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The proliferation of invasive wild hogs across the lower portion of the United States has created a golden opportunity for those of us who like to load up our freezers [...]

With hunting season at hand, you're probably not spending a lot of time thinking about next spring and summer and how you'll keep your dog in top mental and physical [...]

The old, solitary bull was massive, and he appeared to be rather grumpy. He was down on his knees, grunting and raking his horns back and forth, digging into the [...]

India, Feb. 13 -- For more than 500,000 years, early humans used to hunt big prey in the open grasslands of Africa by throwing spears from large distances. This helped [...]

BIRDS DO IT. BEES DO IT. And hunters should rejoice that antlered and homed game do it. That's because bucks and bulls that spend the rest of the year in [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Asia: enigma, epic, paradox--cell phones and camel transportation, nomads and solar panels, the twenty-first century beside the twelfth. A topic too large for ten million words, yet how […]

IT'S A SHAME, BUT LOTS OF FOLKS WHO CALL THEMSELVES OUTDOORSMEN these days have little or no knowledge of the basic woodsmanship skills that can make life outdoors safer, more [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My dad used to say that you should always leave the dinner table feeling as if you could eat just a little bit more. I suppose my recent […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "A man can have a wall of horns and never be a hunter," Shuswap hunter Charley told me, a wannabe seventeen-year-old on my first Canadian hunt in British […]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sheep have always held a special fascination for me. Maybe it's because they live in such spectacular environments. Maybe it's because they represent such a tremendous physical and […]

I stared in disbelief at one of the biggest, most unusual elk I'd ever seen in my life, struggling to guess what it would score. There was no hurry, though; […]

Francois Rudman, my guide, spotted the ram feeding in the shade of a jagged overhang. It was getting late, but the ram looked good in the spotting scope and the […]

The nineteenth-century journalist Ambrose Bierce, well regarded for his short stories about the Civil War and the supernatural, was also renowned for The Devil's Dictionary, a sort of handbook for […]

We'd been following the tracks for about three hours. We knew the herd was near because we'd glimpsed buffalo in the brush ahead, just at the limit of our vision. […]

An expedition undertaken for Dall sheep hunting by three friends to one of Alaska's wild and isolated spots marked by glacial mountains is recounted. The steps taken after sighting the giant rams till the moment one of them is successfully shot down are explained in detail.

Scientists once thought that Smilodon killed by knifelike stabs of its canines. But studies of the strength and length of its neck and muscle attachments have led to new theories. [...]

YOU STRIKE ME AS A PERSON TO WHOM MANNERS MATTER. BUT DOES THAT APPLY TO HUNTING CAMP? -William Blake, New Haven, Conn. It applies with even more force in hunting [...]

Hunters accompanied by Eskimos and umiaks are on an expedition to hunt the bull walrus. However, they experience the pluck and tenacity of the bull walrus when it begins to attack one of the Eskimo hunters. The way in which the Eskimo hunters escaped from the dangerous situation is described in detail.

AS WE BEGIN A NEW DECADE, handgunners are realizing a new normal: Miniature red-dot sights are quickly becoming the primary sighting system on virtually all pistols, whether for hunting, sport [...]

TOM LOY OF TALLGRASS GORDON SETTERS sits by the whelping box, where a litter of 3-day-old setter puppies navigate their tiny universe from behind closed eyes. One by one, Loy [...]

A personal account of a caribou hunting trip in Alaska. Advice is given for others planning on coming to Alaska to hunt caribou, include how to find and book air taxis and how to actually hunt the animals.

An analysis of mountain goat hunting in Alaska. Hunting mountain goats can be a tricky prospect as an ill-judged shot can send the goat careening over a cliff, destroying its coat and horns.

Knowing the distance to your target is not always important. Sometimes it's like knowing the distance to a destination: As long as the course is correct, distance is a detail. [...]