Optics Setup For Western Big Game Hunting Lead

Choosing the Best Optics Setup for Western Big-Game Hunting

An ideal optics setup for Western big-game hunting includes a binocular, spotting scope, rangefinder and riflescope. Here’s how to choose the best of each for your needs.  

How to Navigate the Hunting Tag Application Process

Application deadlines, research into the best game units, bonus points: Any hunter who has never navigated Western states’ big-game draws has a lot to learn. Here’s how to approach “tag season” for your best chance at success.

Tips and Tactics for Hunting the West

For the hunter with courage, resourcefulness and a bit of skill, opportunities for hunting the West abound. Here’s how to begin turning your dreams into reality.

5 Great Over-the-Counter Hunts in the West

There’s no shortage of over-the-counter opportunities throughout the West that you can enjoy every year. Here are five of our favorites.

Utah’s Western Hunt Expo Opens to Rave Reviews

Come one, come all to a four-day family affair you won’t want to miss!

4 Questions You Should Never Ask a Backcountry Outfitter

By avoiding these questions, your outfitter won't have to second-guess your woods savvy.

Coffee, Classic Country And Colorado Mule Deer

In the northwest corner of the Centennial State, the deer of the West migrates from the high country to winter on lower ground. Every day new critters enter the mix. Sometimes, success is measured by merely being in the right place at the right time.

The Antelope Approach

On the wide-open Western plains pronghorn antelope, the second-fastest land animals on Earth, use distance as a buffer from danger. It’s wise to admit a truck is best used to locate herds. But reality is boots will need to hit the ground to close the deal.

An Open-and-Close Case

Wise old mule deer bucks hole up in dark timber … or hide in plain sight. Tactics for one habitat may not work in the other; here’s how to adapt to successfully hunt both.

Here-and-There Elk

To hunt North America’s regal antlered game, you must realize you will walk—a lot.

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