"The same eye that could follow the fastest ball to the plate and knock it out of the park is deadly over the sights of his .401 Winchester"

The post I Deer Hunted with Babe Ruth. He Tagged a Nice Buck and Wrestled a Cow appeared first on Outdoor Life.

"It was the first time I’d ever walked up to an animal and thought, 'If I never pull the trigger again, so be it'”

The post Stalking This Massive Costal Brown Bear Was the Greatest Experience of My Hunting Career appeared first on Outdoor Life.

The legendary bowhunter hires an unflappable Kodiak guide as backup while he sneaks into bow range of Alaska's giant coastal brown bears

The post Fred Bear’s Wildest Hunt: The Day He Faced a World‑Record Brown Bear at 20 Yards appeared first on Outdoor Life.

The 29-year-old hunter got the disease after skinning a brown bear off the Alaskan Peninsula, but it took doctors weeks to diagnose it

The post Alaska Man Contracts Mysterious ‘Seal Finger’ Disease in What Officials Are Calling a Medical First appeared first on Outdoor Life.

After a run of bad luck, I returned to the Last Frontier by boat in search of bears and salmon. Only this time, I brought my whole family

The post The Alaska Bear Hunt That Tested My Entire Family appeared first on Outdoor Life.

In a scene from the Old West, I saddled up and set out with a group of seasoned bear hunters and their loyal dogs

The post I Joined a Horseback Posse to Track Down a Cattle-Eating, Dog-Killing Black Bear appeared first on Outdoor Life.

The .375 H&H has been widely considered the world’s best all-around hunting cartridge for nearly a hundred years. But the .375 Ruger is even better

The post 375 Ruger vs. 375 H&H: Is the Old Classic Still the Better Worldwide Hunting Cartridge? appeared first on Outdoor Life.

After animal-rights groups bought up dozens of tags to keep them from hunters, the state announced a conservative — and uneventful — harvest

The post Anti-Hunters Tried to Hijack Florida’s Black Bear Season, But Officials Say the Hunt Was a ‘Success’ Anyway. Here’s the Harvest Data appeared first on Outdoor Life.