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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 [...]

THE AUTHOR SPENT THE BEST SUMMERS OF HIS LIFE ON THE AU SABLE. LAST YEAR HE RETURNED TO THE RIVER TO REVISIT FORGOTTEN SPOTS, OLD GHOSTS, AND ONE LOST LOVE [...]

* A decades-long travel ban to Cuba has kept American anglers from experiencing some of the best flats fishing in the world. To see what we've been missing, the author [...]

AFTER WILDFIRES DESTROY THE FAMILIAR LANDSCAPE, THE AUTHOR BEGINS TO WONDER IF THIS WILL BE HIS LAST TRIP TO THE DESCHUTES. IF ONLY A STEELHEAD WOULD STRIKE, TO REMIND HIM [...]

SUMMER'S HERE AND SCHOOL IS OUT, WHICH MAKES NOW THE PERFECT TIME TO GET OUTSIDE WITH A YOUNG SPORTSMAN. HERE ARE 16 FUN TIPS AND PROJECTS TO TEACH KIDS AND [...]

It was the morning of October 28, opening day of rifle season, and I had hunted 40 days without seeing an elk. My failure stretched over three seasons, and if [...]

SUMMER IS SNAKE SEASON, SO YOU'D BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP, CONSIDER THIS YOUR SERPENT SURVIVAL GUIDE-COMPLETE WITH TIPS ON HOW TO IDENTIFY VENOMOUS SPECIES, LESSONS TO LEARN FROM NEAR-DEATH SNAKE [...]

As I got a fire burning with pages torn from an old paperback, my brother, Kevin, shuffled down the hill to the creek. The book was The Moviegoer, and I'd [...]

IN THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS, THESE OUTDOORSMEN ENCOUNTERED THE WORST NIGHTMARES THE WILD CAN CONJURE. BUT THANKS TO SMARTS, WILLPOWER, AND A LITTLE LUCK, THEY SURVIVED. HERE ARE THEIR STORIES, [...]

SUMMER'S HERE. TIME TO FISH. AND WE DON'T MEAN FOR JUST A FEW HOURS. NOT EVEN A DAY WILL DO. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GETTING ON THE WATER AND STAYING THERE [...]

GORILLA GEAR UNDERCOVER FX2 $100 GORILLABLINDS.COM I tested this blind while turkey hunting in central Michigan last spring and found that it set up easily, quickly, and relative y quietly [...]

THE FLOATPLANE DRONED AWAY. Except for a grizzly bear that had stood up to watch us touch down, we were alone on the lake, a 100-mile float from the middle [...]

LAST FALL, GRAY WOLVES IN THE NORTHERN ROCKIES CAME OFF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST AND BECAME LEGAL GAME FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES. WHEN ROBERT MILLAGE KILLED THE FIRST [...]

THAK RIDGE | N. 19.18377 | E 80.23480 YOU'D WALK BY the rock if you didn't know its history. Little different from others on the ridge, it is a slab [...]

The first time I traveled to the Thompson River, I had a nagging suspicion I had forgotten to pack something important. Spey rod, reels, fly boxes. It wasn't tackle I [...]

In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp's character, Capt. Jack Sparrow, navigates with a magic compass whose needle points toward the object of the heart's desire. Orienteering differs [...]

... Search and Rescue is the story of the hunter and the hunted, of the lost and the found. Even as darkness falls and the walls of the forest press [...]

The knife is the most versatile outdoor tool. With a knife you can create the tools to trap and kill fish, birds, and game, and then you can use it [...]

BACK FROM ELK HUNTING this weekend in the wolf country up in the Madison: My brother and I guided his son, Brandon, who is a varsity soccer player in college [...]

BEFORE THE INFORMATION AGE, WHEN ALL A HUNTER HAD to go on were out-of-date USGS maps, complex regulation pamphlets, and a telephone, setting up a do-it-yourself elk hunt was a [...]

My father was a night fisherman, a quiet, self-reliant man who wore old felt fedoras and smoked a pipe to keep the bugs at bay. He lit our campfire with [...]

STRANDED ON A SUNNY JANUARY MORNING LAST YEAR, STEVE CASIAS, 48, AND HIS SON JORDAN, 14, WERE HUNTING RABBITS IN COLORADO'S APISHAPA STATE WILDLIFE AREA WITH FIVE FRIENDS WHEN A [...]

SURVIVE IS WHAT NATURE EQUIPPED THEM TO DO ALL THOSE AGO. LIKE THE great sharks, like the carnivorous dinosaurs, they are masters of predation. But until very recently, they were [...]

You can have all the right moves, but when you don't have the right stuff, it costs you deer. It happens more often than you think, because it happens subtly...when [...]

We drove west, listening to book tapes of treasures on land and at sea. Tom Sawyer was the first, then Treasure Island and the quest for gold in Call of [...]

Hawken. Sharps. Say the names and they reverberate like gunshots. They were the guns of a time in American history that today seems almost mythological. Of course, the guns were [...]

LIKE MANY YOUNG MEN, I CAME WEST WITH dreams of fortune. But I ran out of money in Montana, and wound up spending my first autumn in a tent beside [...]

The South Fork of the Flathead River is the blue artery that drains the heart of the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Its upper reaches are as far as you can get [...]

I grew up with a copy of Raymond Ditmar's Snakes of the World on my bed-stand and an old hunting sock of my father's tucked in my back pocket. After [...]

EACH TIME WE COME HERE THE SNOW IS DEEPER. Today the white blanket swallows my son's knees; white puffs rise from his breath. The hem of his orange mesh vest [...]

FRED BEAR (1902-1988) In 1927, a Detroit pattern maker named Fred Bear saw a movie entitled 'Alaskan Adventures' that featured the bowhunting exploits of Saxton Pope and Art Young. It [...]

IN THE FALL of 1991, my wife's sweet peas bloomed until the opening day of elk season. * I packed my car for a hunt in the Pioneer Mountains, working [...]

When night came, Scott Firman heard the coyotes howl and thought he would die. Earlier in the day, his father had sent him around a forested knob to flush out [...]

One only has to look to the old .58-caliber caplock hanging over my mantle to see that I speak from experience. I carved the stock from a dense piece of [...]

The guy everybody admires at hunting camp--you know who we're talking about-he's got them. The competitors at the Total Outdoorsman Challenge, they have them, too. They possess the essentials: the [...]