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Knives are great Christmas gifts for hunters, but don’t fall for looks over function when making out your wish list.

It's not an exact science, but figure on shooting several boxes of ammo and running through dozens of cleaning patches to break in a new rifle barrel.

Fourteen-year-old Paslie Werth, of Cimarron, Kan., shot a massive deer on Sept. 6—a 42-point whitetail buck tallying a gross green score of 282 6/8 inches—while rifle hunting on family property with her father.

Yamaha Motor Corp., USA, has announced that the Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative has awarded more than $100,000 in funds and equipment to nine grant applicants in the third quarter of 2016. The Yamaha Outdoor Access Initiative supports off-highway (OHV) riders, as well as those who rely on access to land for camping, hunting, fishing and more.

Oregon’s Gov. Kate Brown signed two new laws to help curb poaching in the state.

Winchester has announced its new Xtended Range Bismuth shotshells—and it's not just a waterfowl load. It works perfectly as a turkey load, and even as an upland bird load in those areas where the use of lead shot is prohibited.

The new Trijicon Ventus rangefinder provides hunters with previously unattainable data about their environments to improve long-range accuracy, featuring a Doppler LIDAR engine that can measure headwind, tailwind, crosswind and vertical wind components at six different distances.

In a scene that could have leapt from the pages of a Western, Texas native Bill Williams successfully defended himself and his wife from an intruding black bear.