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For decades, deer hunters have used deer urine and other scent-based products to lure bucks into range for a shot. Generations of hunters have reached into their coat pockets, pulled out small bottles of often foul-smelling fluid and dribbled it on the ground and vegetation. Sometimes without spilling it on themselves, sometimes not.

Savage Arms has announced that it will be offering four bolt-action, long-range, chassis precision rifles for 2017. Two calibers will be available in short-action and two calibers will be available in long-action.

Hunting’s post-kill rituals aren’t spontaneous gestures like high-fives or war-whoops, but perhaps that’s where they began.

Get serious about DIY—start handloading.

Mechanical beauty is more than skin deep. And the Merkel 40E has just that kind of beauty.

With more and more states legalizing the common sense practice of hunting with suppressors to protect our hearing, more hunters than ever will take their rifles afield this year with new devices attached to their muzzles.

We’ve all been there. Opening day. The sun is shining, birds are calling and our over-eager dogs are racing through the cover, thicket to thicket, horizon to horizon, sucking air, searching for scent. They point. They flush. They fetch. They collapse. It’s not even noon and they act as if they’re on their last legs because—they are.

Under President Obama, the BATFE seeks to ban commonplace AR-15 rifle ammunition used for hunting, target shooting and self-defense.

If you think archery is a small niche, take a trip to the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg, Pa., where bow hunting may just be the biggest attraction.