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The Australian Outfit Turning the Toyota HiAce Into the Overlander Nobody Saw Coming There is a certain orthodoxy to overlanding that has calcified over decades of trail miles and campfire conversations. You need a pickup. Preferably a diesel. Ideally with a lift kit, a snorkel, and a locking rear

Is Hunting & Fishing a Right Worth Protecting? There's a moment every serious hunter knows. You're up before the sun, coffee in hand, boots laced, and the world is still quiet. It doesn't matter if you're in a blind in Georgia, a river valley in Montana, or the high country of Colorado — that

On the Water, the Border Is Very Real: How Bass Fishing Became the Unlikely Flashpoint in U.S.-Canada Tensions There is a stretch of water in upstate New York where the United States and Canada are separated by nothing more than a channel of current. On calm mornings, you can see the Ontario shore

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

Trump's Wolf Order: A Fight Over the Range, the Law, and the American West On a Friday morning in early September 2026, President Donald Trump stood in the Oval Office flanked by cattle ranchers and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and put his signature on an executive order that reignited one

10 Deer Myths Hunters Believe About Spooking Them Image credit: Flux.1 Deer hunting is as much a discipline of observation and patience as it is of

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

7 High-Tech Hunting Optics Image credit: Gentleman's Pursuits/Canva Hunting’s getting trickier with new wildlife tracking rules popping up, but the

10 Knife Terms Every Buyer Should Understand Before Spending Image credit: Flux.1 Walking into the knife market without a working vocabulary is a bi