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Bob Robb shares six outfitters with comfortable camps, good equipment and high success rates for black bear hunting this spring.

The meat and gravy is ideally suited for mashed potatoes, which makes this hearty dish just as enjoyable in fall as it is in spring.

There are plenty of cookbooks still on the market that are useful tools in guiding you in your wild endeavors in the kitchen.

Mesa Tactical has introduced its SureShell shotshell carriers and optics rail assemblies for Mossberg's Model 500 and Model 590 pump actions.

For a little more than a year I have been playing with some Berger bullets in a couple of rifles. Most shooters are aware of Berger Bullets—the southern California-based maker of very accurate, long-range bullets—but not all know of the company’s push into the hunting bullet market.

A possible new archery world record desert bighorn sheep was taken recently in—of all places—southern California. On December 20, 2011, Brett Scott arrowed a ram that green scores 180 7/8 inches on the Pope and Young measurement system. The horns measure 35 1/2 and 37 inches in length with 16 1/2-inch bases. If, after the 60-day mandatory drying period, the horn shrinkage is less than an inch, Scott’s ram will be a new world record for archery desert bighorn.

When I was young (how I regret that phrase), the old guys used to bore me with stories of how much better the hunting was, how much better the guns were, how much better—and simpler—cars and trucks were or even how much prettier the girls were when they were young. Now that I am among the old guys I am sometimes tempted to wax similarly. But was it really better 20, 30, 40 or even 50 years ago?

Fill the off-season lull with a hog hunt this year, because there's a surplus of them and it's always open season.

In a big move for turkey hunters, venerable gunmaker Weatherby rolls out three new shotgun models designed to rule the spring.