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Credit Where It’s Due: Gun Owners Are a Big Part of America’s Conservation Success...

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By Larry Keane Some journalists can’t help but shame the very benefactors driving the rebound of America’s bald eagle and other wildlife. They somehow get it backwards and report on the remarkable conservation successes of...
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Shoot a Hog, Save the Planet

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By Mark Oliva Celebrating National Shooting Sports Month doesn’t have to be just a range activity. Hunters can get into the game too and while they’re at it, lend a helping hand to conservation and...
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Two Anti-Hunting Groups Use Covid to Try to Radically Limit Hunting Across the United...

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By Lawrence G. Keane Two anti-hunting groups are making a move to kill hunting. They’re looking to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Department of the Interior (DOI) to publish a rule that...
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Hunting in Africa: Unintended Consequences, or How I learned to Love the Zebra

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Just like it was a few months prior, the KLM plane from Amsterdam to Johannesburg is almost completely empty. My two traveling companions, plus myself, make up a third of the passengers aboard the...
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The Gun and Ammo Sales Boom Means Record Pittman-Robertson Dollars for Conservation

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There's something the 10 million or so first-time gun buyers that have joined the ranks of America's firearms owners in the last 18 months probably don't know. Every gun and round of ammunition they...

Gear Review: Pnuma Outdoors 3L Element Rain Proof Jacket

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If you had asked me at the beginning of the year what would be my favorite piece of hunting gear for 2021, I would not have thought it would be a rain jacket. It's a...

The 67-Point “Butcher Buck:” Second Biggest in Bowhunting History

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Talk about non-typical. Scoring the rack on a buck like this isn't exactly straightforward. In fact, it took a five-and-a-half hour measuring session and 18 months of consideration to officially score the "Butcher Buck"...

Unwoke Once Again: Elmer Fudd Gets His Gun Back

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Looney Tunes has been some of the least woke and most entertaining television content to occupy young skulls full of mush over the last half century or so. Yosemite Sam's six-shooters and Elmer Fudd's...
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Book Review: ‘Born Ballistic’ by Bob Nosler

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Have you ever heard of Nosler Produce? What about Nosler Trucking? Did you know Nosler was once owned by Leupold, or that it took a generation to get it back to the Nosler family?...
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Safari Club, NRA Win Anti-Hunting Lead Ammunition Ban Lawsuit in Arizona

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From Safari Club International . . . Safari Club International (SCI) has successfully defended a lawsuit brought by anti-hunting groups attempting to ban lead ammunition in Arizona’s Kaibab National Forest. That lawsuit aimed to restrict hunting...

Huge Taxidermy Auction is Live Right Now

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John Brommel, "The Taxidermy King," has passed away and The Corner Shoppe here in Austin is auctioning off nearly 1,800 lots, some of which include multiple pieces. Most is taxidermy, but there's a ton...

Ask Josh: Why Are There So Few Modern Semi-Auto Magnum Hunting Rifles?

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Today’s Ask Josh comes to us from Mike W. who's a new hunter . . . Why are the majority of semi-auto hunting rifles chambered for weak rounds or small calibers? I want to go...