This story, “Gadabout Gobblers,” appeared in the May 1950 issue of Outdoor Life. An Indian summer mellowed the high country of southwestern New Mexico. The air was still, bracing; pungent with the ...

Types of shotguns are classified by their action, which is their operating system, so to speak, and by their gauge, an archaic measure of caliber. Each action type and gauge has its advantages and ...

Reader JD asks: “My 65-year-old arthritic mother who is a cancer survivor wants to go turkey hunting, and I want to help her as she got me into the outdoors as a youth. She has a 12-gauge Winchester ...

The Beck clan, brothers Don and Paul and most of Paul’s kids made up the bulk of the group. As I talked with my brother the other evening, he reminded me that the first advice I gave him when he began ...

Some 60,000 turkey hunters are expected to head out into farms, fields and woods across Minnesota starting this week in the hopes of hearing the scratchy, echoing cry of a tom and calling one in.

I knew we were reaching the breaking point. Sitting at the base of a huge white oak tree, we were dealing with a stubborn ol' gobbler that I knew was not going to show himself, or at least not right ...