Big Game

Police in Massachusetts arrest a drunken man for attempting to chase black bear from his property with a dull hatchet.

When it comes to hunting big whitetails, Southwestern Kansas isn’t on anybody’s radar — yet. But it should be.

The rules proposed by the wildlife agency staff say the bear hunt would last just one week, from Oct. 24 to 30, and only in daytime hours. Also, each hunter would be permitted to bag one bear per hunting season.

One Dad takes his daughter out for her first deer season and discovered the greatest joy in hunting.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously to allow bear hunting as soon as next October, after a 21-year ban.

Check out four more states where Western ’fowlers can find great gunning and ample birds.

One would expect that bold industry leaders like the Freedom Group companies and in particular Remington Arms, would be on top of every projectile category, from rocks to the latest commercial AR platform.

One of the coolest new products at SHOT comes from Battenfeld Technologies. It's a rifle cartridge loader that relieves all those sore thumb callouses that comes from pushing, for example, .223/5.56 rounds into a magazine.

The Outdoor Channel's Jim Libatore pressed the crowd of more than a thousand attendees to be imaginative, energetic and pro-active in defense of our shooting, hunting and outdoor lifestyle.

The 2014 SHOT Show opened to aisle-choking crowds and booth-bulging buyers. Even so, there were early indications that the hunting shotgun arena this year is packed with a combination of line extensions peppered with the introductions of a few actually new models.

Check out some new high-end insulation for premium hunting clothing, a cool line of replaceable-blade knives from Gerber and a unique new pink camo pattern for the girl who likes her guns to stand out.

Knives are some of mankind's most basic tools, yet every year manufacturers come up with new models, all intended to fill voids somewhere for someone in the world.

Tenzing Outdoors has introduced a new hunting pack that incorporates a convenient collapsible hunting seat with about as many pockets as a turkey hunter could need.

As the AR platform matures and lessons learned from combat troops and civilian shooters are incorporated into new designs, trends emerge and evolve. One such trend is the realization that quad-rail handguards are not an optimal choice for most shooters.

Utilizing a special "can within a can," DuraCoat's new Aerosol contains both finish and hardener in one easy to use package.

New furniture adorns the entire line of DDM4 rifles from Daniel Defense as well as the hunting ARs from Ambush Firearms.

EOTech debuted its newest holographic weapons sight accessory at this year's SHOT Show range day, showing off the drop-in Laser Battery Cap for its 512 and 552 optics.