When Tana Grenda and Alishia Zemlicka, two well-seasoned western hunters, were dropped into a remote area of the Alaskan backcountry, they were hoping for a chance to rest, recharge, and have fun. However, with hurricane-like weather, a near-death ...
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Comeback: Canadian Hunting Outfitters in a Post-COVID World
We settled into a makeshift ground blind with a moss-covered jack pine trunk in front, loosely woven dead branches, and a tall spruce at our backs. A mere 12 yards separated us from a 50-gallon barrel of oats and a dead beaver hanging from a rope. ...
Bear Proof Suit Documentary Clips From the ’90s Go Viral
The story is almost too good to be true: In the 1980s, a middle-aged Canadian man decided to spend his entire life savings on building an indestructible suit of armor that he could wear into battle against a wild grizzly bear. For about seven years, ...
Glassing Camp: Become a Better Hunter in the Off-Season
Unless you’re lucky enough to attend a military sniper course, there's not much more than internet videos to teach you how to use binoculars and spotting scopes. Most hunters develop glassing skills through years of trial and error. Glassing isn't ...
The Bait Debate: Bear Baiting as Predator Management
Walking the last 20 yards into our bait site, John Rivet motioned to slow down; he stopped and then peeked into the clearing. Besides a few chickadees in the brush, the northern Alberta woods were quiet. “No bears,” he said, and we pushed on. A ...
Chuck Adams and Remi Warren on Fred Bear’s 10 Commandments of Hunting
If you’re a hunter born in the last few decades, you may not know Fred Bear. The likes of Cameron Hanes, Mike "Waddy" Waddell, Steve Rinella, or Lee and Tiffany are most likely who you were brought up with. Although understandable, it’s no ...
A Bowhunter’s Paradise: Caribou Hunting in Greenland
Justin Lee tagged out in the first two days of a weeklong trip. Caribou hunting in Greenland turned out to be way more archery-friendly than he anticipated. It wasn’t easy — not by any stretch of the imagination — but opportunities were plentiful, ...
Mule Deer vs Whitetail Deer: Learn the Differences, Slay Bucks
Hunters often say they prefer one species of deer over another, but for most, the reason for their preference is simply based on where they live. It’s not so much a mule deer vs whitetail deer debate or choice. It’s about what species to which ...
Father, Son Each Kill a Monster Velvet Buck on KY Archery Opener
Tagging a velvet buck with a bow is rare, but tagging a Pope and Young velvet buck is about as rare as a flying unicorn. A father and son both tagging trophy velvet whitetails in early bow season — on the same day — is just bonkers-level rare. That's ...
Caribou Hunter Still Missing in Alaska; Sons Launch New Search
Missing hunter Steve Keel, 61, hasn't been seen for more than a week since he vanished while on a dream hunt for caribou in Alaska. Search efforts have turned up nothing, and now, his two adult sons are scouring the Alaskan wilderness in hopes of ...
MTNTOUGH Fitness Lab Breaks Ground on New Bozeman Facility
MTNTOUGH, a Bozeman, Montana–based fitness company, just announced that it’s breaking ground on a new, bigger, and better facility — but no worries, they're staying in Bozeman. The company’s new space will ramp up productivity and meet several ...
Vampires, Night-Ops, and Adrenaline: Hog Hunting in Texas
It was simply too fucking hot. We were in Santa Monica, Texas, for a media hunt, and 110-degree temps meant no animals were moving during the day. So we went vampire mode. We slept in our air-conditioned windowless barndominium rooms all ...
Elk Hunting Gear: A Complete Guide to Quality Kit
As the days get shorter and evening temperatures cool, it's hard to think about anything but elk. September is my favorite time of year for many reasons: new gear to test, new adventures to share with friends, but most importantly, I get to live a ...
Hunting Forecast 2022: Extreme Weather Could Be Bad For Hunting
Sweltering heat waves, devastating droughts, extreme flooding, and destructive wildfires throughout the country could point to a brutal hunting forecast this fall. Mule deer, elk, wild turkey, and waterfowl hunters specifically could feel the impact ...
Bear Crashes Wedding, Kills Moose During Vows
“Till death do us part” took on a new meaning when a wedding was interrupted by a grizzly bear killing a young moose behind the bride and groom. The happy couple and their guests were enjoying the picturesque backdrop of Two Medicine Lake in ...
Rifles Allowed for Illinois Deer Hunting, With a Catch
After decades of limiting Illinois whitetail hunters to shotguns and muzzleloaders, the state is finally catching up with the rest of the country, save for a handful of other states. Well, sort of. Single-shot rifles will now be allowed for Illinois ...
SOF Medic on Wilderness Medicine Planning
Hunters spend hours e-scouting the backcountry in an effort to create a best-case scenario — a successful hunt. It’s high time they put an equal amount of time and effort into emergency planning and wilderness medicine training. According to ...
A Big Buck Expert On Deer Hunting in the Rain
It was the second Saturday of the Minnesota archery deer season, September 2019, and I was settled into my hunting saddle long before first light on a piece of public land. This property receives plenty of archery and duck hunting pressure, and for ...
Major Mountain Lion Hunting and Trapping Fight Boils in Texas
The future of mountain lion hunting and trapping is under debate in Texas after an animal-rights group petitioned to change regulations within the state. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission (TPW) directed staff to form a mountain lion working ...
Atlatls, Pits, and Persistence: How Early Hunters Killed Big Game
Imagine heading into an endless expanse of prairie before dawn with a group of people all armed with a stone-tipped throwing spear or even just a sharp stick and possibly carrying painfully empty bellies. Imagine knowing that the lives of your ...
Be Ready to Strike During the Whitetail Deer Rut
I love the rut. If you're a whitetail fanatic, how can you not? North winds blow, and heavy antlers abuse trees. Pawed earth can be found under licking branches, and leaves stained yellow, red, orange, and purple cling desperately to every ...
Field Dressing a Deer: A Step-By-Step Guide for New Hunters
Before we get started, allow me to preempt any comments about how I don’t know what I’m doing by saying there’s more than one way to skin a cat (or in this case field dressing a deer). The method I describe here is one of many ways you can field ...
The Essential Gear List for Bowhunting Pronghorn Antelope
Hunting the prince of the plains with a bow is no easy task. They inhabit wide-open spaces where they can use their large, powerful eyes and nearly 320-degree field of vision to detect predators up to four miles away — plus, they can reach speeds of ...
Smith & Wesson Introduces New 350 Legend Revolver for Hunters
Smith & Wesson just announced a new production hunting revolver that is anything but a run-of-the-mill wheelgun release. Meet the new S&W Model 350. The hefty revolver is the first to be chambered for the speedy and light-kicking .350 Legend ...
Watch: Brown Bear Cub Trips Balls After Eating ‘Mad Honey’
It’s a scourge on our wildlife, a menace to bear youth everywhere — the cubs call it by a lot of different names: the “Sticky Trippy,” “Mad Honey,” or simply, “Doing Pooh.” But it’s all the same drug menace plaguing our forests, and it must be ...
Roadkill Rules: 30 States That Let You Keep Dead Deer
Until recently, an affinity for picking up roadkill wasn’t something you’d discuss in polite barbecue company. But salvaging the good meat from a dead deer — especially one that died after meeting your front bumper — is becoming more acceptable in ...
There Are Gray Wolves In New York Says DNA of Hunter’s Kill
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation doesn’t officially recognize the presence of wolves in the state — but the DNA test results of an 85-pound canid shot last year recently came back 99% wolf. Joseph Butera is the ...
Elk Reaper: The Rise and Bowhunting Success of Aron Snyder
On our short but steep hike to our spike elk camp in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado, Aron Snyder stops and looks at the ground. “A pretty decent-sized herd must have come through here in the last 12 to 24 hours,” he ...
Investigators: Bear Went for the Kill in Fatal Montana Grizzly Attack
Last year, a fatal Montana bear attack claimed the life of Leah Davis Lokan when a grizzly dragged her out of her tent and killed her. When the story broke, authorities said Lokan had food in her tent, and many on social media wrote her death off as ...
HOUSES Act Aims to Build Apartments on Public Hunting Lands
If you think you've heard it before, it's because you have. A trio of western Senators have picked up a bill that's died two or three times, brushed it off, given it a catchy name, and are trying to peddle it yet again. Meet the newly-minted Helping ...
