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Eastmans’ family friend and trophy tour pioneer Roger Selner measured more big game trophies in his lifetime than any Boone & Crockett scorer. He traveled the country with his elk and deer tours for over 30 years covering one million miles. Known as the “trophy whisperer” and Uncle Rog to those who knew him best, Roger Selner left us in December 20

The new 6.8 Western is being loaded by Browning and Winchester and is being touted as the ultimate big-game hunting cartridge. (John Whipple/) If you want to introduce a successful new big-game cartridge these days, it’s got to be the fastest, hottest, hardest-hitting, new load ever created, right? Well, actually, no. Browning and Winchester’s new

Testing the SX4 on the pattern board. (Joe Genzel/) Duck hunters require the most out of their shotguns. We hunt in the toughest and in the soggiest, swampiest places. I’ve seen what a season of hard hunting can do to a brand-new gun, so I wanted an autoloader that I wouldn’t have to worry about functioning properly no matter how harsh the environm

Doug Laird’s antlered doe grossed 200 4/8 inches. (Doug Laird/) Like albino deer, melanistic whitetails, and the ever-elusive world-record, antlered does are among the rarities that hunters dream of, but generally never see. And if they do, most don’t even realize it. This is the stuff of legends, really, and there are more that biologists who don’

If you can't get access to the field geese are feeding in, you must get under them. (Drew Palmer/Miler North Outdoors/) Finding the X—the field big geese are feeding in—is easy; getting access to hunt it is not. In the last decade, it’s become increasingly difficult to hunt the agriculture fields waterfowl want to be in. Landowners have become stin

January and February are my two favorite months to be in the public hardwood bottoms along the Illinois River. I spent my youth duck and goose hunting with dad on the banks of this historic waterfowl flyway. But the birds don’t come here in the numbers that they once did, and with those days long behind us, and a new squirrel dog by my side, I’m ch

The Hill Gould buck was taken in 1911 and scored 259 inches by Boone & Crockett (Bass Pro/) Louie Cataldo grew up in a family of hunters in the remote Grand Lake Stream area of northern Maine, where he would eventually become a registered guide, leading hunters in search of the region’s legendary big-woods whitetails. The bucks were celebrated in n

  Go black bear hunting with a father and son team. Eastmans’ subscriber Johnny Hamilton is helping his son Travis hunt for his first trophy bear. There’s no shortage of bears on this web episode of Eastmans’ Hunting TV. The pair gets more than they bargain for when they find four bears in one drainage and one boar appears at only 10 yards away!  

Ward off pesky skeeters with these handy repellents. (Pexels/) Mosquitoes are everywhere. You’ll find them at the equator, at the earth’s temperate zones, and even at the Arctic pestering the caribou, along with whoever and whatever is hunting them. Mosquitoes can ruin an evening outdoors or even an entire camping trip. And mosquito bites can do mo

From left: The Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 with the matte blue BE.S.T. finish; an SBE3 with a camo finish, and a Remington 870 Special Purpose Marine Magnum pump with a nickel-plated finish on the barrel and receiver. (Natalie Krebs/) My shotgun slid sideways along the mesh wire fence that held the blind together. It was a slow morning, and the Ben

Don’t look now, but spring turkey seasons will kick off in just a few weeks. Here’s our annual preview of what to expect. (Brian Lovett/) After enduring the COVID-19 pandemic this last calendar year, we need something to look forward to. Enter turkey season. With the promise of brilliant spring dawns and thunder in the timber, who could feel downtr

Load up your truck with the essentials, and keep them safe, in storage bins. (Amazon/) Think you have a lot of stuff? You do. The average home in the United States is filled to the brim with things—about 300,000 items, according to experts. And ten percent of Americans keep even more stuff in rented storage units. It probably won’t surprise you to

The 2021 crossbow lineup is packed with innovations. (Outdoor Life/) COVID-19 crippled lots of things last year, but it didn’t stop crossbow manufacturers from engineering a litany of new horizontal tack drivers. The fascinating world of crossbows continues to evolve as bows are designed to hit radar-busting speeds and produce jaw-dropping accuracy

Compound manufacturers are offering a big 2021 lineup for bowhunters. (Outdoor Life /) I’m disappointed that I won’t be sending carbon down the shooting lanes at the Archery Trade Show this year. Like most things, the annual ATA show was canceled due to Covid-19. This January will mark the first in the last 12 years that I haven’t wrapped my hand a

Umbrella rigs are excellent baits in colder water. (Jeff Gustafson/) As an angler who grew up on the shores of Lake of the Woods in Ontario, I get a kick out of hearing some of my fellow Bassmaster Elite Series anglers say, “It’s so cold out”...when the temperatures dip into the 40s. We have ice covering our lakes for half the year up here in my pa