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Pushing the limits of what’s possible in technical hunting gear is, and always will be, our core mission. But part of the essence of SITKA is in the people who test, abuse and demand the best from it in the real world: our Athletes.

That mule deer in your yard might be 250 miles away by winter. This herd set one of the longest migrations on record.

Only two of eighteen grad students had ever worn waders. See how Five Oaks is closing that gap in the Mississippi Delta.

TRCP found 16 million acres of public land locked away with no way in. Here's how they're opening it back up.

See how Connor Gabbott friends floated past a sleeping grizzly, got charged by another, and portaged gear for 100+ miles.

Turkey hunter Rob Ramsdale killed a 24-pound gobbler in a downpour. Here's the scouting trick that made it happen.

A transplanted fish hatchery worker traded New York for Sitka's blacktail and world-class steelhead, and never looked back.

Guide Lee Hart has 99 sheep hunts behind him at 85. His mentee drew the tag in Lee's unit and asked him along for the 100th.

Randy Newberg and Corey Jacobsen break down the 5 mistakes costing hunters their best shot at a bull.

A Father's Day tribute to the Pennsylvania hunter who taught his son that the woods reward patience more than luck.

Painter Jess Mudgett drove into the sagebrush to finally paint the mural he had promised an old friend years ago.

Watch a traditional bowhunter close to 30 yards on a Dall sheep in the Alaskan backcountry, about as tough as it gets.

Ali Rione covered 150 miles over 12 days in British Columbia. Her Stone's sheep didn't show up until the last day.

Late season doesn't mean game over. Get the food, pressure, and patience strategy for catching a mature buck in the cold.

After a decade of tagging along on other people's hunts, she drew a bison tag and made her first solo shot at 40.

Rachel Ahtila spent years guiding others to their Dall sheep. For her first, she chose to bring her father instead.

Join Adam Foss and crew for weeks deep in British Columbia's backcountry, living with nothing but the gear on their backs.

SITKA ambassadors share their worst-weather hunts, from a -22F Iowa treestand to a snowstorm packing out two Stone's sheep.

Five trips into B.C.'s brutal winter goat country, with a sixth already calling. One hunter on why the misery pulls him back.

After a decade chasing greenheads in flooded timber, an Arkansas hunter swapped waders for bibs and found snow geese.

Low deer numbers, thick cover, and swirling winds make Appalachia's big woods some of the toughest whitetail country.

Two seasons chasing one buck came down to reading thermals. Learn how wind direction and rising morning air sealed the shot.

Steven Drake shares his shed hunting playbook: where bulls winter, how many miles to expect, and when to start.

Wild turkey poults get 90% of protein from insects that show up after prescribed fire. See how Michigan brings them back.

Short on confidence and out of shape, a hunter postholes through deep snow on a late-season Utah elk hunt to prove himself.

Slopes steeper than 30 degrees are avalanche country. Learn to read the terrain and what rescue gear to carry.

Antelope hunts mean full-day stalks in 90-degree heat. Steven Drake shares five tips to stay hydrated and save your meat.

A last-day scramble up a boulder field closed out Cam's 20-year quest to bow-hunt all four North American sheep species.

A Wall Street financier leaves the office, boards the subway, and climbs a treestand overlooking Manhattan for trophy bucks.

Know the terrain, find barriers of entry, and stay mobile. Three scouting habits that put a buck in range on opening day.

Mule deer numbers are down 30% since 1970. SITKA-funded researchers are tracking migration corridors to find out why.

Ditch your boots, widen your stance, learn to freeze on cue: 5 tactics for closing the last 50 yards undetected.

Outdoor Life once called him the world's best sheep guide. Dustin Roe explains why 134 hunts in, it was never about the ram.

A turkey fanatic shares his scouting routine, plus why a Canada goose call locates more gobblers than an owl hooter.

Charley Perkins says nothing beats watching a kid experience a hunting 'first.' See his family's holiday tradition.

A #DIVERGE8 judge breaks down three habits, from composition to timing, that separate a snapshot from a photo worth framing.

Photographer Jay Beyer explains how cutting the horizon from a frame, or leaning into it, can make a hunting photo feel wild.

From -47F geese in Montana to -20F whitetails in Alberta, SITKA ambassadors share the coldest hunts they've ever endured.

A public land elk hunter breaks his rifle season into opening weekend and post-opening strategies built around pressure.

A hunter chases a bull moose on horseback through the BC bush, channeling the Jack London stories that shaped his childhood.

Learn to read a map for the terrain funnels, where edge habitat meets changes in topography, that put mature bucks in range.

A decade of bowhunting elk taught this hunter to stalk in socks, skip the calling, and shadow the herd bull instead.

Alligators, hurricanes, chest-deep water: SITKA ambassadors field-test gear chasing Seminole whitetails in the Everglades.

Only 10% of Western elk hunters fill a tag each year. A SEAL-trained coach shares the 30-day challenge that closes the gap.

Corrupt outfitters and poachers: one bowhunter's account of chasing Marco Polo sheep through Tajikistan's Pamir Mountains.

A hunter who once burned 6,000 calories a day on just 2,000 breaks down how to build a nutrition plan that beats the wall.

Two Southern hunters cover 3,319 miles across four states chasing ducks.

New Zealand's waterfowl barely migrate, making decoy spreads and calling different from what U.S. hunters are used to.