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Editor's Note: Sure, you say, it's easy to talk about opportunity in the abstract, but how about real life ? Okay, we say, here are some real-life examples of hunters [...]

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 Turkey Hunters are an odd bunch. All winter long we sit up night after night, scratching slate, scraping wood, or choking on latex reeds -- all so we can [...]

Thirty-pound char in the river, pulsating plums of bugs that follow you like a friendly dog, and an afternoon snack of neonatal duck, straight up. Just another day in the [...]

What was once a biological wasteland slowly recovered and evolved into something near paradise for America's sportsmen. Woods and waters in the Northeastern states have in many cases healed old [...]

In October, when the big flights come down from the north to pause on the St. Lawrence River before going on to the mid-Atlantic states, generations of snow goose hunters [...]

WHEN THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE FAR northern coasts set out to design boats specifically for hunting and fishing, the boats they developed were excellent examples of form following function. [...]

WHEN MOST DEER hunters take to the hills, I go the other way and head for water. The reason: most deer hunters will not be there. In fact, so few [...]

LYING ON THE COLD, DAMP GROUND THAT DRIZzly spring night up in the country north of Kipewa in western Quebec, the last thing I wanted to show up was a [...]

'SORRY ABOUT YOUR GUIDE, MARCEL,' THE OUTFITTER APOLOGIZED. 'HE WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT GOING WITH YOU ON THIS TRIP THAT HE ... UH ... WELL ... HE GOT DRUNK. YOU'LL [...]

I first saw him the year I built my log cabin up in the big woods along the New Hampshire/Quebec border. I had gone down to the river for a [...]

Nothing boosts a deer hunter's confidence like the sight of lots of deer tracks in a big chunk of empty country. The riverbank near the place where we set up [...]

IN OUR EVER-CHANGING WORLD, YOU EITHER learn new skills or join rotary phones and manual typewriters on the scrap heap of life. Continuing education has become the mark of an [...]

IF YOU'VE EVER DREAMED OF OWNING A DEVICE THAT MAKES WHITE-TAILS STOP, TURN, AND COME SLOWLY TO YOUR STAND... QUIT DREAMING! 'The surest way to draw a deer in close [...]

It's not until the hills and valleys have turned brown and gray in late October that the biggest runs of Atlantic salmon move into Nova Scotia's north shore rivers and [...]

AS OUR TWO CANOES LEFT THE BEACH IN FRONT OF THE DELAY RIVER OUTFITTERS' CAMP AND TURNED NORTH, BARNABE RAPHAEL, OUR MONTAGNAIS INDIAN GUIDE, BEGAN HUMMING. 'My fishing song,' he [...]

After years of taking the rear seat to salmon, this once-thriving fishery has finally bounced back. The water was so clear that I could plainly see a school of little [...]

Labrador is famous for its huge brook trout and outstanding Atlantic salmon fishing, but until now, only a few lodges have captured most of the publicity that the sporting press [...]

THESE TURKEY DECOYS WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT HUNTING GOBBLERS AND SAFETY. There was no question about it, this turkey was coming in. He had gobbled only four [...]

NORTH BY LATE NOVEMBER, winter has a lock on the northern tier of states. * Temperatures slide into the teens or lower, snow may lie knee-deep or deeper, and the [...]

'WHEN THEY FIRST appeared 'round here I hated the whole idea of a coyote--I didn't even like the look of their tracks,' Vermont houndsman Wilbur Griggs growled. Then his voice [...]

COUNTRY WISDOM SAYS THAT IF YOU PUT A BOY ON A STUMP AND TELL HIM TO STAY THERE UNTIL A BUCK COMES ALONG, AND HE'S FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GET HIS [...]

THE FURROWS OF GRAIN leading to the September dove season are parched from summer yet filled with promise. The mourning dove opener is the traditional 'coming out' for hunters in [...]

'My canoe was ready and I was waitin' at the dock with my foot on the gunnel when my sport cam down with his wife,' the wool-shirted Maine guide explained. [...]

It all happens so quietly that you might say it's no big deal. But you'd be wrong. On a Saturday morning in Connecticut auto mechanic named Bruce Bernier is buying [...]