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First Light has debuted a new proprietary camo line called Specter, designed specifically for avid whitetail hunters.

Did you know there are 13.7 million hunters in the United States alone, according the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation? Did you know that in 2015, 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty (13.5 percent of the U.S. population), and 42.2 million Americans lived in food-insecure households? The NRA’s solution? Start an initiative to assist in providing food to the needy by capitalizing on the millions of active hunters we have here in the United States.

It was around 9 a.m., and a dozen or so birds had decided that they’d make a close enough pass at our decoy spread to elicit a volley. I’d loosed two shells when my concentration was broken by something thumping down into the reeds beside me.

More is learned about what keeps hunters in the field every year thanks in part to license-sales data.

Illegal marijuana ‘grows’ are sprouting up on public wildlands.

True story: Your tax money does so much good for wildlife and our sports that it is impossible to quantify in one magazine article.

Hunting is a way of life. And it’s increasingly being uprooted and replaced with meaningless frivolities that don’t instill the necessary values, skills and experiences that keep our culture grounded in reality.

Acknowledging youth hunter recruitment efforts may not necessarily pay dividends, many states now focus additional effort on the 27- to 40-year-old adults, people who have the time, money and resources to hunt and take their kids hunting.

Not just an after-school activity, YHEC is a hunter’s training camp.