“Tag: how-to”

American Hunter Field Editor Bill Winke offers a few tips regarding the placement of your trail cameras during hunting season.

It takes patience and practice to spot game like a guide. Follow these rules to find more bucks and bulls with your optics, and hone your skills before the hunt.

An expensive riflescope is useless if it’s mounted poorly on a rifle. Many hunters pay gunsmiths to mount their scopes, but anyone can do it.

To help you tag a turkey this season, Field Editor Frank Miniter shares some helpful tips on how to predict and hunt gobbling peaks.

Fresh snow presents new opportunities to blast bunnies without stomping brush or running beagles—if you’re stealthy.

Whether you want to conserve calories or “stay with the game” overnight, sometimes it makes sense to bivouac in the backcountry. Before you do so, it pays to carefully consider options for shelter, water, food and more.

Treestands, like other pieces of equipment, need some “winterizing” treatment. Before storing your stands, inspect them for these signs of wear and tear.

When temperatures fall, the water in the air has a nasty habit of forming a crisp layer of frost over anything that will stand still long enough. You know what stands still? Decoys. What doesn’t: real ducks and geese. And darn it if they can’t spot a frosted-over decoy from a mile away, ending your hunt before it really even begins.