Game And Fish Magazine

3 days ago | gameandfishmag.com | Adam Heggenstaller

The same qualities that endear lever-action rifles to whitetail hunters make rimfire versions of lever guns favored for small game. Lever-action rimfires are wonderful to carry, come nimbly to the shoulder and cycle quickly for follow-up shots. Opportunities at stationary squirrels and rabbits are often fleeting, and a rifle that gets on target immediately will help put skittish game in the bag.

3 weeks ago | gameandfishmag.com | Lynn Burkhead

If you love crappie, then you're in luck because there is little doubt that these succulent papermouths can be found in numerous hotspots all across the country. In fact, if bass are king and bluegills are princes, then the crappie fits somewhere in between due to the numerous spots nationwide where they're plentiful (numbers) and true blue whoppers (2-3 pounds), giving U.S. anglers the best of both worlds in many places between the Mexico/U.S. and Canada/U.S. borders.

1 month ago | gameandfishmag.com | David Brown

Blake Dyer calls March 7, 2024, his son Brock's birthdate, the biggest day of his life. Close second: September 28, 2019. That's when Dyer won the FLW Costa Series tournament on his beloved California Delta home waters. He did so by fishing what he considers one of the most dependable bass habitats. "Riprap was definitely the key to my success in that tournament. Especially on the Delta, it's something I'm always going to fish," says Dyer, who makes his home in Discovery Bay, Calif.

1 month ago | gameandfishmag.com | Craig Boddington

Our unique and successful North American Model of Wildlife Conservation gives us access to millions of acres of public hunting land. Many Americans don't need to own land or travel to have a good place to hunt. Culturally, this is why many of us do most of our hunting close to home for locally available game. Whether mule deer in the West or whitetails everywhere else, we take fall deer hunting for granted.

1 month ago | gameandfishmag.com | Andrew McKean

I vividly recall the first time I saw a thermal device used in the field. I was on an outfitted Utah elk hunt, and as we were driving two-track mountain roads back to the lodge after an unsuccessful all-day hunt, my guide stopped in the dark. He killed the headlights, pulled out a thermal viewer and grinned. "This is gonna tell us where we hunt in the morning," he said. As he scanned a mountainside meadow with the digital device, dozens of grazing elk glowed like ghosts on the screen.