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The Range
Ask Petzal • Our legendary rifles editor answers your most pressing questions—like it or not
Things That Go Vroom • Feeling the need for speed, we break down the stats on some of the fastest things in the wild
King Gong • Paul Phillips, reigning champion of the country’s ultimate extreme longrange shooting competition, talks marksmanship, rifles, ammo, and more
Hatch a Plan • Fishing the fall bluewing olive bite can be epic, but only if you show up totally prepared
In the Box • Besides the usual BWO patterns, bring these four ringers.
Performance Anxiety • The truth about classic cartridges
Gearing Up
Bear Medicine • This cutting-edge setup gives you a fighting chance against Ursus arctos horribilis
FIELD TEST
Join the Fold • Whether you’re buying your first folding knife or your fifteenth, you can’t go wrong with these
CAMP
welcome TO camp • Is there any place better than a good hunting camp? It has everything: great food, games and pranks, and of course, hunting. Shoot, we don’t even mind going to camp for grueling work days in the summer. Here, our contributors share their favorite stories, traditions, and lessons learned from camps they’ve shared.
clean YOUR OWN skull
MAKE A deadly BONEYARD
BE THE (garbage) MAN
the art OF puttering
set a kILLER mousetrap
FOLLOW the RULES • Readers share some of their most unbreakable camp commandments
TIPS & LIFE LESSONS
HUNT THE camp CRITTER
beat TARGET panic WITH fruit
GLASS for CARIBOU
the FAMILY drive
teach a KID LESSONS for life
PULL a good PRANK • Readers spill the beans on some of their best camp tricks
GRUB & DRINKS
Kick BACK at HAPPY hour
CRAFT A homemade CHUCK BOX
GET THE good STUFF
a feast FIT FOR a king
get up AND BAKE a mean BISCUIT
PASS the SNACKS • Readers list junk food staples from their camps
TRADITIONS
make a CAMP photo ALBUM
DIBS on the HANGOVER blind
SHARE with the GROUP
passing THE flame
keep EVERYBODY on edge
KEEP it GOING • Readers share their favorite traditions
THE JOURNEY TO PIKE’S PEAK • Last summer, the author and three friends ventured off the grid to are mote fish camp in Canada. They hoped for great fishing, but what they experienced was truly something else
A SHORE THING
HOW ABOUT the TIME? • Remember when the bear broke into camp and stole the booze? Or when Marcel took a picture with the moose? No? Well, pour a drink and pull up a camp chair. It’s story time
BLOOD, SWEAT, AND BEDLAM • A pack of hunters and hounds set out on a frenzied chase in the famed black bear swamps of North Carolina
GIVING UP THE GHOSTS • A QUEST TO SAVE THE FAMILY DEER CAMP COLLAPSES WITH THE HOUSE THAT USED TO HOLD IT
THE DEERSLAYERS • Before you even claim a bunk, you need to eyeball the hardware your buddies have brought. In the process, you’ll see that the guns at deer camp are changing. What was walnut and blued steel may now be Kevlar and carbon fiber. The 10 rifles featured here aren’t your father’s deer guns. They’re today’s new camp classics
THE NEW FACES OF DEER CAMP • ON A MENTORED BOWHUNT DESIGNED TO BRING NEW ADULTS INTO THE FOLD, A DIVERSE GROUP OF FLEDGLING HUNTERS OFFERS A WINDOW INTO OUR SPORT’S FUTURE
CAMPFIRE
Early Birds • Just because the first wood ducks and teal of the season are unpressured doesn’t mean they’re...