Bethany Beathard is an outdoor writer and content creator. She is an avid sportswoman who is passionate about conservation and hunting. She grew up on 55 acres in rural Oklahoma, with a family who ...

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Besides your shotgun, duck hunting waders are arguably the most important piece of equipment a waterfowl hunter will own. Waterfowl habitat is a nasty place for gear and your waders will take a ...

Trained as a high school English teacher and coach, Scott Bestul left that lucrative field to pursue another—as a full-time freelance writer in 1990. He sold his first story to Field & Stream a ...

Phil Bourjaily sold his very first outdoor story—a feature about snipe hunting—to Field & Stream in 1987. He became the brand’s Midwest regional editor in 1995, and the shotgun columnist ...

Of all the Black Friday sales, the ones we get most excited about are the discounts on firearms. Handguns, rifles, shotguns—all of the above are always majorly marked down at the end of the year.

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The best bass lure can spark heated debates among anglers. Some fishermen like spinnerbaits more than jerkbaits and others prefer topwater over soft plastics. In reality, it is difficult to say ...