting and Fishing

A black and white photo of a crossbow set as a trip wire.

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

A motion spinning decoy on the water.

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

By Alex Robinson

An illustration of a grouse hunter sitting on a porch.

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

A whitetail deer makes a scrape on the edge of a field.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

By Derek Horner

A painting of two bears attacking a guy.

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

Fisherman Joe Cermele holds up a cow striped bass.

Striped Bass Fishing

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

Joey Pendry died three weeks after being attacked by a grizzly.

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

By Kris Millgate

A composite image of Ian Stasko and Andrew Porter, elk huntersw ho died in Colorado last month

Wilderness Survival

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

A buck scent checks a doe.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

The 9 Best Deer Stand Locations for Hunting the Rut

By Michael Hanback

Skinning a deer in a skinning shed.

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

benelli advanced impact

Video: We Tested Benelli’s Advanced Impact Barrel Claims

By Alex Robinson

A Missouri bowhunter with a buck.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

Colorado officials stand over a wolf crate in the dark.

Wildlife Management

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

A hunter in a blaze orange Outdoor Life rooster hoodie holds up a pheasant for a Lab.

Outdoor Life Merch Drop: Rooster Hoodies Are Here

By Natalie Krebs

ANWR coastal plain

Climate & Environment

Trump Administration Opens the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to Drilling

By Natalie Krebs

A pair of mallards prepare to land.

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

A gambel's quail sits ona. log in the evening sunshine.

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

By Jack O'Connor

An older yellow Lab returning with a wild rooster.

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

By Christine Peterson

The new state-record sow black bear in Maine.

Black Bear Hunting

Maine Guide Snares a New State-Record Black Bear

Two fishermen filming themselves on the river.

Salmon and Steelhead Fishing

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

An illustration of a man kneeling in the snow over a fire.

Wilderness Survival

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

Federal hatchery workers load fish into a truck.

Public Lands & Waters

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

By Christine Peterson

An illustration of Alaskan settlers seeing caribou in the early 1900s.

Big Game Hunting

The Craziest Thing This Legendary Frontiersman Ever Saw in Alaska

By Frank Glaser, as told to Jim Rearden

Freel with black bear

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

A bowhunter with a rare piebald buck taken in Ohio.

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

A few portraits of a young hunter who was killed by lightning

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

A huge muskie caught on the fly

Pike and Muskie Fishing

Quick Strike Podcast: Tips for Targeting Muskies on the Fly

Polish anglers kneel behind a massive Wels catfish.

Catfish Fishing

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

A screenshot of iron bar holdings and corner parcels

Public Lands & Waters

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Corner-Crossing Case

By Christine Peterson

sliced venison on cutting board

Wild Game Recipes

Old-School Cooking Tricks to Make Your Venison Taste Better

Columbia Blacktails Are the Toughest Deer to Hunt

By Scott Haugen

A Nebraska fisherman holds up a giant blue catfish.

Catfish Fishing

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

A fish hatchery in Arkansas.

Arkansas Cuts Trout Harvest on Famed Tailwaters as Key Hatcheries Crash

By Kris Millgate

A hunter with a super rare cactus bull elk tagged in Idaho.

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

A hunter and a bird dog walking in Nebraska.

Upland Bird Hunting

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

Deer rubs side by side in the dark and with UV lights.

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

Hunter with baby in carrier on back also carries part of an elk through rocky, woody terrain.

Antelope Hunting

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

By Christine Peterson

An illustration of a buck running through the woods and a hunter aiming at it.

Whitetail Deer Hunting

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

A close-up picture of a spotted gar that broke an Oklahoma record.

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

The world-record Brooks Bull being scored on the floor.

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

By Natalie Krebs

A fishing guide holds up a state-record bass in Tennessee.

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

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

barren ground caribou

Big Game Hunting

Barren Ground Caribou Hunts Are Disappearing — or Getting Outrageously Expensive