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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 [...]

Fifteen years ago, James 'Big Jim' Babcock hunted with a stickbow for the first time--and was hooked. Today, he crafts some of the finest laminated-limb recurves and longbows in the [...]

PHASE ONE EVERYBODY loves November, but if you know where a certain stud buck lives, late October is the time to get him. With testosterone building, he's ready to breed, [...]

Some people just know how to get it done in the end--to close Game 7 or wrap up the deer season with an absolute stud of a buck. Together, these [...]

Fifty expert tips for hunting every phase of the rut, including 2018's must-hunt dates PHASE ONE LATE PRE-RUT I WAS too green to name what I'd found, but the ovals [...]

I'm just old enough to remember when the knee-high rubber boot first hit the modern deer hunting scene. Like so many trends, it started innocently enough; one whitetail expert--featured in [...]

WE HAVE A TENDENCY to use words to death, to the point where they lose their meaning, and foremost among these is iconic. Today, if something works reasonably well and [...]

THESE HUNTERS RISKED EATING THEIR TAGS, SAT IN THE SAME STANDS FOR HUNDREDS OF HOURS, AND PUT THEIR JOBS AND FAMILIES ON HOLD--ALL FOR THAT ONE DEER. THEIR EPIC TALES [...]

Phase One: LATE PRE-RUT x THE LOWDOWN * Does aren't yet ready to breed, but bucks are feeling increasingly amorous, moving more within their home range, rubbing and scraping. It's [...]

Mortally wounded bucks can behave in strange ways, but the giant Illinois whitetail had even John Engelken shaking his head. After leaving a huge tract of timber, the buck walked [...]

LATE-SEASON BUCKS ARE THE SURVIVORS-THE SMARTEST, MOST RECLUSIVE DEER IN THE WODDS. TO TAG ONE NOW, YOU'LL HAVE TO WORK HARDER THAN EVER TO EARN IT. HERE ARE SEVEN EXTREME [...]

BUST OUT THE CALENDAR. HERE ARE OUR PICKS FOR THE SEVEN RUT DATES WHEN YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST BE IN THE WHITETAIL WOODS THIS FALL. YOU MIGHT BE COMING DOWN WITH [...]

My neighbors, Dave and Alan, each killed the biggest whitetails of their lives this past fall. But these weren't just any deer, they were bucks we'd come to know well; [...]

TAGGING A 200-INCH BUCK IS WHITETAIL HUNTING'S HOLY GRAIL-SOMETHING THAT MOST MORTALS CAN ONLY DREAM ABOUT ATTAINING. YET EACH OF THESE FOUR MEN HAS DONE IT AT LEAST TWICE, MAKING [...]

We spent four days testing the year's top new vertical bows and crossbows--more than 20 models in total. Here are the ones you'll want to hunt with this fall FIELD [...]

Guerrilla is of Spanish Irigin, often translate! to mean 'little war.' Mostly, it's Used for describing unconventional tactics like ambushes, hit-and-runs, and traps. If you're a turkey hunter, you've probably [...]

The whitetail boom is over. In just five years, deer numbers have plummeted in some states. Is this the 'crash' some have predicted or a blip in an era of [...]

YOU KNOW THAT LEGENDARY DEER THAT NO ONE CAN KILL? THE ONE THAT NEVER SHOWS BEFORE DARK, IGNORES YOUR CALLS, SKIRTS YOUR MOCK SCRAPES, AND RUNS AWAY FROM YOUR DECOY? [...]

YOU KNOW THAT THE BIGGEST BUCKS WILL BE TEARING UP THE WOODS, SMASHING HEADS, AND RUNNING DOES EVERYWHERE. THE ONLY QUESTIONS ARE: HOW WILL YOU HUNT AND WHEN? INSIDE ARE [...]

OUR READERS TAGGED SOME HUGE BUCKS ON LAST YEAR'S BEST DAYS. SO WE DROPPED IN AT THE HOMES AND CAMPS OF FOUR TO HEAR THEIR STORIES AND HELP SHOW OFF [...]

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, [...]

IN OUR NATIONAL SURVEY, 70 WHITETAIL EXPERTS DISH THE TRUTH ON TOP TACTICS, GREAT GEAR, GIMMICKS, AND BIG-BUCK B.S. PLUS, THREE OF THE COUNTRY'S BEST AND MOST OUTSPOKEN PROS SHARE [...]

PATTERNING A WALL-HANGER WHITETAIL IS NEVER SIMPLER THAN IT IS RIGHT NOW. THE KEY TO KILLING ONE, HOWEVER, IS IN THE AMBUSH. THESE FIVE GUIDES CREATE EARLY-SEASON SETUPS FOR A [...]

BUYER'S GUIDE A BATTLE OF GREAT BOWS After only a few hours of shooting, we knew that this would be a brawl. In April, the F&S bow-test team gathered as [...]

AFTER A LONG SEASON OF GUIDING CLIENTS. IT'S FINALLY THEIR TURN TO HUNT. WE ASKED EIGHT OF THE COUNTRY'S TOP OUTFITTERS TO REVEAL THEIR PERSONAL GO-TO TACTICS FOR TAGGING THE [...]

CAN'T TAKE SEVEN WEEKS OFF TO HUNT DEER THIS YEAR? USE OUR GUIDE TO THE SEVEN RED-HOT, JUST-GET-OUT-THERE DAYS OF 2014 TO TAG A WALL-HANGER. WE EVEN GIVE YOU A [...]

WITH MORE PRESSURE FROM HUNTERS AND PREDATORS, ELK HUNTING AS WE USED TO KNOW IT HAS CHANGED FOR GOOD. BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE A STALK FOR THESE BIG-GAME TROPHIES ANY [...]

The article discusses factors to consider when deciding whether to move or stay in turkey hunting. The size of the hunting property is an important factor, as smaller tracts may require hunters to stay in one spot to avoid spooking the turkeys. The available time for hunting also plays a role, with different strategies depending on the time of day and the amount of time the hunter has. The breeding phase of the turkeys is another critical factor, as their behavior changes during different stages of the breeding season. Finally, the article mentions the importance of reading the turkey's gobbling temperature to determine their mood and adjust hunting tactics accordingly. [Extracted from the article]

YOU COULDN'T MISS THIS BUCK, and not just because he was hitting the same feeding area day after day. There was the rack. The landowner described the buck's velvet antlers, [...]

Learning to hunt well with a crossbow can require some trial and error. Here's what to expect when you cross over. By all rights, the hunt should have been a [...]

If there's enough fade in your camo, you've heard the arguments. For some bowhunters, the greatest invention since the compound bow is the mechanical--or expandable--broadhead. They fly like a field [...]

No, it wasn't a monster buck. In fact, it was a doe. But I wanted a doe because the freezer was bare. And she walked by in perfect bow range, [...]

DO YOU KNOW WHAT STARTS IN A FEW WEEKS? NO, NOT JUST BOW SEASON. YOUR BEST BOW SEASON EVER! HERE'S HOW TO PREPARE FOR fl KILLER FALL, ARROW YOUR DREAM [...]

LOTS OF FOLKS LOVE TURKEY HUNTING. BUT THESE FOUR GUYS ARE TOTALLY NUTS ABOUT IT, AS IN GONE-FOR-THREE-MONTHS, DRIVE-ALL-NIGHT, NO-SLEEP, BELLY-CRAWL-THROUGH-A-SWAMP, FORGET-MARRIED-LIFE CRAZY ABOUT SPRING GOBBLERS. AND YOU CAN LEARN [...]

STILL GOT YOUR TAG? YOU NEED A SLAM-DUNK CLOSEOUT STRATEGY. WE ASKED SOME OF THE COUNTRY'S SHARPEST DEER HUNTING EXPERTS TO REVEAL THEIR GO-TO, MUST-SCORE, LATE-SEASON TACTICS. HERE'S HOW THESE [...]

YOU'VE BEEN ANTICIPATING IT ALL YEAR--THE TIME WHEN BUCKS CAN DROP THEIR GUARD AND YOU CAN DROP A HAMMER [IN A WALL-HANGER YOU'LL ADMIRE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. [...]

ANYONE CAN FOLLOW A GOOD BLOOD TRAIL. BUT A DROP HERE, A SMEAR THERE, THEN MAYBE NO BLOOD AT ALL? THAT TAKES SKILL. HERE'S HOW TO RECOVER YOUR BUCK UNDER [...]

One of the seven tenets of the North American Model of Conservation is that wildlife policy should be dictated by science, and hunters are the principal tool biologists use to [...]

IF YOU NEED AN ANTIDOTE FOR TROPHY MADNESS, TAKE OUR CRASH COURSE ON HUNTING PUBLIC LAND, SMALL PARCELS, AND PRESSURED DEER OF ALL SIZES. OF COURSE, YOU MIGHT JUST TAG [...]

LONG BRACE HEIGHT? SHORT AXLE-TO-AXLE? FALLAWAY REST? SKINNY GRIP? WHAT REALLY MAKES THE PERFECT COMPOUND BOW SETUP FOR YOUR TYPE OF HUNTING? WE LAUNCHED MORE THAN 10,000 ARROWS TO FIND [...]

Wednesday OCTOBER 24TH (DAY 1) * THE RISING AFTERNOON MOON on this first Best Day of the rut should provide a strong kick start to the 2012 season. That event, [...]

THINK OCTOBER DEER HUNTING IS SLOW? THESE HUNTERS PROVE THAT THE 10TH MONTH IS A FINE TIME TO TAG A GIANT. SO TAKE A LESSON. IN FACT, TAKE 10 LESSON [...]

STATE: Montana BIGGEST BULL: 290-point 6x6 RIFLE: Winchester M70 CALIBER: 300WSM SCOPE: Leupold Vari-X III 1.75-6x32mm ('1 usually have it set on 1,75Xwhen I am hunting in the timber') AMMUNITION: [...]

For Sam Collora, it all started with a pair of sheds. Nothing strange there; deer hunters are motivated by cast antlers every year. But these antlers were unique. What Collora [...]

WHEN I FIRST STARTED using one, a trail camera was just a 35mm film point-and-shoot tucked in a weatherproof housing. It snapped a single picture when something triggered the sensor. [...]

BY THE FALL of 2010, the relationship between Wisconsin deer hunters and the state Department of Natural Resources had turned so publicly toxic that then gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker parlayed [...]

* Monday October 31 * Halloween day should kick-start the rut. The reasons are simple yet exciting. First, that crescent moon will be rising at midday and in the sky [...]