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This delectable muscle lies wide, long and flat on the front shoulder, leading many hunters who butcher their own game to simply grind it for burger or sausage. That’s a mistake.

Attend a field-to-table event and you’ll never again need to rely on a butcher or chef to render your game into table fare.

Here’s how to prevent a firearm famine from bleeding your soul dry of the sweet scent of gun oil.

In our zeal to teach hunter-recruits marksmanship and fieldcraft we must not forget to arm them with the knowledge of everything American hunters have done to conserve our natural resources. A well-armed hunter, after all, is our best advertisement.

Coyotes, like other predators, cannot resist a ringside seat to a good fight. So create the sounds of your own “fight club.” Yips, growls, barks—they all may work to lure a member of a local coyote family bickering among itself.

The CZ 600 Trail proved to be a handy rifle that can down game in hard-to-find places, all without alerting everything with fur that you have moved into the woods. Its lighter chamberings make it easy for recoil-shy shooters to field and makes it ideal for target work, too.

The Howa Carbon Elevate has brought bench-gun accuracy and utility to the hunting world without resorting to a package that can’t practically be hauled afield.