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Here are four knives and tools that can get the job done on any backcountry hunt.

Hunts do not always go as planned, as a lifetime outdoors reveals a list of epic failures.

One of the things I do around the Wyoming homestead besides shooting guns and critters is play farmer. It gives me pleasure to tend the land, and it enhances the habitat for the wild creatures that share this place with me. Too be sure, I am not—and I make no pretense of being—a real farmer. I simply like throwing good money after bad.

I’ve just finished a visit with an old friend. Alan Roberts and I were once neighbors, and because we share a passion about guns and hunting, we have remained friends for more than 25 years.

In spite of ‘Towsley’s Luck,’ do-it-yourself hunts sometimes do work out.

With more states opening archery seasons to crossbows, thousands of hunters are taking them afield for the first time. But without dad and grandpa there to give advice gleaned over generations—today’s crossbows are unlike any other hunting tool and are far more advanced than those of just a decade ago—techniques and tricks must be developed via experience. So instead of learning the hard way, simply get it here now.

A hunt across the pond reveals age-old traditions still practiced today in the Scottish Highlands.