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Celebrating 125 years of stories so great, they never get old NEVER MIND HUNTING. NEVER MIND fishing. The adventure story is one of the great cultural staples of mankind. Homer's [...]

GUNSITE ACADEMY IS THE BEST-KNOWN OF A GROWING NUMBER OF SHOOTING SCHOOLS AROUND THE COUNTRY, WHERE ANYONE CAN IMPROVE THEIR SKILLS WITH A RIFLE. TO PROVE IT, WE SENT HEAVEY [...]

WHAT KEEPS 105-YEAR-OLD CLYDE ROBERTS, THE OLDEST HUNTER IN AMERICA, RETURNING TO THE WOODS YEAR AFTER YEAR? HARD WORK, CLEAN LIVING AND ONE SIMPLE GOAL At 105, Clyde Roberts no [...]

In an age of DIGITAL DEER check-ins and facebook bragboards, the old TRADITION of gathering--In PERSON--to ADMIRE the opening-day bounty lives on in Indiana River, Michigan. Here, everyone knows where [...]

EVERY APRIL, AFTER DARK, HUNTERS AND HOUNDS DESCEND ON THE WOODS AND HOLLOWS OF DECATUR COUNTY, TENNESSEE, FOR THE WORLD'S LARGEST RACCOON HUNT. THEY DON'T COME FOR THE CASH OR [...]

Getting to hunt and fish for a living may be a dream job, but as these five guides can attest, that doesn't make it easy. Between the bear attacks, brutal [...]

Thank God they flick their tails. I'd been hearing one bark for five minutes, but it's only that visual cue that reveals the rodent, flattened and frozen against a hickory [...]

No. 91 Big bass like tight spots choked with weeds, downed timber, or overhanging branches--spots you often can't reach with an overhand cast. You need to learn to presentyour bait [...]

Amid the chaos of one of the country's craziest spawning runs, the author discovers the Zen-like secret to salmon fishing Hint: It doesn't involve actually catching fish If the chain-smoking [...]

JEFF BUDZ IS THE GREATEST TURKEY HUNTER ALIVE. HE HAS THE MUST GRAND SLAMS EVER RECORDED. NO ONE IN THE SPORT IS MORE DRIVEN OR ACCOMPLISHED. SO WE GAVE HIM [...]

I'M SITTING IN A DARKHOUSE, a fish hut with the door shut and the lone window almost completely blocked by a sheet of insulation. There's just enough light in here [...]

Chasing big game is more than a hunt--it is pure adventure. Here we've collected the skills, tools, and attitude you'll need to haul meat off the mountain--whether you're after elk, [...]

Attacked by a bear, chomped by a shark, lost in the woods for a week-in the last year, these three outdoorsmen suffered some of the worst nightmares imaginable in the [...]

When the steelhead are running, nothing else matters to Mikey Dvorak. Not money, not manners, not even where he's going to sleep at night. What matters is finding a biting [...]

GO ON A WEEKLONG PADDLE TRIP DEEP INTO QUETICO, A HUGE AND STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL SMALLMOUTH AND WALLEYE WILDERNESS, AND YOUR EARTHLY PROBLEMS SOON COME INTO PERSPECTIVE. ESPECIALLY ON THE PORTAGES [...]

THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST--COLLEAGUES AND LONGTIME PALS--SET OUT ON A TROUT FISHING ADVENTURE IN THE WYOMING WILDERNESS. BUT AN EPISODE OF TRUE AND HONEST FEAR CHANGED EVERYTHING Knee-deep in a [...]

As THE SINGLE-ENGINE Caravan touches down on the gravel runway at Arctic Village, women driving red Arctic Cat quads suddenly appear, each at the head of her own dust cloud, [...]

The whitetail deer changed everything. A hundred years ago there wasn't one to be found in Illinois, Indiana, or Ohio. Fifty years ago, seeing a whitetail could get your name [...]

STALKING ALONG A hillside of broken conifers behind my guide, Michel Quevion, on the first day of the hunt, I'm playing a high-stakes version of Dancing With the Stars. Maintaining [...]

EVERYTHING IN LIFE depends on how you look at it. Take the events of the past 10 months. My life has been pureed by the pandemic. The stupendous income I [...]

AS ROGER TOLBERT AND I ARE GETTING dressed one morning in his trailer to head out for the hunt, he carefully loads four knives into his rubber boots: a short, [...]

ON AN OVERCAST NOVEMBER afternoon, having just finished hacking my way along my designated line in a five-man deer drive on the southern shore of Lake Superior, I meet up [...]

UNTIL WE CAN SUCCESSFULLY transplant a human head onto a buck's body, nothing we say about whitetail behavior amounts to more than an educated guess. Dr. Karl V. Miller, a [...]

THIS MAY COME as a shock to some readers, but I'm not the breezy ray of sunshine you might imagine from reading this column. I'm actually a prickly, antisocial loner [...]

SOMETIMES I LOSE stuff so fast that it looks like I never owned it in the first place. At the moment, for example, I am without my credit card, my [...]

WE LIVE IN A DUMBED-down age, in which experts are stupid, critical thinking is seen as a sign of weakness, and anything that requires scrolling is a 'deep read.' Those [...]

Rick has always been kind of a jerk, but he's become unbearable lately, always claiming the best stands, never showing up to the work party, and bringing his in-laws for [...]

Truth is, many pellet guns are little more than toys. If you want one that actually hits where you aim, time after time, here's your guide Not everything you know [...]

Early-season resident Canadas aren't as talkative as their migratory kin. Try to chat them up too much and they might avoid you like I avoid cocktail parties. This is true [...]

Brian O'Keefe wants to make sure I have both hat and head on straight before we launch the pontoon raft on a 15-mile stretch of a summer steelhead stream. 'We'll [...]

HARRY MURRAY'S STAINLESS STEEL SPATULA ZIPS FIVE GREEN PILLS AT A TIME ACROSS THE COUNTING TRAY AS HE GIVES AN ANIMATED TUTORIAL ON DRIFT NYMPHING, HIS FAVORITE smallmouth tactic. 'What [...]

THE BASS PRO HAD A TAN HE WOULD TAKE TO HIS GRAVE, AND A callused thumb upon which you could safely put out a cigarette. 'Every cast I make, I'm [...]

IT'S MIDSUMMER, AND THE GREEN WORLD has shifted into overdrive. The kudzu is moving faster than you are. Poison ivy is so happy, it's weeping dangerous tears. And out over [...]

I COULD BE OUT FISHING right now. Or scouting deer-stand locations. Or buying some idiot product that I'm convinced will make me a better angler or hunter. But as I [...]

I attribute the rising popularity of long-range hunting to what has become the cornerstone of modern American childhood--video games. Afriend recently recounted watching the son of a long-range hunter in [...]

I HAVE COME SKEET shooting to escape worrying about my daughter, who is 2,000 miles away and--because she is 19 and because she is my daughter--trying to kill me. Emma [...]

I HAD A COYOTE AT 10 FEET last year, didn't shoot, and the damn thing--with the lack of manners so widespread among wild animals--didn't even thank me for sparing its [...]

YOU'RE UNDOUBTEDLY familiar with elite anglers like me. We're the guys who catch more and bigger fish, dominate cable fishing shows, and charge outrageous fees to show up at car [...]

WAKE UP ENOUGH DAYS in a row and you'll be both a wily survivor and as relevant as the lapels on a suit. There was a time when young people [...]

As everyone who's ever checked in a doe has heard, you can't eat antlers. So why do an ever increasing number of hunters head out as soon as bucks start [...]

IT IS THE SUMMER OF 2007, and I'm sitting with seven other students in Billy McConnell's Sacred Art of Awareness class in Bozeman, Mont. In the next three hours, we [...]

Jay Yelas remembers the moment when the lightbulb came on. It was April 2006, and he was fishing a Professional Anglers Association tournament on Lake Fork. 'Thing is, I'd known [...]

AS RECENTLY AS WHEN the mention of a president's name didn't lead to familial violence, deer hunters divided the year into November (the rut) and everything else. If deer hunters [...]

AFTER MORE THAN 20 years of being a half-assed turkey hunter, I realize I don't enjoy it that much. This is heresy for an outdoor writer, who is supposed to [...]

A ROUND THE TIME you think you've earned a bit of peace and predictability, life springs the trap door beneath your feet, your feet churn like in a Road Runner [...]

A WHILE BACK, I was the guest of an Arkansas deer club whose members were still reeling from the suicide of one of their own two years earlier. Barry's death [...]

Persistence pays off. But not completely THEY SAY there's a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity, but I've never seen it. I've already whiffed twice on big Kansas bucks. So [...]

HE DREW ME WEARING panty hose, in a yellow medieval fool's costume, with icicles hanging from my nostrils. With a pig's nose, straitjacketed on a psychiatrist's couch, sporting antlers and [...]

WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES. It's what you do afterward that counts. If you keep a positive attitude, learn from your errors, and move on, you'll be fine. Not that I'd [...]

HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO PUT AN ARROW INTO A DEER? AND WHEN WILL THE REST OF MY LIFE START TO MATTER AGAIN? I found the only other guy [...]