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Pistol with a red dot sight and weapon light resting on a fireplace hearth

Trijicon RMR vs SRO: Which Red Dot Sight Is Right for You?

November 1, 2026|Venator staff

Updated October 30, 2026: Added a full spec table with the RMR HD, corrected the RMR and SRO window and weight figures to Trijicon's published specs, and answered the questions...

Ducks massed on a flooded Arkansas rice field, with the headline Private Fields. Public Duck Hunts. on the WRICE draw

Arkansas Rice-Field Duck Hunts: How the WRICE Draw Works and Why Demand Keeps Climbing

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Arkansas is opening about 47 private rice-field and easement locations to public duck hunters through the WRICE weekend draw. How the program works, how many hunters want in, and the...

New York Deer Season: One Doe, Another Buck Tag? cover, with deer in the woods

New York's Earn-a-Second-Buck Rule: What Changes When the Southern Zone Opens Nov. 21

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

New York's Southern Zone regular season opens Nov. 21. New for 2026: shoot and report a doe and you earn a second buck tag, and 23 units now have unlimited...

Texas Duck Season 2026-27: A Mixed Outlook cover, with a Lab beside a row of harvested ducks

Texas Duck Season 2026-27: Dry Ground, Fewer Mallards, More Divers

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

All three zone dates, the full bag composition, and the one line in the 2026 survey nobody is reading: redheads and canvasbacks are well above average.

Pennsylvania Rifle Season: Three Sundays, More Doe Tags cover, with antlerless deer

Pennsylvania Rifle Season 2026: Three Sundays, 1.47 Million Antlerless Tags and a CWD Rule Change

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Pennsylvania's rifle deer season opens Nov. 28 and runs through Dec. 13 with every Sunday open for the first time. Here's what changed, what didn't, and what the orange rule...

Wisconsin Deer Season: CWD Reaches Marinette County cover, with a whitetail buck in the snow

CWD Reaches Marinette County: The Baiting Ban and the Nov. 21 Gun Opener

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Wisconsin confirmed its first wild-deer CWD case in Marinette County four weeks before the gun opener. Here is what the detection changes, what it does not, and how to handle...

Public Land, Lasting Decisions graphic with an elk by a mountain river

The Senate Permitting Bill and Your Public Land: What Hunters Should Know Before the November Vote

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

A bipartisan Senate permitting package is headed for a floor vote in November. Here is what it changes, why hunting groups are split on it, and the separate BLM program...

Cartoon of a warden escorting nonresident duck hunters off public land at 1 PM in Kansas

Kansas Tells Nonresident Duck Hunters to Be Off Public Land by 1 PM

October 28, 2026|Venator Hunting

New for fall 2026: nonresident waterfowlers on KDWP lands must quit before noon and be gone by 1 p.m. What the rule covers, what it exempts, and the argument on...

How-To & Skills

Women's Hunting Jackets for Late-Season Deer: Kylie vs Ella vs Addie vs Breanna

November 2, 2026|Venator staff

Four DSG Outerwear pieces for women who hunt cold, compared by job: blaze gun seasons, quiet late-season sits, a first insulated coat and a go-to mid layer.

Five straight-wall cartridges standing in front of a shed antler

Tennessee's New Straight-Wall Rifle Season Opens Nov. 14: The Single-Shot Rule, the Ballistics, and the Scope That Fits

November 1, 2026|Venator Hunting

Tennessee's new straight-wall cartridge season runs Nov. 14-20 on private land, single-shot only. The rule that trips people up, the 200-yard numbers, and how to pick a low-power scope for...

Angler kneeling in a grassy river bottom holding a big brown trout, Idaho

Idaho's Brown Trout Record Fell Twice in Three Months. Here's How to Fish Big Browns in the Fall

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Idaho's catch-and-release brown trout record was broken in May on the South Fork Snake, then broken again in August on the Bear River. What that says about big-trout water, and...

Angler holding a big channel catfish on his shoulder below a river bridge in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania's New Record Channel Catfish, and How to Fish Below Locks and Dams This Fall

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

A 36-pound, 2-ounce channel cat from below an Allegheny River lock and dam just broke a 35-year-old Pennsylvania record. Why tailwaters hold big cats in the fall, and how to...

Lever Guns Are Back graphic with a modern lever-action rifle

Lever Guns for Deer in 2026: Marlin's 10mm Trapper, the 1854 Stealth Hunter and What to Put on Top

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Marlin put the 1894 Trapper in 10mm Auto, Smith & Wesson added a .45-70 Stealth Hunter, and ammo makers are building lever-gun loads again. Which lever gun fits which deer...

New Deer Ammo: The 2026 Lineup graphic showing boxes of Hornady, Nosler, Barnes and Federal ammo

New Whitetail Factory Loads for 2026, Compared on the Makers' Own Numbers

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Hornady, Nosler, Barnes and Federal all added deer loads for 2026. What each line actually is, Hornady's published velocities for American Whitetail Tipped, and why the box number is not...

Hunter in a blaze orange fleece jacket and cap adjusting his sunglasses in the mountains

Blaze Orange Requirements by State for the 2026 Gun Openers (and Whether Orange Camo Counts)

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

How much blaze orange you need ranges from a cap and vest to 500 square inches depending on the state, and orange camo is legal in some and not others....

Bowhunter in camo standing in a climbing tree stand during an all-day rut sit

The All-Day Rut Sit: Why Midday Works in November and How to Last 10 Hours on Stand

October 28, 2026|Venator Hunting

For about two weeks in November, the hours between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. stop being dead time. Why bucks move midday during the rut, where to sit for it,...

Women's Hunting Jackets for Late-Season Deer: Kylie vs Ella vs Addie vs Breanna

November 2, 2026|Venator staff

Four DSG Outerwear pieces for women who hunt cold, compared by job: blaze gun seasons, quiet late-season sits, a first insulated coat and a go-to mid layer.

Tennessee's New Straight-Wall Rifle Season Opens Nov. 14: The Single-Shot Rule, the Ballistics, and the Scope That Fits

November 1, 2026|Venator Hunting

Tennessee's new straight-wall cartridge season runs Nov. 14-20 on private land, single-shot only. The rule that trips people up, the 200-yard numbers, and how to pick a low-power scope for...

Idaho's Brown Trout Record Fell Twice in Three Months. Here's How to Fish Big Browns in the Fall

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Idaho's catch-and-release brown trout record was broken in May on the South Fork Snake, then broken again in August on the Bear River. What that says about big-trout water, and...

Pennsylvania's New Record Channel Catfish, and How to Fish Below Locks and Dams This Fall

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

A 36-pound, 2-ounce channel cat from below an Allegheny River lock and dam just broke a 35-year-old Pennsylvania record. Why tailwaters hold big cats in the fall, and how to...

Lever Guns for Deer in 2026: Marlin's 10mm Trapper, the 1854 Stealth Hunter and What to Put on Top

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Marlin put the 1894 Trapper in 10mm Auto, Smith & Wesson added a .45-70 Stealth Hunter, and ammo makers are building lever-gun loads again. Which lever gun fits which deer...

New Whitetail Factory Loads for 2026, Compared on the Makers' Own Numbers

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

Hornady, Nosler, Barnes and Federal all added deer loads for 2026. What each line actually is, Hornady's published velocities for American Whitetail Tipped, and why the box number is not...

Blaze Orange Requirements by State for the 2026 Gun Openers (and Whether Orange Camo Counts)

October 30, 2026|Venator Hunting

How much blaze orange you need ranges from a cap and vest to 500 square inches depending on the state, and orange camo is legal in some and not others....

The All-Day Rut Sit: Why Midday Works in November and How to Last 10 Hours on Stand

October 28, 2026|Venator Hunting

For about two weeks in November, the hours between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. stop being dead time. Why bucks move midday during the rut, where to sit for it,...