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Predator success is all about playing the odds with opportunity. The more time you spend in the field, the more likely you are to find success. Here's some of the best cold-weather gear to help you stay warm and protect you against the elements.

It’s the late season. In some areas it’s beyond cold, in others, just beyond nasty. You need clothing that will fight for your right to stay in the field because you know regrets are made the second you give up the frost for a warm cup of coffee.

You see a buck, antlers slathered in velvet, across a field on a humid late-summer evening and think it looks staggeringly big. But the velvet, the buck’s skinny summer neck and the warm glow of light can lead to gross exaggeration in your mind.

Two days into a goose hunt outside of Hecla, South Dakota, we were sweating both figuratively and literally. Unseasonably warm and still conditions had combined with a bright moon to keep most birds grounded, and uninterested in feeding in sileage fields.

While U.S. upland bird seasons are closed by March, this month is prime time for quail hunting in some parts of sunny Mexico, particularly for the black-throated bobwhite variety found throughout the Yucatan Peninsula. NRA Outdoors, a service that organizes hunting and fishing excursions specially tailored to NRA members, offers an intriguing three-day hunt in Yucatan’s rural northern coastal plain, not far from the tourist mecca of Cancun. A party of six American hunters, including NRA Outdoors chief Greg Ray and Editorial Director John Zent, found the welcome there to be as warm as the weather, the birds were abundant, and the shooting downright excellent.

Browning's Full Curl line combines a wool-blend outer fabric with windproof and water-resistant lamination technologies to keep hunters warm and dry.

There’s nothing like the sight of a bird flushing through October foliage to make a grouse hunter’s blood warm … except maybe the sight of the bird flying away as a shot misses its mark.

Pre-rut whitetails can be as fickle as the early-fall weather. When your hot spots are too hot to touch, try these strategies to wallop warm-weather bucks.