In true, mountain-out-of-a-mole-hill government fashion, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services recently released updated COVID-19 guidance, urging hunters to wear a mask when field dressing any whitetail they’ve killed. Wisconsin deer hunting ...
Two Hikers, Ages 83 and 5, Make Appalachian Trail History
The Appalachian National Scenic Trail was established in 1937. That’s just one year before M.J. Eberhart was born, and the 83-year-old just hiked his way into Appalachian Trail history. On November 6, 2021, he completed the trail’s roughly 2,200 ...
Watch: Hunter-Gatherers and the Meaning of Life
Few experiences in this world are more authentic or pure as hunting for sustenance — heading to the field with the knowledge that if you’re not successful, you don’t eat. For the Hadza, a tribe of roughly 1,500 true hunter-gatherers living in a ...
New Documentary Chronicles Insane Mountain Climbing Record Quest
Climbing the 14 highest peaks in the world is an accomplishment very few mountaineers have achieved. Only 44 highly motivated souls, to be exact, have done it. Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, a Nepalese mountaineer and former British army soldier, is the ...
Coast Guard Rescue: Alaska Hunters Stranded for 8 Days Safely Extracted
Seven hunters were safely returned home after a Coast Guard rescue helicopter extracted them from a fishing camp near Emmonak, Alaska, on Thursday, Nov. 5. The group, all from Pilot Station, were socked in by bad weather on their way home ...
New Animal Tracking Software: Hunting, Conservation Game Changer?
An animal tracking software program that can predict the movements of large game animals without the use of expensive, individual-animal-based tracking hardware like GPS collars has been developed by researchers with the German Centre for Integrative ...
Father Shot, Killed While Elk Hunting With Son: Importance of Gun Safety
Every year we hear about the injuries or tragic deaths of hunters across the country due to unsafe actions in the field. Unharnessed falls from treestands, negligent firearm discharges, misidentified targets, failed fence crossings, and drownings are ...
Sitting Bull Has Great-Grandson in South Dakota, DNA Test Confirms
If you want to find out if the milkman is your dad, Maury can help you out. If you’re trying to learn about all the branches of your family tree, there are a bunch of genealogy websites that will connect the dots you need connecting. But if you want ...
Carp Crazy: A Fly-in Fishing Adventure on Lake Michigan’s Beaver Island
Forty-degree wind and spitting rain blow unabated from Canada’s northwestern territories, gusting to 25 miles per hour. The rain hits my jacket and the back of my hands with the sharp snap of firecrackers as I stand waist-deep in the murky water of ...
The Beer Mile: New World Record Set for Fastest Chug-and-Run
Canadian distance runner Corey Bellemore just beat his own world record by 5 seconds at the 2021 Beer Mile World Classic, held in Leigh, England. He finished in 4 minutes, 28 seconds, providing proof that elite athletes are just as human as the rest ...
Dumb-Ass Tourists: Methheads, Turds, Golfballs, and Baseballs
US National Parks welcomed 237 million visitors into their 423 national gems last year, and 168 million people trekked into the wilds of our national forests. Hundreds of thousands more laced up their trail shoes to recreate in the great outdoors at ...
Joe Rogan Hunts Triceratops: Does the Man Have No Shame?!
Animal lovers and vegetarians unite! Mark Dice is going to hold Joe Rogan accountable for killing a triceratops for sport. Possibly Ted Nugent, too. You read that right: Joe Rogan hunts triceratops. Dice, a popular YouTube personality, started a ...
Record Grass Carp Caught by Idaho Angler Fishing for Smallmouth
Idaho is known as a world-class hunting and fishing mecca. Anglers make annual pilgrimages to the state’s pristine waters to fish for wild brown, rainbow, and cutthroat trout. Rocky Mountain sheep, elk, mule deer, and pronghorn are big game animals ...
Forest Service Retires Last Cobra Attack Helicopters Used for Wildfire Ops
The sound of rotor chop fills the sky, sending choking-thick smoke in tight-whipped swirls. Fire cracks and races furnace-hot below, consuming trees, vegetation, and structures, chasing animals, and forcing people to run panicked with what little ...
Barren Ground Film: Backcountry Caribou Hunt in Alaska
Frank Peralta’s rifle shot covered the 400 yards across the wide-open Alaskan tundra in a heartbeat. It dropped the big bull caribou where it stood. The gunshot was still an echo when his friend, Bill Vanderheyden, yelled, “Bear!” “Bear!” he ...
Surfing in Bali: Brazilian Puts Down Killer Minute-Plus Run on Bombie
When it comes to surfing in Bali, professional surfer Bruno Santos experienced the closest thing to transcendence that a wave rider can get when he dropped into an empty lineup on Bombie and carved the cliff face of a seemingly neverending wave for ...
LOL: Oregon Poaching Ring Done-In By Text Messages
Willy Hollings is a “stone-cold killer,” according to his hunting buddy Eric Hamilton. The Oregon State Police Wildlife Division couldn’t agree more — and now they have nearly 30 big game animals poached by Hollings, Hamilton, and a third accomplice, ...
Watch: Crazy Ultramarathon Blizzard Rescue Captured on Video
Hundreds of trail runners struck out to tackle the DC Peaks 50 Ultramarathon in Utah. The off-road faithful knew they had 12,000 feet of climbing ahead of them, but none of them expected to be pulled from the trail during a crushing blizzard just ...
Elk vs. Moose: Know Your Bulls
Some hunters have a problem with animal identification. We’re not talking about understanding the subtle taxonomic differences between a yellow pine chipmunk, cliff chipmunk, and uitnta chipmunk. No, hunters are having a hard time identifying elk vs. ...
Florida Man Breaks State Peacock Bass Record
A Florida man broke a 28-year state fishing record when he caught a whopper of an exotic butterfly peacock bass in Broward County. Felipe Prieto landed the 9.11-pound, 21 5/16-inch technicolor slab this week, which dethroned the previous 9.08-pound ...
World Record Bulls: The Top 5 Typical Archery Elk
There are big bull elk. Then there are really big, world-record-class bull elk. The Pope and Young Club awards North America’s finest archery-killed wapiti by size in two categories: typical or symmetrical antlers and non-typical or unsymmetrical ...
Trophy Elk: The Top 5 Non Typical Archery Bulls of All Time
An archery stalk on any elk is no easy task, but getting bow-and-arrow close to the biggest bull elk in the world is another thing altogether. Elk are uber wary, have highly evolved senses, and tend to vanish if they even think something isn’t right. ...
World Record Whitetail: The Top 5 Non-Typical Archery Bucks
No big game animal causes more American hunters to burn vacation days and abandon all adult responsibilities than whitetail deer. From New England to Florida, New Jersey to Montana, and in all the bread-basket, rust-belt, and Great Plains states in ...
World Record Whitetail: The Top 5 Typical Archery Bucks
There are non-typical whitetail deer with racks that are mind-blowingly massive, almost alien sculptures of bone. Typical whitetails are not that. Typicals are the clean, symmetrical, even “ideal” headgear that most hunters imagine when they think of ...
So You Want to Shoot an Archery World Record?
Potential world record big game animals exist no matter your home range. (There’s a freak in every crowd.) But some regions are just downright better than others when producing archery world-record animals. What makes these places so unique? No one ...
How to Score a Bull Elk
You just sent an arrow through the bull of a lifetime. The adrenaline has finally subsided. Your hands stop shaking. You realize when your buddy said, “He’s big,” it was a goddamn understatement. You grab an immense G4. It’s nearly as thick as a soda ...
How to Score Whitetail and Mule Deer Trophies
After you’ve taken down a giant whitetail or mule deer there’s a moment when the adrenaline subsides, your hands stop shaking, and you’re able to start forming complete sentences again. As you take hold of the rack with both hands, the siren song of ...
Hunter Shoots Possible Lightning-Struck Elk in Montana
Minnesota native Brandon Dahring shot the first elk of his archery hunting career late last month in Montana. Of all the shot scenarios that played out in his head before the trip, he never imagined his 300 feet-per-second arrow finishing the job ...
Intense Photos From the West’s 5 Most Extreme 2021 Wildfires
Blistering hot, prodded by high winds, and feeding greedily on a tinder-dry landscape, the 2021 wildfires continue to devour the West just as the previous year's fires did. The fact is, there's nothing that can stop the fire from racing through the ...
World’s Dumbest Poacher Must Wear GPS Tracker All Fall
In the world of hunting and fishing, there’s a fine line between boldness and stupidity. A recently busted poacher, Justin Hadley, may prove the all-time greatest of both. The Darby, Montana resident pleaded guilty to more than 30 poaching-related ...