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How to Age a Whitetail

How can you tell the difference between a 2½-year-old buck and a mature 5½-year-old deer in those few tense seconds before you shoot or don’t shoot? Start by familiarizing yourself with the ever-changing features of the whitetail buck.

What Pressured Bucks Do

GPS tracking collars are revealing how bucks change their patterns when the hunting season starts.

How Turkey Hunters Screw Up Opening Day

Here’s why most people blow it on opening day and how you can avoid those mistakes.

Review: Baikal MP 153 Shotgun

Low-tech, roughly finished and extremely reliable, the MP 153 is a solid shotgun with an affordable price tag for today's hunters.

8 Biggest Preseason Blunders

This fall promises to be the best hunting season of your life—but only if you properly prepare. Don't commit these common mistakes.

Enchanted Evening

Some gifts from elk country can’t be earned, only absorbed.

Summer Scouting for Big Whitetails

Field Editor Frank Miniter offers a few tips for scouting that big buck during the summer months.

6 Pre-Season Spring Turkey Tips

Most of us have done it: We wake up and head into the turkey woods before daylight, not knowing where, when, or even if there is a turkey within 10 miles, much less a turkey within an acceptable range to make a move. And, yes, sometimes you can make it work. But if you want to better your odds, a few extra preseason hours spent in the woods can make a huge difference.

Tagging the Bucks of Summer

Don’t let the heat cool your drive. Right now may be your best chance at a big buck all year.

How to Put the Sneak on Elk and Elk Hunters

If you think you’ll have elk country to yourself, think again. It’s as crowded as ever. To be successful these days, you have to get downright diabolical. Here’s how to do it.

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