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How to Use Topo Maps to Find Public-Land Gobblers

Mapping routes to hunting spots can be accomplished in the palm of your hand with modern cell phones. However, what most of those images don’t show—topographic lines—may prove to be the most useful information at your disposal.

Know-How: Find Public Land Hotspots

Public land can offer some of the best hunting, but you wouldn’t know it without doing some research. Look for these four features to find your new hotspot.

Know-How: Throw Coyotes a Change-Up

Coyotes learn quickly to avoid your calls when they hear the same ones from the same places over and over. Follow these tips to change the results.

Bird Hunting for Big Game

Pursuit of any number of Western bird species just may lead to the buck or bull of your dreams.

Know-How: Find Your Superstand

The word “superstand” refers to a rare stand location that consistently produces bucks regardless of the season or conditions. Most times hunters luck into them. But you can find your own superstand, or even make one, if you know what to look for.

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.

Know-How: Eastern Ways for Coyotes Anywhere

Unlike in the West, hunting Eastern coyotes means thick woods and heavy cover. Use these techniques and tips to meet those challenges head-on in any region.

The Rut Hunter’s Trifecta

Maybe you have a sure-thing rut stand, a place of your own where pleasant memories of big bucks tagged play in your head like a deer-hunting show marathon. Good for you. Now go away; this is for the rest of us who must constantly scout, look for new properties and put in the time for our dream bucks.

Know-How: On-the-Fly Ducks

Not everyone has time to scout out killer locations prior to a weekend hunt.

Know-How: Ducks in Crowded Places

Duck hunting in crowded places is as much about out-maneuvering people as it is about ducks. Let Field Editor Frank Miniter explain.

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