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How Dylan Nutt's Championship Victory Forced Berkley to Show Its Hand Dylan Nutt crossed the finish line at the Bassmaster Classic with nearly a 10-pound lead over second place. That kind of margin doesn't happen by accident. What made the win even more remarkable was what he was throwing — a bait

The State Just Rewrote the Rules on Deer Hunting — And It Changes Everything For decades, deer season in New York has followed a familiar rhythm. You buy your license, you get your tags, and you head into the woods. But the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is now proposing t

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Virginia gun owners woke up to some pretty big news recently. The state has passed what lawmakers are calling an assault weapons ban, and if the governor signs off on it, things are about to change in a serious way for anyone who owns or plans to buy certain firearms in Old Dominion. This isn't

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There's an old saying among serious hunters and anglers — the best spots are always a few miles past where the last guy quit walking. Turns out, the data agrees. A recently released report from Trout Unlimited has put hard numbers behind something outdoorsmen have known for generations: when it com

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One of America's Most Unique Wild Places Gets a Major Win for Hunters, Anglers, and Anyone Who Values What's Left of the Wild South The Okefenokee Swamp has survived a lot over the centuries. Hurricanes, drought, wildfire. But the biggest threat it faced in recent memory didn't come from nature —

The First Open Season in Years Comes With a Catch For the first time since 2023, both sport and commercial salmon fishing will be legal in California waters this spring. After years of closures that squeezed anglers and devastated commercial fishing operations up and down the coast, the news lande

A Proposed Rule Could Reshape How Hunters and Trappers Access National Preserves For the first time in years, hunters and trappers who have long operated in Alaska's national preserves may be looking at a genuine shift in how federal land policy treats their way of life. The Department of the Inte