“how to hunt”

The rifle was magnificently ugly. So ugly, in fact, that it was beautiful. Here’s how to (and why you should) build your own.

Curious about what loads to buy for hunting at greater distances? Here are a few of our top choices for the task.

Temperature, snow, dust, ice and mud can all adversely affect rifles. Here are five tips to help you keep your hunting rig functioning properly during a hardcore hunt in tough conditions.

Here are some simple but significant “unwritten” rules you should always follow when hunting public land.

Turkey hunting can be fun and sometimes seem easy when any ol’ tom answers the weakest yelps. When toms clam up—that’s when things get difficult. It’s at times like these a turkey hunter needs at least one of these six tips up his sleeve.

Keeping a handwritten journal and reading through old field notes is a great way to preserve hunting memories and helps in planning exciting future adventures. Here are a few ideas and inspiration for creating your own.

In the rugged mountains of West Texas—home to desert bighorns and introduced aoudad—sheep hunters can strike it big.

In the last 10 years, ammunition manufacturers have delivered newly designed cartridges that are more consistent, more efficient and more precise than ever before. Will the century-plus-old .30-06 Springfield have to gracefully hand the “most popular” position to a new leader?

Three generations of the Gouger family have gathered every fall to hunt deer on a 128-acre farm in northwestern New Jersey since the 1950s. None of them has ever called it a “deer camp.” The place is just “the cabin.” But every hunter of the farm is aware the hunt endures today in the face of encroaching development.