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The Best Hunting Backpacks of 2023
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Best Overall Stone Glacier Evo 3300 See It Best for Backpack Hunts Kifaru Dall See It...
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The Best Elk Hunting Calibers of 2023
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Caught Between Two Rutting Bulls, From the Archives
This story, Double Trouble, originally appeared in the September 1998 issue of Outdoor Life. SOMETIME EARLIER that afternoon I had given up. My aching muscles and discouraged spirit signaled the end...
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I Finally Drew a Bighorn Sheep Tag. I Was Too Out of Shape to Punch It
This story, “The Lost Sheep,” originally ran in the September 1964 issue of Outdoor Life. While it is, in many ways, a classic big-game hunt of its era, this story also shows how hunting ethics have...
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I Shot the Wrong Bull, and It Was Still the Best Day I Ever Spent in the Woods
This story, “Elk by Error,” originally ran in the June 1947 issue of Outdoor Life. CAUTIOUSLY I shifted my eyes. A thousand feet under my boots I could see white water whipping a jig-saw canyon. The...
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Thieves Are Stealing More and More Racks From Hunters in the West—and Their...
JIMMY LYNN WOKE UP grinning in his tent on Sept. 23. He was eight miles deep in Wyoming’s Hoback range, and he’d killed a big 6×6 mule deer the day before. Now he had two days to wait for his ride out...
View ArticleDo Elk Bugle with Regional Accents?
Dr. Jennifer Clarke was just slightly miffed when, after sending her graduate students to the library at the University of Northern Colorado to find published research on elk vocalizations, they...
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I Killed the Last Grizzly in Colorado
This story, originally titled “Bear Attack,” first appeared in the January 1980 issue of Outdoor Life. Until this attack in September 1979, grizzlies were thought to be extinct in Colorado. Two...
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Why Everybody Loves to Hate Nonresident Elk Hunters
IN MONTANA’S CAPITOL last winter and spring, legislators have had little affection for nonresident hunters, who face shorter seasons, fewer licenses, and would be required to pay more for their...
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The Legacy, and Last Years, of Jack O’Connor
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › FOR A WEEK we had been hunting chukars above the Snake River in eastern Washington, my...
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Why We Hunt: The Answer to Hunting’s Toughest Question, from the Archives
This story originally appeared in the November 2002 issue. IT HAPPENS almost every year. I sit on a ridgetop in September, hunting elk somewhere in the Rockies. Flocks of geese fly high overhead in V...
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Where to Shoot an Elk With a Bow
Your bow, arrow, and broadhead don’t matter if you shoot an elk in the wrong spot. Whether you spend three grand or 200 bucks on your setup, the result will be the same: a few drops of blood that...
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Breaking the Rules to Kill a Bull Elk, from the Archives
This story is republished as it originally appeared in the August 1992 issue under the title, “Break the Rules for Bulls.” IT HAD BEEN the most frustrating, and yet the most glorious, week of elk...
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The Ultimate Guide to Elk Hunting
For every American whitetail hunter, Western elk hunting is aspirational, calling to them the way Cooperstown calls to a Little Leaguer. The impossibly heavy and branching antlers of bulls are as...
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Jack O’Connor Makes a Flawless Shot on a Record-Book Elk
DURING THE MIDDLE of the night something awakened me, and for a moment I thought I was back in Tanganyika listening to the dawn roaring of a pride of lions. But in seconds my consciousness spun me...
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13-Year-Old Bowhunter Shoots a Bull Elk and a Blacktail on the Same Evening
When the blacktail doe 13-year-old Addisyn Olson arrowed on Sept. 14 took off into the woods on her family’s land in Centralia, Washington, she was pretty bummed out. After six years of rifle hunting...
View ArticleMinnesota Teen Shoots 8×10 Bull with a Once-in-a-Lifetime Tag
Middle-school student Ryker Copp will probably never top the massive bull elk he shot Sunday during a special-draw hunt with his dad in northwest Minnesota, and that’s just fine. Ryker and his dad,...
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This Huge New Mexico Bull Could Be an Archery State Record
It was the third day of Ridge Crum’s bowhunt when the bull finally showed. Crum, 27, was hunting alone in a small, elevated blind over a waterhole on his family’s cattle ranch, which lies near the...
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After Bowhunting for Five Years, Hunter’s First Archery Kill Is a 7X7...
Erika Lincoln had just removed her hunting boots when her husband spotted the bull. She was sitting in the passenger seat of Chris’ truck, having just tugged on her cowboy boots and writing off yet...
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I Was an Anti-Hunter. Now I Take My Daughter Hunting with Me
MY FIRST IMPRESSION of hunting was watching maggots crawl out of a small buck’s eyes as he lay in a friend’s backyard in central Wyoming. I couldn’t have been more than 3 or 4 years old. That night,...
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