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The best rifles for still-hunting whitetail

Still-hunting whitetails demands a rifle that feels natural in your hands, moves quietly through the timber, and doesn’t ...
Boiled down to the essentials, a proper deer camp requires only a few things: a source of fire for cooking and warmth; coffee in the morning and sipping ­liquor in the evening to enjoy around said ...
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The best deer rifles chambered in .30-30

The .30-30 Winchester has been putting venison in freezers for more than a century, and it’s still one of... The post The ...
Just start a conversation about deer rifles and state emphatically that your opinion on which caliber and which make is the best. Other hunters will willingly oblige you. Most everyone who reads this ...
The author's Winchester Model 70 with a maple wood stock hanging from, fittingly, a maple tree. Let’s get this part out of the way first: I am not a Fudd. I own lots of rifles and shotguns with ...
Now my heart was really pounding! I felt like I had buck fever! My dad told me I had made a good shot and had hit the buck, ...
When whitetails are on the move, hunting from a blind or a tree stand could be a very effective and exciting way to pursue ...
When a new hunter decides it's time to take his grandfather's rifle out into the field, our hunting editor does his best to ...
In the old days, which weren’t that long ago, unskilled whitetail hunters attempted to attract deer to within shooting range ...
Bagging big bucks. With the end of the year quickly approaching, many country stars are soaking up all the time they get off the road, spending time with family or doing activities they love, as many ...