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Senator Jon Tester (left) has introduced a bill to block William Perry Pendley from resuming his post at the Bureau of Land Management. (Bureau of Land Management/) Montana U.S. Senator Jon Tester (Dem.) yesterday introduced legislation that ratchets up the stakes against William Perry Pendley, the embattled defacto head of the federal agency that

A trained dachshund helped find this Georgia swamp buck. (@Jaegertracks/) You know you hit that buck. You found blood and hair. You just can’t find the deer. You recall somebody—­somewhere—said with absolute confidence what wounded deer do. Was it Uncle Bill at deer camp or the farmer who gave you permission? Regardless, they said they knew exactly

Sportsmen’s and women's issues will help frame what the Nov. 3 election is all about. (Lee Thomas Kjos / The Raw Spirit/) “I guess you’d call me a recovering Republican.” That’s how Nick Siebrasse, a retired UPS driver from Havre, Montana, describes his political philosophy. Siebrasse commits to just enough construction work—light residential remod

It’s worth investing in the right tools to clean your rifle, both to get the best results and to protect your barrel and receiver from inadvertent damage. (Bill Buckley/) I get to shoot a lot of guns for my job. That’s the fun part. I also end up needing to clean a lot of guns. That’s when the fun stops. Fortunately, I’ve fine-tuned my cleaning pro

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Pennsylvania started reintroducing elk in the early 1900s. (Hal Korber/Hunt Wild PA/) When most hunters think of elk hunting, they envision snow-capped mountain peaks with dark fir forests, alpine meadows gracing the high country, and golden aspens shimmering in the foothills. But there’s another option that’s steadily becoming available. Picture s

Freezer burnt meat requires plenty of trimming with a sharp, thin fillet knife. (JACK HENNESSY/) I’ll come out and say it: Understanding freezer burn and how to best avoid it, as well as knowing how to deal with it, is the single-most important factor when it comes to enjoying what you put on the plate. There, the gauntlet has been thrown. Yes, a g

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Sandhill cranes in formation over New Mexico. (Donald M Jones/) “Put that damned thing away!” Evan Stabolitis hisses in the dark. He’s sitting on a lawn chair somewhere to my left in the portable blind he and his half dozen guides constructed on the edge of a picked Oklahoma cotton field. Then, for emphasis, “You wanna get us all busted?” He sounds

A wood duck and ringneck duck on a northern Minnesota rice lake. (Alex Robinson/) All diehard duck hunters have their favorite species, and they’ll usually rank them something like this: greenheads, canvasbacks, and pintails. But living and hunting in the northern half of the Mississippi Flyway, my favorite waterfowl species is the odd and gorgeous

Nic Kytlica zeros a Savage rifle during a longrange rifle shooting camp in Utah. (Joe Genzel/) Precision rifle matches have taken off across the U.S. But if you’re a novice rifleshooter or a Midwestern deer hunter, who has never taken a shot beyond 150 yards, getting into the precision game can seem a daunting endeavor. And even if you are an exper

Exploding whitetail herds in suburban Virginia have created a different kind of deer season. And for a pair of diehard local bowhunters, nothing—not urban sprawl or even a pandemic—can keep them out of the woods (Greg Kahn/) Deer hunting year-round is a pipe dream in most places. No matter how hard you hunt or how many states you hit, you have to h

Most duck hunters head to the patterning board after buying a new shotgun to see how their gun shoots and identify where the shotshell pellets are striking paper. You might think the results are indicative of where that payload will hit greenheads and honkers come fall. But pattering your autoloader at the range is only the beginning. It tells you

The historic public hunting grounds of western Wyoming. (Michael Parente/) I glass the frigid canyon before me, looking for mule deer on a late October afternoon. I’m hoping to spot an old buck traveling from his high National Forest summer basin to wintering grounds somewhere out there. This is western Wyoming, and “out there” means the general di

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