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Harvest or Kill? The Word Debate Dividing Hunters You're standing at the tailgate. It's cold. Your breath fogs up in the early morning air, your buddy hands you a cup of coffee, and you tell him about the buck you tagged the day before. Do you say you killed it? Or do you say you harvested it?

Mallards at a 33-Year Low: What the 2026 Waterfowl Population Survey Means for Duck Hunters Every fall, millions of American waterfowlers load their layouts, clean their decoys, and argue about calling technique — but the shape of each season starts months earlier, on the breeding grounds of the n

The Parasite Is Back — And Every Hunter in America Needs to Know About It When hunting season rolls around each fall, most men who head into the field are thinking about shot placement, wind direction, and whether the rut has kicked in yet. This year, there is something else every hunter, wildlife

MeatEater Plants Its Flag in Edina: Inside the Hunting Brand's Boldest Retail Move Yet On August 15, 2026, a brand built in deer blinds and on streaming platforms opened its doors in one of the Twin Cities' most polished retail corridors. MeatEater — the outdoor media and consumer products empire

Indiana DNR Opens the Woods and Water to the Next Generation — For Free There is something quietly urgent about a state agency carving out days on the calendar specifically so a father can hand his kid a fishing rod or walk him into the timber without anyone worrying about paperwork. Indiana's Dep

Kansas Rewrites the Rulebook: New Hunting Regulations, a Revived Turkey Season, and Higher State Park Fees Hit in Fall 2026 The Kansas Wildlife and Parks Commission wrapped up its August 27 meeting in Pittsburg with a set of decisions that will reshape how hunters and outdoor recreationists operat

Louisiana Opens the Swamp to Everyone: The First Recreational Alligator Hunt in Over Half a Century For the first time since 1962, Louisiana residents can legally pursue one of the most formidable predators in North America's wetlands — not as a commercial enterprise, but purely for sport. After m

DHR Health's "Fishing for Hope" Hits a Milestone: $524,130 Raised at the 20th Annual Tournament on South Padre Island There are fishing tournaments, and then there are fishing tournaments that keep a free clinic's lights on, its exam rooms staffed, and its waiting room open to people who have nowh

Everything You Need to Know About the 2026 Utah Upland Game Hunts Ask any serious bird hunter where the West delivers the most diverse, hard-earned, public-land shooting opportunity in a single state, and Utah keeps coming up. The Beehive State runs a sprawling upland game calendar that starts in

Everything You Need to Know Before Utah's Upland Game Season Opens The calendar pages are turning, the mornings are getting a bite to them, and across Utah's canyon country, high plateaus, and agricultural valleys, something is stirring. Upland game season is bearing down fast, and if you haven't