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LESSONS AND STORIES FROM THE EXPERTS

Shoot To Recruit

Busting clays is a great way to develop new hunters. Here’s your lesson plan

The Total Outdoorsman - The One

Some days, if you’re lucky and if you listen closely, the trout will tell you exactly what they want.

One Wild Summer

FROM THE FIRST OF JUNE TO THE END OF AUGUST, YOUHAVE 92 DAYS TO FISH, HUNT, CAMP, AND HAVE THETIME OF YOUR LIFE. LET’S DO THIS

One Lasting Cast

Some trout strikes are textbook. Other times, you have to get a little creative (or lucky) with your presentation. 

Fresh Mag

Weatherby’s 6.5/300 gives a classic bullet new long-range legs—and may be its best magnum ever.

Four Of A Kind

From callers to crawlers, the spring gobbler woods are full of characters.

Lockjaw Lessons

What should’ve been a dream trip turned into a brutal reminder of just how tough fishing can be

Five Reasons You Missed That Dove

Another bird will fly by soon. Here’s how to fix your problems and knock the next one down

Read The Beans

How to hunt the soyfields when they’re hot

Food - Plot Rx Nocturnal Bucks

Get deer on a daylight feeding schedule

Busted!

How to find and tag the buck you spooked

Thin-Pounded Venison Steaks

This grilled meal will be ready for chow time in no time flat

Relish The Weenie

Is it an inchworm? Is it a caddis? Who cares? These little green morsels crush big trout

Year Of The Giant

Last season was special for top-end bucks, and 2017 could be even better

Devil's In The Details

On days when the fishing goes south, a closer look at your surroundings can make all the difference

M&P Advanced By Design

Complete Shootability: Light, Crisp M2.0 Trigger Tactile Reset. Aggressive Texture. Optimal Grip Angle.

Small Wonders

Tiny tracts can give up giant bucks—and have advantages big acreages don’t. Follow this fourstep plan for hunting one

Woods Rx: Overexposure

How to keep your land, and your deer, out of the public eye

At the Crossroads

Crossbows are deadlier than vertical bows—but you can learn to like them both.

The Land Wars

The recent movement to do away with the concept of federal lands has nothing to do with freedom. It’s just the opposite—and would change hunting and fishing as we know it.

Run A Mok

Amid the chaos of one of the country’s craziest spawning runs,the author discovers the Zen-like secret to salmon fishing. Hint: It doesn’t involve actually catching fish.

Flipping Genius

Find, hook, and wrench monster bass out of the lily pads like a pro.

Hallowed Ground

When you find a hot timber hole for mallards, guard it with your life and enjoy it while the greenheads are here

Marsh Madness

Fishermen have proposed a way to restore the Everglades and South Florida rivers, but will their idea ever become a reality? 

The Perfect Storm

A rough, open-water sea duck hunt in Chesapeake Bay proves to be an action packed adventure

A Buck For All Seasons

What was supposed to be a one-time deer hunt in the Nebraska Sandhills turned into a years-long campaign that finally ended last December, with the whitetail of a lifetime

So You Want To Kill A World-Record Whitetail?

Are you ready for the sudden fame, social-media backlash, and crazed animal-rights crowd? Stephen Tucker says it’s all totally worth it. Here’s how the Tennessee farmer’s life changed after tagging the largest hunter-killed whitetail buck ever

Ghosts Of Africa

FOR HIS FINAL SAFARI, THE AUTHOR STALKED AN ANIMAL HE HAS LONG BEEN FASCINATED BY: THE CAPE BUFFALO

The Meat Doe

For the author, taking wild game out of the woods is the ultimate, and noblest,trophy.