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The locals refer to the corridors sliced through the thick Texas underbrush as senderos, a Spanish word for path or trail. A few are natural, but most are man-made. For [...]

Sitting in a classroom last December at the famous Gunsite shooting facility, I listened as engineers from the gunmaker DPMS explain how they had removed nearly a pound from their [...]

Rock River Arms (RRA) has always garnered its share of ardent followers, much of it built on their quality rifles built around the .223/5.56 cartridge. That said, the big news [...]

FROM NOT ENOUGH TROPHY BUCKS TO A PERCEIVED LACK OF DEER IN GENERAL, HUNTERS HAVE ADOPTED A SURLY ATTITUDE. WHY? Call it the 'season of the angry deer hunter.' That [...]

As an American consumer, I have some truly deep-seated feelings about the relationship between cost and quality. As in, the more something costs, the better it is supposed to be. [...]

If you don't immediately associate the words 'Mossberg' and 'tactical' with each other, that's understandable. After all, O.F. Mossberg and Sons have a well-established reputation for building workhorse shotguns and [...]

NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, LANDOWNERS TEND TO JEALOUSLY GUARD HUNTING PRIVILEGES ON THEIR PROPERTIES. SO WHEN THEY INVITE YOU TO HUNT DEER ON THEIR LAND, YOU KNOW THEY ARE [...]

My very first shot with Remington's new hi-tech rifle system was at a steel silhouette target 326 yards away. I 'tagged' the steel with the NASA-like digital optic, lined up [...]

The opening day of deer season connects our diverse nation of hunters like few other events. And this fall, as in most years, hunting will be excellent in some areas--thanks [...]

ONCE the fall hunting seasons arc over, coyotes provide an increasingly popular hunting opportunity. Yet the coyote of the winter months of February and March isn't exactly the same animal [...]

Matthew Sutton had just shot a fat Sitka doe. about 1,800 feet up a mountainside overlooking Viekoda Bay, on Kodiak Island, Alaska. It was Sunday, October 26. 2008, around noon, [...]

Shooting your favorite, firearm is a lot more fun when you have some new 'stuff,' right? Right! Lots of good new offerings to fill up your list of 'stuff' that's [...]

Cleaning game, cutting down a target, making a field-expedient repair: there are 1001 very good reasons a knife, a tool or a gadget should be part of your shooting kit. [...]

THE AMERICAN POLITICAL landscape experienced the geologic equivalent of a decent-sized earthquake on November 2, 2010, when Republicans swept into control of the U.S. House of Representatives, plus made very [...]

So let's begin with the obvious: a 'best of' ranking of anything--people, places or things--comes with a big dose of subjectivity. In selecting the best towns for handgun owners and [...]

Is there a new American gun mecca? The Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa is home to a thriving gun industry, as well as a very strong gun culture. [...]

Whether you're a serious shooter, a weekend plinker, or a hunter, there's a wide world of accessories out there to make your shooting more effective, more efficient, and just a [...]

To many of the hunters at the Vermont deer registration station, something was amiss. Yes, the deer about to be checked in last November carried a nice 10-point rack. But [...]

Every year, hundreds of sportsmen find themselves suddenly thrust into extreme situations--including life-or-death ordeals--in which brains and bodies are forced into split-second reactions. The good news is that many of [...]

The first U.S. mad cow was diagnosed just last year, but for more than 30 years, deer in certain parts of this country are known to have been afflicted by [...]

Tracks and fleeting glimpses from recent hunting seasons had Rick Seipel of New London, Minnesota, thinking that a huge buck lived in his hunting area. Probably. But circumstantial evidence became [...]

The helicopter rises up over the ridge line, the noise of the rotors scattering the targets below. But the snipers in the doorway already have their scoped, high-powered rifles locked [...]

THE HANDSOME SAILOR Larry Duberstein Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent Press, 1998 266 pp., $25.00 A finely told novel fictionalizes the life of one of America's most important literary figures, Herman [...]

An otherwise fine novel about race and injustice in early-twentieth-century America trips over its own good intentions. Who built America? Too often, the credit goes to business magnates and politicians, [...]

IN ONE YEAR ALONE, AN AVERAGE OF 200,000 book reviews are published in this country. This means that there is a real opportunity for aspiring book reviewers who are willing [...]

No doubt about it--this is a great time to be a black bear hunter. The eastern half of the United States is now home to an estimated 197,000 black bears, [...]

Most sportsmen think of the Conservation Reserve Program as the Holy Grail of land conservation programs, with its 31 million CRP acres removed from agricultural production and now 'growing' untold [...]

Wildfires raged across much of western Texas last April. Three huge tires alone charred hall a million Lone Star acres. There were 11,300 Texas wildfires in all, burning more than [...]

IN ANY LISTING OF 'THE Best' or 'Top 10,' how do you rank one person over another? When it comes to anglers, the world of professional fishing provides a good [...]

AS HE HURTLED DOWN A slope on Alaska's Kodiak Island, flat on his back and picking up speed, Jackson Fox had a good deal on his mind. The rocks tearing [...]

He's just one man, and we're just one bimonthly magazine, so we decided to cover the presidential contest, governorship battles, U.S. Senate races and key U.S. House races featuring major [...]

Last November, six deer hunters were shot to death by another hunter in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, over what allegedly was a trespassing dispute. Two other hunters were also wounded in [...]

Last September, a ranger at Yosemite National Park shot and killed three wild turkeys out of a flock of five the ranger spotted within park boundaries. Why were the turkeys [...]

It's difficult to pinpoint the exact moment when a political issue gains the kind of momentum that pushes it to a win. But for Michigan's recently approved dove hunt, that [...]

With over 120 million Americans participating in outdoor activities each year, it's no wonder that there are dozens of national and regional magazines serving this market. Add the scores of [...]

Byline: J.R. ABSHER, BRIAN McCOMBIE OL's first annual awards in a program to honor those who've had the greatest positive impact on hunting and fishing TWO YEARS AGO, we began [...]

Byline: Brian McCombie To witness the cost of having too few hunters, look no further than Hokkaido, Japan. There, burgeoning populations of Yezo deer and wild boar have wreaked havoc [...]

Byline: Brian McCombie There's nothing funny about invasive species...except what happens the weekend of the Redneck Fishing Tournament I'd just netted my third silver carp of the day, 15 pounds [...]

Byline: Brian McCombie, Doug Howlett OUTDOOR LIFE's guide offers great gift ideas to satisfy every budget Make the folks on your list think you took a lot of time and [...]

Byline: DOUG HOWLETT, BRIAN McCOMBIE From the snowy hardwoods of the North to the piney forests of the South, hunters make their pilgrimage each autumn to remote farms and forests [...]

Byline: Brian McCombie Scientists at the University of Wisconsin have found that Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) prions, the infective brain proteins that transmit CWD, readily latch on to a common [...]

Byline: Brian McCombie Nationwide, populations are unstable Minnesota moose populations have taken a huge tumble in the last 20 years, and no one's entirely sure why. The state's northwestern herd [...]

Byline: Brian McCombie It's been impossible for Larry Polonec to replace Harold, his friend and hunting dog, who was shot to death by a neighbor while Polonec and Harold were [...]

Byline: Brian McCombie As thousands of miles of new roads, many of them on federal lands, are built to service the thousands of gas and oil wells springing up in [...]

Byline: Brian McCombie Hunts possible as populations thrive 'We have more elk now in Minnesota than we've had in 50 years,'says Ralph Cinfio, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) state director. [...]