Hunting and Fishing News Blog Articles

The lever-action takes a back seat to modern, extreme range, precision rifles, but it’s still one of the coolest, most effective whitetail hunting rifles in the woods. (Ron Spomer/) Most hunters inherit or buy a rifle and learn to love it. A few are dissatisfied and search and search for the perfect model. A few churn through gun after gun, enjoyin

Evolution is a slow process. We tend to believe that the trout swimming in our rivers now are smarter than the ones that were swimming there 25 or even 100 years ago, but the truth is they’ll eat the same flies they did back then. Thanks to modern synthetic materials and flashy new patterns, a lot of the old stuff has lost its rightful place in fly

Deer Scouting With A Trail Camera Deer Scouting with Trail Cameras is a mixed bag. Sometimes the pictures are clear and have deer or other wild animals in them. Sometimes the images are blurry and the deer, etc. in the unclear pictures look awful. Other times something bumps your camera and changes the area where you are taking pictures. But, all i

Don’t give up on silent gobblers. (USFWS/) If there is something in hunting that compares to spring turkey gobbles ringing through the hardwoods at sunrise, I haven’t found it. No matter how many mornings I spend with my back against a tree, there’s always that anticipation of hearing the first tom sound off—it gets my heart racing uncontrollably.

A new Backcountry Conservation Area is being proposed near Lewistown, Montana. (Charlie Bulla, via TRCP/) Over the past month, Outdoor Life’s hunting editor Andrew McKean has had two opportunities to interview Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt. The first interview was a wide-ranging conversation about topics as varied as CWD funding, action

In some areas, nearly half of Colorado deer and elk hunters reported seeing mountain lions or tracks while they hunted last year. One CPW supervisor told me an outfitter with 18 camps said that every camp reported seeing lions or lion tracks. When hunters are seeing mountain lions, there are way, way too many lions. The problem is that it is not po

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