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Despite the potential for roller-coaster October weather, a weeklong pronghorn camp in central Wyoming can easily turn into an annual adventure with a draw that rivals whitetail camps back East—especially if you’ve got the right equipment.

Does the outdoor enthusiast in your life have a special occasion coming up? A Wild Game Sampler gourmet food gift from Burger’s Smokehouse could be just the ticket.

Some cuts of game meat can seem especially difficult to make tender. Whether through aging or proper cooking technique, these tips will ensure the cuts from your next head of game are every bit the trophy the rest of the hunt represents.

In the adventurous world of hunting, there are many great stories and books to make us all gasp, laugh, cry and more. If, as a hunter, you are a reader, odds are your life has been influenced by some of them. If you haven’t yet read enough of them, find them, read them, then pass them on to an aspiring hunter.

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.

This sweet and tangy meatball recipe with pineapple can be served with rice as a main course, or a cocktail skewer as an appetizer.

A proper tent camp is an experience many hunters today know little about—and that’s a shame, because it can be just the ticket to recharge one’s batteries. Take advice from a graybeard who’s done it for years: A few amenities can make all the difference.

Adding the ingredients of a bacon cheeseburger into the next meatloaf you make for hunting camp is sure to turn heads. Pickles, bacon, cheese and mustard all help to keep the loaf moist and add flavor, while a ketchup and sugar topping complete this crowd-pleasing recipe.

Before fall big-game seasons begin, it’s important to build confidence in your rifle, ammo and optics—and how you perform with them in hand. To do so, it pays to put in practical range time, shooting not only from field positions but also building skill at quick, accurate follow-up shots.