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Celebrate Freedom

A picture-perfect hunt for a record-book bull turns out to be a young hunter’s last. Excerpt from Winter 2024 Fair Chase MagazineBy Dan E. SchillingMy story doesn’t involve a once-in-a-lifetime...

The Chronic Incompletion of Bighorn Sheep Restoration

Squeezed by disease events, water scarcity, and agency commitment, wild sheep recovery remains a work in progress. Excerpt from Fair Chase Magazine Summer 2025By Andrew McKean, B&C Professional Me...

As rifle scopes become more complicated, you might be better off sticking to the basicsExcerpt from Fair Chase Magazine Summer 2024By Wayne Van Zwoll, regular contributor, photos courtesy of authorTh...

Lights, Camera, Moose

Using Trail Cameras to Survey Moose Abundance and Calf Recruitment on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and Glacier National Park in MontanaBy Landon Magee, Boone and Crockett Fellow, University of Mo...

Wild Gourmet - Venison Pasty

Recipe from Wild GourmetRecipe Courtesy Chef Daniel NelsonThe migrants of Cornwall spread the Cornish pasty to mining communities across the globe, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is one area whe...

When You’re Thrown A Curve

Traveling HunterBy Craig Boddington, B&C Professional MemberArticle from Summer 2024 issue of Fair ChaseDescribed as a pathological optimist, I always figure the sun will shine, planes and trains...

DIY - Arizona Coues' Deer

North Americans are beyond fortunate in our ability to experience native wildlife and wild places.Excerpt from Winter 2018 Fair Chase MagazineBy Justin Spring, B&C Professional Member, photos cou...

DIY - New Mexico Elk

Passion: a strong and barely controllable emotion.Excerpt from Winter 2020 Fair Chase MagazineBy Kyle Russell photos courtesy of authorIf you know anything about “PA” hunters, you’ll know many of us ...

DIY - Maine Moose

If money and time weren’t an issue, what hunt would you do?Excerpt from Summer 2020 Fair Chase MagazineBy Justin Spring, B&C Professional member, photos courtesy of authorEvery hunter I know has ...

DIY - Canada Moose

It is funny how a hunting season can change course and shape up differently than planned due to circumstances outside of one’s control.Excerpt from Spring 2021 Fair Chase MagazineBy Alexander Sharif,...