Field & Stream

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Field & Stream

EDITOR’S PAGE

CONTRIBUTORS

The Range

Ask Petzal • Our legendary rifles editor answers your most pressing questions—like it or not

Things That Go Vroom • Feeling the need for speed, we break down the stats on some of the fastest things in the wild

King Gong • Paul Phillips, reigning champion of the country’s ultimate extreme longrange shooting competition, talks marksmanship, rifles, ammo, and more

Hatch a Plan • Fishing the fall bluewing olive bite can be epic, but only if you show up totally prepared

In the Box • Besides the usual BWO patterns, bring these four ringers.

Performance Anxiety • The truth about classic cartridges

Gearing Up

Bear Medicine • This cutting-edge setup gives you a fighting chance against Ursus arctos horribilis

FIELD TEST

Join the Fold • Whether you’re buying your first folding knife or your fifteenth, you can’t go wrong with these

CAMP

welcome TO camp • Is there any place better than a good hunting camp? It has everything: great food, games and pranks, and of course, hunting. Shoot, we don’t even mind going to camp for grueling work days in the summer. Here, our contributors share their favorite stories, traditions, and lessons learned from camps they’ve shared.

clean YOUR OWN skull

MAKE A deadly BONEYARD

BE THE (garbage) MAN

the art OF puttering

set a kILLER mousetrap

FOLLOW the RULES • Readers share some of their most unbreakable camp commandments

TIPS & LIFE LESSONS

HUNT THE camp CRITTER

beat TARGET panic WITH fruit

GLASS for CARIBOU

the FAMILY drive

teach a KID LESSONS for life

PULL a good PRANK • Readers spill the beans on some of their best camp tricks

GRUB & DRINKS

Kick BACK at HAPPY hour

CRAFT A homemade CHUCK BOX

GET THE good STUFF

a feast FIT FOR a king

get up AND BAKE a mean BISCUIT

PASS the SNACKS • Readers list junk food staples from their camps

TRADITIONS

make a CAMP photo ALBUM

DIBS on the HANGOVER blind

SHARE with the GROUP

passing THE flame

keep EVERYBODY on edge

KEEP it GOING • Readers share their favorite traditions

THE JOURNEY TO PIKE’S PEAK • Last summer, the author and three friends ventured off the grid to are mote fish camp in Canada. They hoped for great fishing, but what they experienced was truly something else

A SHORE THING

HOW ABOUT the TIME? • Remember when the bear broke into camp and stole the booze? Or when Marcel took a picture with the moose? No? Well, pour a drink and pull up a camp chair. It’s story time

BLOOD, SWEAT, AND BEDLAM • A pack of hunters and hounds set out on a frenzied chase in the famed black bear swamps of North Carolina

GIVING UP THE GHOSTS • A QUEST TO SAVE THE FAMILY DEER CAMP COLLAPSES WITH THE HOUSE THAT USED TO HOLD IT

THE DEERSLAYERS • Before you even claim a bunk, you need to eyeball the hardware your buddies have brought. In the process, you’ll see that the guns at deer camp are changing. What was walnut and blued steel may now be Kevlar and carbon fiber. The 10 rifles featured here aren’t your father’s deer guns. They’re today’s new camp classics

THE NEW FACES OF DEER CAMP • ON A MENTORED BOWHUNT DESIGNED TO BRING NEW ADULTS INTO THE FOLD, A DIVERSE GROUP OF FLEDGLING HUNTERS OFFERS A WINDOW INTO OUR SPORT’S FUTURE

CAMPFIRE

Early Birds • Just because the first wood ducks and teal of the season are unpressured doesn’t mean they’re...