Back in April, a North Dakota angler traveled to Minnesota and broke the state’s catch-and-release record for lake sturgeon. Travis Keating’s giant sturgeon measured 6.6-feet long (longer than the ...

The Boone & Crockett Club has been keeping meticulous records of the continent’s most impressive big game animals for more than a century. In that time, thousands of mulie bucks have made the books, ...

One of the things I like best about deer hunting is that you can use just about any rifle you want. For half a century, a 30-30 lever-action was the definition of a deer gun. Pumps and semi-autos had ...

Every turkey is a trophy, of course, but some are more unusual trophies than others. As hunters tag birds across the country this spring some birds have more beards or longer beards or spurs. Some are ...

A young waterfowling friend recently got a German shorthair and asked me what kind of upland shotgun he should buy so he could take his dog hunting. I said, “That’s the wrong question. You’ve already ...

Dawson Hefner learned how to catch alligator gar when he was a teenager, landing his first alligator gar when he was 16 years old by drifting a chunk of freshwater drum under a Coke bottle in Texas’s ...

Geese look big at the edge of range. They look huge up close. I waited for “huge,” then hung on a couple seconds more until the four geese began to backpedal. I raised the 20-gauge M2, and two of the ...

Explore the best fishing rods, rod-and-reel combos, and expert-tested gear for every angling style. From baitcasting and spinning rods to complete setups, our in-depth reviews and field tests help you ...

Glide bait fishing is more popular than ever. The technique leans into a simple idea: big bait equals big fish, and it has migrated from the West Coast across the country. Traditionally, the big-bait ...

Mossberg’s sole hunting shotgun introduction at 2025 SHOT Shot was a bit of a surprise in this age of straightwall deer rifles. The company announced a trio of Model 500 Slugsters, including a ...

In a partly-line vote with widespread ramifications for public lands across the country, the United States Senate just overturned a 20-year mining ban for the Rainy River Watershed in northern ...

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