Hunting and Fishing News & Blog Articles

It’s that time of year again, time for Montana elk and deer applications again. The deadline has been March 15th for many years until this year. It will be bumped back two weeks to April 1st. The good thing is that the results will be available two weeks after the deadline! No holding on to your money for weeks and weeks anymore. This is a win-win

Nate Olsen with the potential new Wisconsin state record non-typical whitetail. (Nate Olsen/) “I think that’s the biggest f—king deer I’ve ever seen in my life,” is the first thing Nate Olsen’s buddy blurted out. Crass, maybe, but he had to say something because Olsen, a 33-year-old Wisconsin deer hunter, had lost the ability to speak. He could onl

Here stands the old warrior with its two newest competitors in the rather small .27-caliber world. Both new rounds exceed the ballistics of the old one, but do it in different ways. The .277 Fury works with much higher chamber pressures to get high velocity. The .27 Nosler works with a larger powder reservoir. (Ron Spomer/) After years of the 6.5mm

In this hunting rifle review Todd Helms pulls the Alpine Hunter rifle out of the box and is smacking steel at 1000 yards with only seven shots! The Alpine Hunter built by Snowy Mountain Rifles is a premium rifle with plenty of options to upgrade. The Alpine Hunter is guaranteed to shoot at 1/2 MOA or better! The rifle in this review features a Proo

Your trusty pocket knife can do a lot more than open Amazon packages. Knives are an indispensable part of any outdoor survival kit. When used to their full potential, knives can perform some amazing tasks. In terms of surviving the wild, simple wood carving may seem like busy work, frivolous, or even worthless. However, that shaggy “fuzz stick” isn

Garmin Xero A1i Auto-Ranging Digital Bow Sight Gone is the problem of correctly judging yardage when that big buck steps out during bow season. Enter the Garmin Xero A1 Auto-ranging Digital Bow Sight. An LED bow sight with built-in rangefinding capability. Take the guesswork out of targeting game this year with the Garmin Xero A1 Auto-ranging Digit

Wyoming lawmakers are considering the purchase of 1 million acres to expand public hunting access. (USFWS/) Wyoming is known as an outdoor paradise because it has plenty of public land to roam. Lawmakers there are looking to continue that trend with the potential purchase of 1 million acres in the southern part of the state. Meanwhile, just north i

If your gun dog has drive, it’s more likely to become an accomplished shed hunter. (Tony J. Peterson/) The popularity of shed antler dogs has gone from zero to ludicrous in the last decade. But if you go by the success of a social media shed hunt, you’ll probably leave the woods sorely disappointed. Shed dogs are growing in popularity. And all thos

Follow These Tips To Have More Shed Hunting Success! I’ll never forget the sight. More of an excuse to get my kids out of the house than anything, our “shed hunting” trip didn’t last long. But… it didn’t need to either. Barely peeking out of a fresh crust of snow, two tiny tines were reaching out toward the sky. I hollered loudly for my dad and son

Here’s how a whitetail deer eye works! This is the short story of deer vision. To understand how a deer sees you need to dissect a whitetail’s eyeball, and that’s just what we are going to do. I located an organ donor at my deer processor and am dissected an eye that we’ve all seen thousands of times. However, I’m guessing that you have never seen

Successful caribou hunters return from the uplands to their guide’s boat. (Luke Renard/) The musk ox looks like he might have been chiseled out of the veined rock of this fjord. The only movement is his coat, a tangle of tawny dreadlocks that ripples and waves in the stiff wind. Then his head slowly pans, following the passage of our little boat th

A new technology allows for faster identification of CWD. (USFWS/) Time is the single most important factor to mitigating the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer herds. The current testing process can take weeks, which could allow for the disease to spread as wildlife managers and hunters await results. But a new, faster process is bein

Here’s 5 Common Turkey Hunting Mistakes That We Make Wild turkey gobblers can be great at outsmarting us. Turkey hunters often give gobblers too much credit in the smarts department. Usually, when a turkey eludes us, we did something that was not so smart and gave him the advantage. Here are five common turkey hunting mistakes you should avoid maki

The author on a solo Dall Sheep hunt in Alaska. There's no great film from this hunt, just good memories. (Tyler Freel/) Most of us get a kick out of reading, hearing, or watching accounts of other hunters’ experiences and stories. Hunting media is entertaining, but the source of that entertainment is a connection to the things that stir our own he

Critical survival gear all ready for action. (Jeff Wilson/) “Don’t run to your death” is a well-known Navy SEAL saying that was meant for the battlefield, but it works pretty well in the backcountry too. The idea here, of course, is that taking things slowly and methodically will keep you out of trouble—and keep you alive. It’s true: Most bad situa