The Aero Precision Solus Competition is one of three new bolt-action rifles the company has released this year. Matthew Every We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › If you shoot AR-15s a lot, you may know about Aero Precision. The company is a staple for high-quality uppers, lowers, and other parts, plus fully-built AR-platform rifles. Their website is one of the easiest to navigate for specing out parts to build an AR, and recently, they’ve decided to take a similar approach with a completely novel bolt-action rifle ..read more

The author used a suppressed rifle to take this nice whitetail buck. Blane Everett We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Last year I was on safari in Africa with my friends Bill and Ray Mazelin from Wyoming. We frequently safari together, and I’d brought my first suppressor for hunting in Africa. Those boys never hunt unsuppressed, and for two weeks they bombarded me with all the reasons you should always hunt with a suppressed rifle. I’ll admit that after that safari and a full year of hunting suppressed, I’m beginn ..read more

Jim Cumming / Adobe Stock Did you know that Airedale terriers were once used as bear hunting dogs? They were known to be fearless and especially nasty. Today, more Airedales are found on the couch than nose-down on the track of a big bruin. But there are a number of other bear hunting dog breeds suited to the task and ready for the chase. Following a pack of hounds is just about the most exciting way to hunt bears. Once the dogs strike a track, they can be on it for miles through unforgiving terrain. If you live in one of the handful of states where hunting bears with dogs is legal, I suggest ..read more

This file photo from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks shows whitetail buck racked with Chronic Wasting Disease at a research facility in the Sunflower State. Kansas Department of Parks and Wildlife No matter where you stand on the CWD debate—whether you think it’s the most important deer-related issue of our time or more than a little overblown—what’s long been a constant, and a comforting constant at that, is the fact that the disease has never been shown to “jump” from deer to humans. It’s also why this report, “Two Hunters from the Same Lodge Afflicted with Sporadic CJD: Is Chro ..read more

This file photo from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks shows whitetail buck racked with Chronic Wasting Disease at a research facility in the Sunflower State. Kansas Department of Parks and Wildlife Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been sweeping through North American deer herds since it was first detected at a captive cervid facility in Wyoming in 1967. In all the decades since, there’s never been a documented and confirmed instance of the always-fatal neurological disease jumping the species barrier, from cervids into humans. According to a new study, published last week in the j ..read more

Want your fall plots to look like this? Start planning now. Evolved Harvest Remember when you put in your first food plot? You probably had little more in mind than maybe seeing a few more deer in the fall, right? But inevitably, most food-plotters come to see themselves as land stewards and habitat managers, first for deer specifically and then for wildlife more generally. In short, we want to do as much as possible to enhance habitat for wildlife—and as little as possible to harm it. It explains why more and more food-plotters these days are looking to cut back on chemical herbicides. “We’v ..read more

Waterfowlers unload decoys from a new Polaris Ranger XP Kinetic UTV. Polaris We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Maybe I’m not ready to trade in my full-sized pickup for an electric vehicle, but it’s not like I’m totally EV ignorant. My mother-in-law has a golf cart and I once saw a Tesla charging station up around Louisville. I stopped and took a picture of it to show my buddies back home.   Still, when I picked up a new Polaris Ranger XP Kinetic to review, I was skeptical. I towed it home with my Toyota Tund ..read more

Trijicon We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › If you’re about to drop a significant portion of your paycheck on one of those tiny red-dot sights, you’re probably weighing a couple options from Trijicon—and I bet you’re down to the RMR vs SRO. They’re not cheap, but what all of that money buys you in both optics is real-world-tested technology, which is a good thing if you’re shooting a pistol for competition or backcountry self-defense or carrying a turkey gun through the woods. But which one of these sights is bett ..read more

The famous Hanson buck on the left and Missouri Monarch on the right. Antlers by Klaus Defining “fame” when it comes to big whitetails can be difficult. Size is important, of course. So much so, in fact, that I’d be hard pressed to think of a truly famous whitetail that isn’t also huge. (Bambi doesn’t count.) But it isn’t size alone. Some big bucks become better known than others because they have a better story surrounding them or because they got more media attention. Though not always for the best reasons. Some bucks are as infamous as they are famous. These days, to some degree, you can l ..read more

Shooting sticks are commonly used while hunting in Africa but they can be just as beneficial to the hunter in North America. Richard Mann We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › The first widespread use of shooting sticks probably happened sometime during the 16th century as the matchlock rifle became commonplace. Matchlock shooters benefited greatly from shooting sticks because the rifles were heavy and tended to go bang at an unpredictable moment once the match cord was lit. Thankfully, the lock time of rifles has im ..read more