Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. There’s not much difference between a knowledgeable teal hunter and an opportunistic one. You actually have to be a bit of both when hunting blue-wings during the early September season. Once you find the teal and pound on them, they are going to seek refuge like any other duck. But if you do find them again, you’re almost assured a good hunt. Teal aren’t wary birds. They love spinning-wing decoys more than a country boy loves Hank Williams. Consistently locating teal is the key. Over…

If you’ve been hanging around gun shops recently and overhearing the conversations of the cognoscenti, you might well get the notion that someone turned the clock back a hundred years or so. After a century of determined design and development of speedier cartridges and racier rifles to fire them, there is now a resurgence of interest in cartridges that were, or might have been, right at home on the pages of an 1890 gun catalog.We shooters and hunters tend to be romantically inclined and give up our traditions at about the same pace as stones rolling uphill. This explains why…

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Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. Most deer hunters dream about one day tagging a drop tine deer—one of those bucks with a point (or several points) dropping down from the main beam. That’s why we’re sharing these photos and stories of huge drop tine bucks courtesy of Antlers by Klaus — they’re whitetails with some of the most unique racks ever grown. Some of these bucks come with incredible stories. Others are more about the visual appeal of the drop tine rack…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. The rivers, marshes, and bayous in the Pascagoula River region of south Mississippi are vast and full of fish and game — including alligators. Ryan Ceccorulli had drawn an alligator tag for that area near his home in Biloxi. This allowed Ryan and his party to harvest one alligator under 7 feet long, plus a second gator as large as they could find. On Aug. 30, the first night hunting in their 17-foot aluminum boat, the Ceccorulli family located a “smallish” gator with forward-facing sonar…

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Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics When Mother Nature opens the north door to fall breezes that cool shoreline waters, bass in impoundments move to warmer habitats in coves and creeks, and into the backs of bays. These migrations are tied to the fall movements of their critter menu, which consists mostly of shad, crayfish and minnows of various types. As the chilled surface water becomes heavier and sinks, the warmer water moves up in the water column, attracting forage fish to shallower, warmer areas where they can still feed on algae…

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