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Federal Premium has announced that, for 2015, it will be making its Vital-Shok High Density buckshot—which has served as the load of choice for a professional feral hog exterminators—available to the general public.

If you've been paying attention to AmericanHunter.org (and I sure hope you have!), you know that we firmly believe the .30-30 Win. will never die. Last year proved that the folks at Federal Premium felt the same way, given that they rolled out a .30-30 Win. Vital-Shok Trophy Copper load.

With CWD now in 30 states, the bill would fund disease research and management.

The bottom line is that African wildlife must pay its way in the modern world, and hunters provide that vital revenue.

There's now another all-important reason to grow a duck beard: To support vital conservation efforts through Ducks Unlimited's "Beards for Conservation" program.

As part of the organization’s 150-year stewardship of shooting and hunting, the NRA in 2016 created the Hunters’ Leadership Forum to push against the demonization of hunting.

A common item of discussion among big-game hunters is proper bullet placement. All of us agree a vital area must be the target, but that includes several options, and while neck shots can be extremely effective, they can also fail miserably.

Broadheads, like bullets, are the only objects that actually impart a hunter’s deadly will on game, so their selection, quite literally, is vital. When the arrow leaves the bow, a hunter puts full trust in his broadhead, and because of this, few products arouse such emotion, loyalty and suspicion.