Big Game

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.

Check out everything new in the world of shooting, hunting and outdoors straight from this year's annual SHOT Show from Las Vegas.

A couple of duck hunters off Cape Cod were enjoying a morning in layout boats, floating among their decoys waiting for some sea ducks to come in, when one hunter got a big surprise — a seal climbed right into his lap.

Ever seen a deer actually shed its antlers? Maybe you've been that fortunate (we haven't), but we bet you haven't seen an albino shed his antlers! Until now, that is. Check out this footage captured in Wisconsin.

Action sports fans and athletes are a little more on the wild side than the rest of us. Would follow or chase a moose down a mountain on your snowboard? Keep in mind there may be a fine involved.

Three mountain lion kittens born last month in the Santa Monica Mountains were inbred, a wildlife expert said, marking a troubling sign for a population penned in by the urban sprawl of metropolitan Los Angeles.

State wildlife officials plan to capture and relocate almost 200 pronghorn from a northern New Mexico ranch.

As one of a dwindling number of gunsmiths in the country, Mike Crevar and his expertise remain in high demand by hunters, collectors and gun aficionados near and far.

Illinois wildlife officials want to persuade landowners in some northern Illinois counties to let them shoot deer to control the spread of chronic wasting disease.

Missouri deer hunters remember days when they could pick and choose the deer they wanted to shoot. Now, they're lucky just to see deer. Any deer, let alone a big buck.

Vermont Fish and Wildlife wardens said they visited the house last year where the men lived and found three deer in their shed.

We found some new-gear gems in the aisles of Nashville.

There's still time for hunters to participate in the Georgia Hunters for the Hungry program.

A new California law banning the use of dogs in bear hunting appears to have had a dramatic effect, with fewer bears killed by hunters in 2013 than in any other year over the past two decades.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission says it's detected chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer for the first time in a year.

Charleston's ninth urban deer hunt set a record with at least 100 deer killed.