Expert Guides

The ATN ThOR 6 Mini 256 comes in small, tough, and priced like it wants to start a fight in the budget thermal scope aisle. It found pigs, handled real hunting use, and packed smart features into a compact optic, but its 256×192 sensor still fails to meet buyers earn their expectations honestly.

The AR-15 is not just a range rifle or a tactical toy. It is a genuinely capable hunting platform, and if you have spent any real time chasing game with one, you already know the critics are missing the point.

The Savage Impulse Hog Hunter brings straight-pull speed, .308 Winchester punch, and a clever Hexlock bolt system into a rifle built for fast hog work. It is quick, strange, heavy, fun, and not without one big Texas-sized magazine complaint.

Chronic Wasting Disease keeps showing up in headlines, camp talk, and state regulations, but panic has a way of outrunning facts. Here’s the straight answer on what CWD is, how it spreads, what it looks like, and what hunters actually need to worry about.

A weird Idaho spring turned one big bear into a pile of sweet meat, 11 pints of bear grease, and a batch of cracklings worth fighting over. Here is how to render bear fat cleanly, safely, and deliciously without wasting the good stuff.

A Pocatello man who prosecutors say made more than $55,000 running an illegal hunting operation has been sentenced to prison and permanently stripped of his hunting privileges.

Supporters of Initiative Petition 28 say they turned in 140,000 signatures. Opponents say the PEACE Act could upend hunting, fishing, farming, restaurants, and Oregon’s outdoor culture.

Two University of Alabama students were killed after a fire tore through a hunting camp in Conecuh County early Wednesday morning, and investigators now believe fireworks may have played a role in the tragedy.

The DNT Hydra HS335R tries to pull off the night-hunting equivalent of a five-tool magic trick. It is a thermal scope, clip-on, scanner, laser rangefinder, and ballistic calculator packed into a 15-ounce unit selling for under $1,800.