The best surf rods for beach fishing in are the blanks that can throw a chunked bait rig or a 3 oz plug past the breakers and still be there next season. Our top pick is the Fiblink Surf Casting 2-Piece Graphite Rod, a 10 foot medium-heavy conventional rated to 5 oz for striped bass, […]

Choosing the best rifle scopes for elk hunting is mostly about restraint. Elk are large animals that show up at 60 yards in spruce timber and at 900 yards across a blown-out basin, and the constant temptation is to buy glass built for the second scenario and hope it works for the first. After a […]

The best compound bows for women are the ones with a short, wide-open adjustability range on both draw length and draw weight, because fit decides whether a bow feels effortless or impossible. The cams do the heavy lifting, so you pull a light weight to full draw and hold very little at the anchor. Color […]

Short answer: the GardePro E6 2.0 WiFi is the best trail camera for deer hunting in , because it pairs a 0.3-second trigger with 940nm no-glow infrared and lets you aim and pull photos over its own WiFi without removing the SD card. The GardePro A3S is the runner-up when night image quality matters most, […]

The best spotting scope for long range shooting is the Athlon Talos 20-60x80. It pairs an 80mm objective with fully multi-coated lenses and nitrogen purging at a 4.6 rating across more than 500 reviews, which makes it a budget-tier glass that holds contrast well past 500 yards instead of falling apart above 40x. I have […]

Every deer season, the same thing trips people up: a crossbow that felt great in the parking lot turns into a 30-pound annoyance by week three, or a bow that seemed fine quietly shoots low at 40 yards. After working through ten models, spec sheets, and thousands of owner reviews, the Barnett Whitetail Series STR […]

Most deer hunting fails long before the shot. A buck at 60 yards sees the vertical shape of a person against a treeline, and that is all it takes to turn a promising morning into a walk home. A blind solves one problem at a time: it breaks your outline, dulls the movement of your […]

Cold feet end hunts early. Ask any deer hunter why they cut a sit short and the answer is rarely wind, boredom or a hard ladder. It is the numb, wet feeling in your boots at hour two, and it is the single most common reason people walk out of timber they had permission to […]

After a season of putting twelve rangefinders through dawn glassing sessions, timed scans and wet-weather tree stand mornings, the AOFAR HX-700N is the unit I keep in my own pack. It carries a 6x optic, holds readings within about a yard and weighs 180 g, which is the whole argument for buying a hunting rangefinder […]

An elk pack is not a hiking backpack with a camo pattern on it. Six weeks ago we started putting ten of them side by side, loaded each one with camp gear, then with butchered quarters, and walked until we knew exactly which ones would still be comfortable on the fourth trip out of a […]