Hunting

Some hunters want a dedicated rifle for every purpose. Others say they prefer a single gun that can do just about anything. Most of us land somewhere in the middle, but Remington was aiming for the one-gun crowd when it released the .22 Accelerator in 1977. The .22 Accelerator stuffed a 55-grain...

By late June, the Gnome had grown bored of the small fish he was catching. He had a successful spring season and caught and cooked his fill of the local fare—he’d smoked spry trout, fried fat panfish, boiled mudbugs, and even pickled some suckers—but he was hungry for something more. So, as the...

If you’ve been around dog trainers long enough, you’ve no doubt heard the expression, “You have to put a good foundation on the pup!” or something along those lines. Trainers love to talk about how building a strong foundation makes future training easier. While I completely agree with the premise...

I have a love-hate relationship with my reloading press. Reloading ammunition is both fun and frustrating; relaxing and anxiety-producing; money-saving and money-wasting. It’s a hobby I’ve been obsessed with and wondered whether I’ll ever pick up again. I’m probably being dramatic, but the...

Whether you have a retriever puppy you’re hoping will bring you a decade’s worth of greenhead limits, or a ride-or-die mutt that will spend the summers at the lake with you, getting a dog comfortable with boats can be an interesting experience. You could take some puppies on a speedboat when they...

How far is too far to take an ethical shot on an animal? However you answer that question, some in Wyoming are calling on lawmakers to step in and decide. Long-distance hunting has become more and more popular over the past several years, and MeatEater has lots of coverage about squeezing the most...

There’s never been a better time to take a suppressor into the field. Forty-one states have legalized hunting with a suppressor, and outfits like Silencer Central have streamlined and simplified the purchasing process. What’s more, the ATF got its act together last year and dramatically reduced the...

We spent last weekend on a lake that offers up pretty good largemouth and smallmouth fishing. One of my daughters asked to go catch smallies, so we did. We tossed swimbaits, topwaters, and drop-shots. We caught a pile of bronzers, including a couple that taped out past the magical 20-inch mark. She...

Our F*cked Up series of calendars is back for 2026, but this year we decided to do things a little differently. Over the last couple months, we’ve received hundreds of photos of the most f*cked up hunting trucks around the world. We’ve narrowed it down to 24 of our favorites, but this time, it’s up...

Thirty-two percent of Americans own a firearm, which if my math is correct, means 68% of them don’t. That’s 231 million people who might wake up tomorrow and think to themselves, “I’d like to purchase a gun.” They might have this epiphany because they’re worried about guns being banned or criminals...

Every bird dog I’ve owned has been the best dog I’ll ever own, until I got my next one. In that regard, I’m a pretty standard dog owner. Our biases toward our current dogs rival maybe only our political identities, or in some cases, our allegiance to professional sports teams. It feels impossible...

Just a few hours before the U.S. House passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful budget bill,” Republican leadership added an amendment to the package that would remove suppressors from the National Firearms Act. Doing so would eliminate the $200 tax on suppressors as well as the onerous approval...