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“What are you doing here then?” “I hunt griz…” “Griz?” “Grizzly bears, pilgrim!  I collect the claws.”   This direct quote from the popular movie Jeremiah Johnson was supposed to take place in the 1800s. Back then you could hunt grizzly bears and collect the claws if you wanted to. But in the 21st century, that’s a bit of a no-no. The Outdoor News

The elk hunting in Wyoming continues to be very solid. The 2018 and 2019 seasons posted solid elk hunting results with about average hunter success while not setting any records, the hunts were average nearly state wide. The late and record setting cold spring did put a bit of a damper on our antler growth this past year. Many units, while seeing s

CWD is popping up in the Jackson elk herd near Yellowstone National Park. (USFWS/) For more than 100 years, wildlife authorities have tried to shore up the elk population close to Yellowstone National Park with supplemental feeding at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, Wyoming. But the steady creep of Chronic Wasting Disease has forced the refug

A whitetail buck foraging for acorns. (EEI_Tony via Deposit Photos/) It was dead calm and pitch black at midnight when I stepped outside my deer camp to cool off a bit from the blasting heat of the overstuffed wood stove. Warm is good, hot is not. Sleep never comes easily for me during deer season anyway, but when the stove’s blower cranks ceaseles

An Ohio coyote slides through standing soybeans. (Tom Uhlman/ALAMY/) From his home in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Geoff Nemnich can drive west to Wyoming’s wide-open prairies and badlands in pursuit of coyotes. Or he can turn east and hunt his way down the irrigated farmland of the Platte River. The tactics he deploys in the tighter cover of the Midwest

Hunters and a dog on on the New England coastline. (Bill Buckley/) Weather happens fast on New England’s coast in winter. What starts as a subtle shift in wind direction, a gathering chop on the vast Atlantic Ocean, can soon build into a raging nor’easter. It can happen in a matter of hours. Running the surf in these conditions is out of the questi

The question on everyone’s mind this time of year is what’s new from SHOT Show 2020? The Outdoor Life staff was on location and attended multiple pre-show range days and, of course, the show itself. After walking countless miles up and down exhibitor-packed aisles, we narrowed down a list of new, notable handguns we think will be of interest to you

The author with a heavy lake trout from Lake Granby in Colorado. (Tim Romano/) When I looked down the hole, I was shocked. There was the gravelly bottom of Lake Granby barely 3 feet below the bottom edge of the ice. As if I wasn’t skeptical enough about targeting lake trout in such shallow water, veteran Colorado guide Bernie Keefe didn’t make me f

Some say the perfect survival knife is the one you’re carrying. This may be true, but it’s also true that we do our best work when we have the right tools. In the unpredictable realm of survival, how can we know which knife we will need when our future remains uncertain? As we rundown the 10 most popular groups of survival knives, decide which is b

  That’s right, $123,241 dollars funded by sportsmen to be precise. The other 250K (roughly) for the research/project was Federally funded. Over the course of several months IDFG (Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game) tested methods for decreasing elk depredation on crop lands across southern Idaho. During this time, IDFG staff/employees shot 206 elk, ofte

Ice fishing is an addicting activity, providing you have the clothes and gear to help you spend long windows of time on a frozen lake. (Simon Matzinger/) Even in the warmth of a heated hut, ice fishing can still be an uncomfortable pursuit. Temperatures cold enough to lay down ten inches of boilerplate on a lake surface will quickly take their toll

Widely distributed throughout the ice belt, bluegills remain active and catchable all winter. (Dr. Jason A. Halfen/) Widely distributed across the ice belt, bluegills are among the most popular targets for hardwater anglers. Whether your adventures take you to the frozen surfaces of natural lakes, ice-capped river backwaters, or even crunchy farm p

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 11:05:24 AM America/Chicago Hunting knives are a great and perfect accessory for any hunter or even the general user, and with many resources online, it makes it even easier to make a well-informed choice. The options are plenty meaning there really is no wrong choice, especially when personal preference comes to play. Cho

BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO SHOOTING CLAYS Saturday, January 18, 2020 1:02:07 PM America/Chicago One of the most fun activities you can do that will improve your shooting skills is shoot clay pigeons. There are three main types of clay shoots: trap, skeet, and sporting clays. Each has different rules and directions that the clays are launched. The end goal

Last year at SHOT Show, we noticed bolt-action hunting rifle market trending toward ultra-light mountain rigs. That shift continues this year with substantial interest and investment in ultra-light backcountry rifles, with some long-range options and modularity functionality in the mix. These are the new hunting rifles we sniffed out, many of which