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Understanding how whitetails move through your hunting area during the rut is more important than patterning a particular buck or any other factor.

Contributor Mike Roux gives some tips on how to set decoys in the early season.

When mounting a riflescope, you’ll need to adjust the eye relief and make sure the reticle is square to the bore before tightening the ring screws. Here’s how to do it correctly the first time.

Other than a gun or bow, a knife is about the most important tool a hunter may carry. Of course it must be sharp to be useful. Here’s how to put a good edge on it.

Here’s how to build a fire when you need it most.

Deer managers and hunters are still learning how to deal with coyotes for the good of deer herds and ecosystems.

Before you settle in to work a bird, pay attention to where—and how—you sit. Your location and position can make all the difference in getting a shot.

Thanks to changes in elk behavior due to land use, development, human encroachment and more, the elk we hunt today do not behave as the species did in our granddaddies’ days. Here’s how to zero in on modern habitat where elk seek refuge, and how to hunt it.

An arrow's accuracy is partially determined by how weight is distributed along its length. Adding weight front of center could improve performance.