No other pistol design has been copied as often or customized as much as the 1911. One popular customization has been the addition of a longer slide and barrel, and that’s the approach Dan Wesson took with the Kodiak, which has a 6-inch, match-grade barrel and a slide to match. However, unlike most conventional 1911 pistols that have a barrel bushing, the Kodiak uses a coned barrel that mates directly to the slide.

Drop a “KODIAk” for the full review of their newest model by Field & Stream Shooting Editor Richard Mann. Fun fact: Mann also deemed this semi-auto pistol the best hunting handgun of the year. ...

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The Smithsonian hung James Prosek’s paintings and Field & Stream told the story behind them.

In April 2002, Dave Hurteau devoted eight pages to a feature titled “America’s Fish” featuring Prosek’s trout paintings in The Book of Trout. The Field & Stream feature highlighted Prosek’s illustrations to trace the history of America’s favorite gamefish. By then, Prosek had already painted all 70 native and introduced trout forms for Trout: An Illustrated History, the landmark book that earned him comparisons to John James Audubon while he was still a teenager.

Tell us your favorite river, stream, or trout species. ...

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Some bucks are almost too perfect. These aren’t those deer. These archival photos capture some of the biggest and most legendary non typical bucks ever entered into the record books.

Old School Sunday // presented by @yuenglingbeer ...

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Mature bucks notice everything.

He built a rule book for beating mature bucks. This is one of the rules. After years of chasing pressured whitetails, Michigan hunter Adam Lewis put his scouting philosophy into nine hard rules. One of them starts before the camera ever goes on a tree: kill the shine, break up the outline, and give a mature buck one less reason to know you’ve been there.

For this test, Lewis is running the new Moultrie EDGE 4. This is just one rule from Lewis’s Trail Cam Clinic. We’ll be sharing more throughout the season. In the meantime, drop an “EDGE” comment & we’ll DM you the full Buck Trail Clinic by Adam Lewis. ...

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A lifetime of alpine fishing boiled down to one pack…everything else stays in the truck.

Story by Sage Marshall @sagemwrites
Photos by Jackson Mills Smith @muggybrew ...

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A golden walleye isn’t a separate species. It’s an ordinary walleye with a genetic condition known as xanthism. This rare pigment mutation reduces the typical dark coloration and leaves the fish glowing with shades of yellow and gold.

Most anglers will spend a lifetime on the water without ever seeing one. That’s why this story stands out...

Two North Dakota anglers caught what appears to be the very same golden walleye just eight days apart.

Full story by @travishallmedia feat. @ethanoutdoors & @jacob.t.wendel 🤝 ...

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People argued over what they would’ve done. The guy bleeding had a different POV.

A lot of people looked at these photos and started arguing about tourniquets but the backcountry camper at the center of the story had a different takeaway. He’d spent 20 years working in emergency veterinary medicine. He carried a trauma kit with a tourniquet, combat gauze, and everything he thought he’d need if the worst ever happened. Then one night, while splitting kindling with a brand new hatchet, he shifted his stance for a single swing. The blade glanced off the log and buried itself in his knee.

He was roughly three hours from the nearest ER. He pressure bandaged the wound, packed up camp, loaded his dog, and started driving. Halfway home he clipped an elk. Somewhere along the drive, his bandage slipped without him realizing it. By the time he reached home, he said he’d lost nearly two pints of blood.

After sharing his series of unfortunate events with fellow bush survivalists, his community turned to debate over what he should have done differently.

Hindsight is easy when you’re not the one bleeding.
Story and photos via r/Bushcraft (U/dukeshootrio). ...

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What makes a good deer shot?

That was the question behind a Field & Stream experiment designed to discover where even the best riflemen reach their limits. In “The Science of Shooting Deer,” David E. Petzal, Craig Boddington, Layne Simpson, and Wayne van Zwoll met at Kenny Jarrett’s range with ordinary deer rifles and one simple objective: find out what good shooting really looks like. They built four tests around the shots hunters argue about every fall.

✅ Long Range: How much farther can you really stretch a shot before the odds turn against you?

✅ Tower Shot: Does climbing into a stand actually make you steadier?

✅ Snap Shot: What happens when a buck gives you only a second?

✅Running Deer: Can even seasoned riflemen make a moving shot they can live with?

They hit plenty. They missed some, too. That was the whole point. Wind beat them. Distance exposed them. The timer rushed them. And every event reminded them that experience doesn’t erase your limitations.

More than twenty years later, “The Science of Shooting Deer” still feels as honest as the day it was printed. Not because four great gun writers proved how good they were, but because they were willing to find out where they weren’t.

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A proposed rule change could remove federal protections for millions of acres of wetlands across the Prairie Pothole Region, one of North America’s most important waterfowl habitats. Known as “America’s Duck Factory,” these wetlands provide critical nesting grounds for ducks and support countless other species across the Great Plains.

Drop a “Duck” comment & we’ll DM you the 🔗 to submit a public comment. Story by @travishallmedia ...

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Every duck hunter has that one story they come back to before the season starts. This is one of ours.

After disappearing for decades, Nash Buckingham’s legendary shotgun, Bo Whoop, made one final trip back to the Mississippi duck woods that built its legend. It’s a story about great guns, great camps, and why waterfowl traditions have a way of outliving the people who started them.

Drop WHOOP in the comments and we’ll DM you the full story by @willbrantleyky with photography by @nathanielwelch . ...

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