It takes a special person to marry a hunter. When you say “I do” to one, you’re committing not just to a person, but to a lifestyle. While it in no way reflects how much your spouse loves you, when it comes to hunting season, you often take a backseat. You often find yourself making a
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What’s the Nosler Sheep Slam? See what John Nosler accomplished and you’ll get the idea. For sheep hunters, the pinnacle of their pursuit is completing a North American Grand Slam. But not every hunter has the time, patience, and most importantly, the stamina to successfully harvest Dall, Stone, Rocky Mountain bighorn and Desert bighorn sheep
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Watch an Alaskan Bull Moose keep up the pace with a moving boat. Instagram user Gabe Nyblad took an epic video of a bull moose chasing his boat in Alaska. Incredibly, the moose seems to keep up with the moving boat by simply trotting right next to it! Watch and listen as the men in
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This what you need to know to hunt deer in Indiana. The state of Indiana is often overlooked by deer hunters. We get it. The Hoosier state is quite unassuming in both terrain and features. It is also sandwiched between two far more famous whitetail deer states in Illinois and Ohio. Even Kentucky, which borders
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The Congo’s most notorious elephant poacher will serve 30 years in prison. One of the more frustrating aspects about wildlife crime is when violators get away with a slap on the wrist for their crimes. Prison sentences are exceedingly rare, but one poacher in the Republic of Congo has been ordered to serve 30 years
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“I was guiding a photography expedition in Svalbard in 2018, and while we were photographing this male polar bear, he…
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Toronto Blue Jay Randal Grichuk loves his bird hunting! It is safe to say that 2020 has been a very weird year for everyone. Sadly, one of the first consistent things we lost to the Covid-19 pandemic was sports, and most of us did not realize how much we missed them until they were gone. Thankfully, a
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These are the places you can fulfill that bucket list hunt for a big bull moose. Moose hunting is one of the most exciting big game hunting experiences out there and the United States is loaded with hunting opportunities for this magnificent game animal. Before you book your moose hunting trip of a lifetime, however,
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These famous names are helping set a good example for hunters and fishermen everywhere. Hunting and fishing can be hot button topics in the modern age of the internet. We’ve noticed that it seems like there’s this unfair perception that famous actors, athletes and other celebrities don’t love or appreciate the outdoors. We’re here to
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Six men sentenced for poaching of numerous trophy animals. With the crazy negative news cycle of 2020, we will take any good news we can get at this point. Six poachers now must pay over $75,000 in reimbursement over a 2018 elk and mule deer poaching case in Idaho. In a press release on their
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These shed hunters definitely didn’t expect to find this… One just never knows what they’re going to find while spending time in the outdoors, and that’s part of the fun of it. In this particularly cool YouTube video, a husband and wife go out looking for antlers. However, they end up finding something completely unexpected:
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The giant weighed in at 5.46 pounds and was confirmed as the new Tennessee state record and possibly the new world record. Editorial note: This post has been updated since the record was confirmed. Genetic testing revealed that the black crappie that Jam Ferguson caught in May 2018 is indeed both a new Tennessee state
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