Outdoor Life

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Outdoor Life

Making Moves • The urge to pull stakes is universal

This Happened to Me! • I saved my little sister from a shark attack!

The Road to Recovery • The surprising key to solving big-game migration conflicts in the West? Roadkill

The Never-Ending Season • While some duck hunters agonize over how they’re going to hunt enough days with all their responsibilities at home and work, guide Dusty Brown doesn’t give it a second thought. He knows the only way to truly hunt the waterfowl migration is to join it

The Insane Cult of the Lake Erie Walleye • On Lake Erie, migrating walleyes are tracked by researchers with advanced tech—and a truly fanatical fishing culture

Can Sheep Hunting in the Yukon Survive Another Century? • Chasing mountain sheep in the Yukon Territory has been a dream adventure for generations of American hunters. But for many, that dream may now be slipping away

The British Invasion • The polite and capable British Lab is coming to a duck marsh or pheasant field near you—whether you like it or not

Testing the Waters • As water temperatures rise in the West, it’s becoming unethical—and illegal in some places—to catch trout. But for anglers willing to make the journey, the solution might just lie in the mountains

Welcome to Montana • The state has become a sanctuary for the outdoors-obsessed and anyone seeking to escape the confines of big cities and long commutes. Can you blame them? Many locals do

Field & Stream

Fall Break • From birds to bulls to bucks, there’s no shortage of adventures to seek come autumn—or great stories to tell when the season ends

September • The first sign of leaves beginning to turn can only mean one thing—a new hunting season has arrived

Out of the Smoke • The smell of tobacco barns is a sure sign dove season is back—and that fall is finally here

Month of the Muddler • On steelhead rivers in autumn, this month is your best chance to trigger a strike on the surface

Further Into Fall • At the end of a brutal physical test in some of the West’s steepest terrain, the author unexpectedly arrows his first bull elk

Tina’s Last Fall, Part 1 • There were signs that the author’s English setter was slowing down, but not as she sailed through the grasslands on an early-fall hunt for sharptail grouse

October • The second act of the season starts to take on a different feel—and look

Another Chance • On a backcountry mule deer hunt, second chances don’t come easily. When they do, you’d better be ready

Roar of the Freight Train • In some Northwest waters, steelhead can reach 30 pounds—or bigger—and their fighting power lives up to this pattern’s namesake

Tina’s Last Fall, Part 2 • On an unforgettable hunt in the Wisconsin north woods, the author’s setter pointed one woodcock after another—but they would be her last

November • As temps drop and the last of the foliage clings to the trees, the season’s main event kicks into gear

Best Seat in the Woods • For a whitetail hunter, there’s no better place to watch nature’s spectacle than from a treestand in November. That is, until you pull the trigger

Day of the Intruder • As the season nears its end, the fishing gets more difficult. Even when it’s over, steelhead have a way of invading your dreams

In Living Color • In late November, there are simpler—and closer-to-home—waterfowl shoots than a harlequin hunt. But very few are as adventurous, or wild

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