Hunting and Fishing News & Blog Articles

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

A Spuhr mount on the author's 6mm Creed comp rifle. (Bill Buckley/) Unlike traditional scope rings, which attach independently to the tube of a riflescope, a unimount creates a bridge between the rings that increases the rigidity and reliability of one of the most failure-prone elements on a long gun. There are other benefits to these systems as we

When Wisconsin National Wild Turkey Federation volunteer Charlie Burke was given the green light to stage a turkey call-carving contest to add more pizzazz to the 1993 NWTF national convention, it wasn’t an instant success. That first effort consisted of one division for carvers, and drew 19 callmakers. Each year since, custom-crafted calls worth t

Hunting involves rain, snow, and dirt! Is your hunting ammo up to the job? In this hunting gear review, Todd Helms puts the new Hornady Outfitter Ammo to the test on a cold Wyoming day. See how this weatherproof ammo performs after landing in the snow. Be sure to subscribe to our channel for more hunting gear review videos. Tap the bell to get noti

The All-New 2020 PSE NOCK ON EVO NTN 33 Bow Featuring John Dudley In the span of the 50 years since Pete Shepley began Precision Shooting Equipment, Shepley’s company PSE Archery has been responsible for more breakthrough innovations in modern compound bows and archery equipment than any other single manufacturer in the archery and bowhunting indus

Illustration of a hunter aiming a rifle at a deer in the snow. (Chris Malbon/) How to Bag the Biggest Buck of Your Life, by Larry Benoit, was a seminal tome for a generation of deer hunters. Originally published in 1974, the book chronicled the hunting strategies and tactics of a hardcore North Woods deer tracker. And just like its title, the conte

Feb 11, 2020 10:32:07 AM If you are a new bow hunter and you walk into a bow shop or the bow section at a sporting goods store, the variety of bows on the wall can be intimidating. Usually, a shop has bows of all styles, sizes, colors, feature and part sets. So where do you start? What Is The Best Beginner Bow & Archery Style? When you’re just

Releasing a brown trout. (Alex Robinson/) My favorite place on Earth is up a rutted dirt road that strings along a creek in southwest Colorado. Call it the Sulfur. The creek flows through a wooded canyon, and before winter struck this year, it was running low and clear and showing its bones. Blowdown spruce sieved the current, and the willows on th