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New shooters don't need the newest, most technologically advanced gear to be successful in the field. It's practice, not product, that makes perfect.

Just about every case shape imaginable has been modified to hold both 7mm and .30-caliber bullets, but it was gunwriter Layne Simpson who saw a gap in the lineup: there was no 7mm cartridge based on a full-length .375 H&H case. In 1979, Simpson took the excellent 8mm Remington Magnum and necked it down to hold 7mm bullets, giving his wildcat the name “Shooting Times Westerner.”

The USFWS praises shooters’ contributions during National Shooting Sports Month.

Among all the duck-hunting haunts up and down the Mississippi Flyway, a spot in the middle of a water-filled woods just south of Tunica, Miss., between the Mississippi and Coldwater rivers provides wingshooters with a glimpse of Southern tradition. This is Beaver Dam Lake, made famous not only by its fabulous fowling but by one of the South’s prominent sporting scribes, Nash Buckingham.

The perils of elk hunting can sometimes be the least expected—and the best means to a practical joke.

Traditional bowhunting has its advantages and disadvantages, but one thing is certain: It will make you a better hunter and woodsman. Up for the challenge? Here’s how to get started.

Scott Olmsted travels to Manitoba for Canada geese, mainly because every waterfowler worth his salty waders says you must experience such a hunt at least once.