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The 2018 Bowhunting Gift Guide

Skip the stores and find the perfect gift for the bowhunter in your life right here in our guide. Then use all the time you saved to go hunting

Skip the stores and find the perfect gift for the bowhunter in your life right here in our guide. Then use all the time you saved to go hunting…
Original author: Tony Hansen, Alex Robinson


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Lame Duck Session Could Be Key for the Land and Water Conservation Fund Reauthorization

On the marsh, a lame duck session involves a well-trained retriever. In Congress this year, the Lame Duck Session offers a last effort to breathe life back into the Land…
Original author: Ben Long


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Hunter Harvests one of Nebraska's Largest Whitetails

Andy Morgan, one of tournament bass fishing’s best, arrows a bruiser whitetail in Nebraska

Bowhunter Andy Morgan's patience was rewarded on a hot evening in mid-September this year when he arrowed a monster whitetail with a gross score somewhere in the…
Original author: Colin Moore


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The Best Hunting Blinds for any Budget

The latest and greatest ground blind options for hunting game at eye level

A serviceable hide is one that can withstand some measure of inclement weather—wind, rain, or snow. The capacity should be large enough for the task at hand, it should…
Original author: Tony Hansen


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How to Make Your Own Lighted Nock

This DIY nock is easy to make and only costs about $3.50

I can rattle off a number of valid, high-value reasons that bowhunters should use nothing but lighted nocks in the field. Knowing exactly where your arrow hit is at the…
Original author: Tony Hansen


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How to Fish the Fall Baitfish Migration

Nail down the rhythm, pace, and timing of baitfish movements to keep up with the fiery, and fleeting, action

What matters to fall anglers is that at some point in Autumn, Mother Nature will flip a switch and crappie, trout, redfish, and pike will no longer be found at whichever…
Original author: Joe Cermele


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The 2018 Rifle Shooter’s Holiday Gift Guide

Christmas gift ideas for the target shooter on your shopping list

Christmas gift ideas for the target shooter on your shopping list…
Original author: Tyler Freel


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The Waterfowl Hunter’s Holiday Gift Guide

If the person at the top of your Christmas shopping list is a waterfowler, you’re in luck. Of all the hunting pursuits, waterfowl hunting is the most gear intensive…
Original author: Jarrod Spilger, Alex Robinson


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The 2018 Women’s Hunting Gift Guide

Our favorite hunting gear for female hunters

Gear up for gift-giving during the greatest season of the year—hunting season—with these women’s gear picks. Most are well-suited for cold weather hunts, though a few…
Original author: Natalie Krebs


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10 Holiday Gift Ideas for Bass Fisherman

New rods, reels, lures, and more gear that will make your favorite angler smile

Because it's so hard to find a present for the bass fisherman that has everything, we've combed through the latest rods, reels, lures, and accessories unveiled in 2018…
Original author: Mark Modoski


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The 2018 Camping Gear Gift Guide

Good gear to help you enjoy a night (or more) under the stars

Good gear to help you enjoy a night (or more) under the stars.
Original author: Gerry Bethge, Ben Romans


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Optics Buyer’s Gift Guide: Budget Scopes, Binos, and Spotters That Are Worth a Closer Look

You can pay thousands for best-in-class sports optics, but don’t overlook some excellent values at the other end of the price spectrum this holiday season

You can pay thousands for best-in-class sports optics, but don’t overlook some excellent values at the other end of the price spectrum this holiday season.
Original author: Andrew McKean


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How to Make Sure Your Bow is Properly Tuned During the Season (When it Matters Most)

It doesn’t matter how much time you spent shooting and tuning your bow before bow season started. How your bow was shooting may or may not be how it's shooting now. And…
Original author: Tony Hansen


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Gun News of the Week: Bloomberg-Bankrolled Groups Outspending Pro-Gun Advocates by 40 Percent

Plus: GOP-Controlled Congress, State Legislatures—Not Kavanaugh, Courts—Best Way to Protect Gun Rights

Unless Republicans can retain control of Congress and a significant majority of state legislatures in the upcoming mid-term elections, as well as the presidency in the…
Original author: John Haughey


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10 Myths About Hunting Mature Whitetail Bucks

It’s time to bust some of the most prevalent mistruths about big deer

It’s time to bust some of the most prevalent mistruths about big deer. The is knocking on the door. The time is near. Bucks will run willy nilly across the landscape and…
Original author: Tony Hansen


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How to Choose the Right Survival Knife

10 tips to help you find the sharpest, strongest and most dependable blade

Not all survival knives are the same, and you are likely better off sacrificing a knife that looks "cool" or tries to serve multiple functions a blade that's stronger,…
Original author: Tim MacWelch


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Land A Trophy Muskie This Fall

How to find and fool one of the greatest freshwater game fish this fall

When water temperatures begin to drop in the fall, big muskie begin following large schools of bait and feeding hard to prepare for winter, making it the perfect time…
Original author: Mark Modoski


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A New Way to Measure Bullet Ballistics

LabRadar is an easy-to-use, but (slightly) finicky, chronograph

LabRadar is a powerful tool for the technically minded shooter who wants to amass lots of good ballistic data with minimal fuss.
Original author: John B. Snow


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This Happened To Me: Hog Wild

Two hunters survive a wild hog stampede

This Happened to Me has been a fixture of Outdoor Life since it first appeared in 1940.
Original author: chillman


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10 Next-Level Ruffed Grouse Hunting Tips

Experts from Park Falls, Wisconsin—the Ruffed Grouse Capital of the World—share their secrets for the great North Woods game bird

Guides and other experts from Wisconsin's Ruffed Grouse Capital of the World offer advice on where, when, and how to gain an edge on hunting one of North America's most…
Original author: Paul Nicolaus


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