There’s nothing anglers look forward to more than spring. After being locked in the cold, dark cage of winter for months, being out on the open water and casting a line in the sun almost feels like a personal revival. Rods in hand, we head out to our favorite waters to chase everything from trout...

The Oklahoma state legislature is rapidly advancing a first-in-the-nation bill that would allow captive-raised whitetail deer to be released onto the landscape if they possess CWD-resistant genetic markers. Dubbed the “Chronic Wasting Disease Genetic Improvement Act” (HB 3462), the measure received...

Few things rival the sense of accomplishment that accompanies killing your first turkey. This is especially true if you commit a few seasons’ worth of blunders along the way. The season I killed my first bird, I managed to miss or spook a legion of turkeys all in the first two weeks. I put on a...

Elk are the largest animals most American hunters will ever have a chance to harvest. For that reason, once a hunter is ready to step up from whitetail deer to elk, the first question they ask is: do I have enough gun to get the job done? We’re here to help you answer that question. The MeatEater...

A short article has been making the rounds on the news and social media claiming a possible link between eating CWD-infected meat and two men who died of Cruetzfeldt-Jakobs disease (CJD). It’s unclear, however, whether this potential link should worry hunters or if CWD was responsible at all. First...

UPDATE: On April 18, 2024, the BLM officially finalized the Public Lands Rule. Click here to view the press release. And for more information on the conservation leases involved with this rule, check out Jordan Sillars' previous article here. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed a new...

The director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said that hunters and other public land users won’t be barred from public land managed under the agency’s controversial new “conservation lease” program. “Let me be hyper-clear right off the top: these leases would not shut down public access...

Any time spent in the woods is valuable, but let's talk about the target goal of shed antlers. Days filled with work meetings aren't always a lost cause. A few short minutes could be all you need to grab a few antlers this spring. Shed hunting doesn't always need to take place where you want to hunt...