Finding areas to hunt ruffed grouse can be a daunting task. But with modern mapping tools, finding a spot just got a whole ...

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Hunting stories about big deer are woven deeply into the fabric of Outdoor Life, and we look forward to hearing and sharing these stories each fall. These tales come from all over North America, and ...

For years some public ground hunters in northeast Kansas have known of a massive non-typical buck in the area. They started calling him “The Ghost” because the buck was tough to pattern, and because a ...

I’d be a terrible natural resources department director. There’s way too much compromise and scheming required to turn an agenda into action. But, I’d be a great czar, where my orders would be carried ...

When I was in my teens, Thanksgiving largely marked the end of the saltwater striper season in New Jersey. That’s not to say there weren’t opportunities beyond that, but well before Christmas it often ...

This story, “Christmas Adventure,” appeared in the December 1965 issue. The beagles had been ranging in the swamp for less than 10 minutes when Mutt bawled loud and clear on a red-hot track. A moment ...

In the lineup of wildlife diseases across the country, few are more studied and yet still more mysterious than chronic wasting disease. The prion disease, first identified in a Colorado research ...