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A Week-by-Week Guide to September Elk Hunting

Follow these tips to adjust your strategy weekly to take advantage of pre-rut, breeding and post-rut elk behavior to up your odds of success.

COVID-19 Spurs Conservation Funding With Gun, Ammo Sales

Federal excise taxes collected during record spring sales months benefit hunting, shooting and wildlife management.

Your November Rut Playbook

Here’s a week-by-week guide to staying in step with the rut this month to up your odds of tagging the buck you want.

Study Up to Find Your Rut Stand

Again and again, GPS-collar movement studies of whitetails find that mature bucks are individuals. There are types, sure. Just as some middle-aged men are homebodies and others like to be out and about, there are categories we can put bucks in—but that really doesn’t help you decipher the specific pattern of an individual deer.

A Beagle I’ll Never Forget

Every young hunter should have a dog to lead him into the wild, but Barney did much more than that.

10 Ways to Improve Your Decoy Spread

Sure, you might decoy a duck or two with any old spread, but many migrators are too smart for dated tactics.

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