I swore up and down that I’d never do it. But then I did it. During a recent trip to Oklahoma where I was pursuing whitetails with a muzzleloader, I whipped out my smartphone and answered a text.

Oliso, a California-based company that produces all sorts of cool gadgetry, is jumping head-first into the outdoor market with their Outdoor Series Oliso PRO VS97A Vacuum Sealer.

Last week’s passage of the National Right to Carry Reciprocity Act by the U.S. House of Representatives was roundly cheered by most of the organizations you would expect, like the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation. But a national group you’ve probably never heard of that represents some 150,000 independent contrators counts itself as one of the country’s biggest supporters of extending the reciprocity rights of those with valid concealed-carry handgun permits to all 49 states that currently have a permit system.

If you're taking your kids hunting this fall and/or winter, use these tips to make it comfortable.

I was nervous the other day. I mean I was nail-biting, ulcer-style nervous. I was down to the last day on a hunt and I still had not found the buck to fit my “shooter” category and finish another TV show. On the last morning I slipped in to a field edge at dawn.

Thanksgiving is the holiday that has the most hunting traditions surrounding it. In Wisconsin where I grew up, Thanksgiving week was deer hunting week … period.  I hope this Thanksgiving finds you hunting with family and friends, and relishing the American hunting heritage.

ThermaCELL, popularly known for their mosquito-repelling devices, just released Heated Insoles—another product that might allow hunters to spend more time in the field.

Are you having trouble locating mature bucks? Me too. It’s lockdown time. What, you haven’t heard about the lockdown period of the whitetail rut? It’s the time of November when the majority of does come into heat in the majority of the whitetail nation.

Facebook is the ultimate resource for tracking the whitetail rut in real time.

This is my deer decoy. I love him. Why? The other day I decoyed four different white-tailed bucks within bow range within an hour’s time. Had my shooting been on, I would have been tagged out. But that’s another long, embarrassing story.