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Plus: ATF Seizes Firearms From 4,170 Buyers Who Failed Background Checks

Bills seeking to ensure law-abiding concealed carry owners could travel across state lines with their legally purchased handguns without fear of facing episodically…

Original author: John Haughey

Open Country

Immediately after the monument designation, land prices went up tenfold. Farms and ranches were sold, subdivisions created, winter habitat lost. That trend continued…

Original author: Aram von Benedikt

The .224 Valkyrie is essentially the 6.8 SPC necked down for .224 bullets, meaning it will feed through AR-15 sized rifles, but generates a lot more velocity than a…

Original author: John B. Snow

10 gift ideas for the shooter on your list

What do you get the shooter who already has it all? Well, we’ve got ten Christmas gift ideas for you…

Original author: John B. Snow

Open Country

Since some of my family’s fondest memories include spring-break camping in the Cedar Mesa, Utah, I’ve been carefully tracking President Trump’s move to reduce Bears Ears…

Original author: Ben Long

Get the most out of your safe with these useful accessories

To create my ultimate gun safe, I started with the Cabela's Outfitter 86 series, and augmented it with a few upgrades. Here's how to do the same to yours.

Original author: John B. Snow

Double jeopardy on the ice for a group of duck hunters

This Happened to Me has been a fixture of Outdoor Life since it first appeared in 1940…

Original author: chillman

Getting the most from your black gun requires extra finesse behind the trigger

ARs violate some of the basic precepts of rifle accuracy, and if you're not aware of an AR's pitfalls, you'll end up with more Hail Mary's than Hell Yeahs!

Original author: John B. Snow

Open Country

Outdoor Life talks with Secretary Ryan Zinke on the monument decision

Monday, when President Donald Trump announces that he is reducing the acreage of four national monuments created under the Obama and Clinton administrations,…

Original author: Andrew McKean

Catching largemouth on the world's most famous bass lake

We were well on our way to a 100-fish day. Here's what we learned from the fishing guides who run clients on the legendary Lake El Salto in Mexico/.

Original author: Gerry Bethge

Giving a kid a gun for Christmas is shocking to some, normal for the rest of us

When we planned to give our son Jack, then 10, a shotgun for Christmas, it made headlines in the Wall Street Journal. I don't know about where you're from, but around…

Original author: Joe Arterburn

Tips and tactics for waterfowling's largest target species

Everything about tundra swans and swan hunting is outsized, from the birds' anatomy and their air speed to a hunter's reaction when they hoist this snow-white trophy…

Original author: Andrew McKean

In December, bluefins smash topwater baits, and you can even see Manhattan from where you're fishing

Twas the day before Christmas—literally. We had to break through skim ice to get out of our slip in Jamaica Bay, N.Y., but we were determined to get one more crack at…

Original author: John McMurray

Dig into the guts of a goose call to decide which one is best for you

Short reed, long reed, or flute? Not sure which goose call to use this season? We've got you covered.

Original author: chillman

Hunt bitter cold mornings for the best—and least disruptive—shots at food-oriented does

The weather is brutal, food is scarce, and the whitetails are skittish after running a multi-month guantlet of zipping arrows and whistling bullets. Here's a plan that…

Original author: Tony Hansen, Andrew McKean

When winter conditions are at their worst, duck and deer hunters know the action can be red-hot.

These hunters don't just endure harsh late-season conditions, but intentionally seek out the cold, the snow, the ice, and the wind. Why? Because they are confident that…

Original author: Gerry Bethge

Open Country

Stream access is a hot-button issue across the United States, but anglers in Utah are taking good cheer from a state Supreme Court ruling that guarantees public access…

Original author: Ben Long

Open Country

It’s good to carve out one day of the year to reflect on the good things, to remind ourselves of the value and power of gratitude. To remember that we have it pretty…

Original author: Ben Long

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Original author: Alex Robinson

Want to find the right stuff under the tree this year? Ask wisely.

Make a list. Check it twice. And load it up with these deer hunting gift ideas.

Original author: Tony Hansen, Andrew McKean