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Here are five ways to quickly and confidently judge a buck’s real proportions.

Theodore Roosevelt is arguably the most recognized outdoorsman to lead the United States, but he wasn’t always a hunter. Come along on a New Yorker’s first Western hunting venture.

If you could build a rifle exclusively for the backcountry, which components would you choose? Combining experience afield with the latest in rifle designs and optics technology, we set out to build the perfect backcountry rifle.

The time of the .30-06 has come and gone while the 6.5 Creedmoor rises to the top as the most popular centerfire rifle cartridge.

SIG Sauer has a legacy of offering top-shelf products, regardless of type, and it appears the company will continue that heritage with its Elite Hunting ammunition line. Offered in Copper Game, and Varmint and Predator varieties, it is accurate and delivers great terminal performance.

Tactics that work for whitetails back East may not cut it for deer of the plains and mountains across the West.

Ernest Hemingway’s “Green Hills of Africa” is classic hunting literature. And while its pages have led many to follow the path of the hunter, the actual route of the safari Hemingway used as the basis for his story has, until now, remained elusive.

Just the thought of ticks or chiggers is enough to make a grown man cringe in horror, but knowledge, preventive measures and common sense will help hunters avoid them.

The relationship that exists between hunting and firearms throughout history is in some ways more crucial to our American identity than anything else, and there are probably more connections between the two than we realize.