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Hunting is a popular outdoor activity, with millions of new sportsmen joining its ranks every year. Some people hunt for sustenance, while others pursue game for sport. Either way, many aspiring hunters sometimes find it difficult to break into the pastime, especially if there’s no one to point them in the right direction.
Everyone on the Boyds team believes in giving new hunters a fair shot. With that in mind, we crafted the following compilation of tips and advice for novice outdoorsmen or those otherwise new to the sport. Want to know how to get a hunting license? It’s here. Curious about selecting the right firearm? We got you covered. A bit confused about hunting seasons and where to find a good guide? No problem.
The .30-06 Springfield remains one of America's most trusted hunting cartridges. This trajectory chart shows the classic 180-grain load at 2,700 fps with a 100-yard zero, giving you solid data from the muzzle out to 500 yards - perfect for everything from whitetail to elk hunting distances.
Our calculator lets you customize the trajectory for your specific load and conditions. Click "Modify Calculation" below to input your exact bullet weight and velocity. You can adjust for shooting angle, wind conditions, and environmental factors to match your hunting scenario or range session.
The question “How far does a 30-06 bullet travel?” can be answered directly: Under ideal conditions, a 30-06 bullet can travel over 5,000 yards (approximately 2.84 miles). However, the effective range and lethal range are significantly less. //
The 30-06 bullet drop at 500 yards depends on several factors. These include bullet weight, muzzle velocity, and ballistic coefficient. It is often between 30-50 inches.
Outdoor Life shooting editor Jim Carmichael also found that sabots tended to group tighter than rifled slugs during a comprehensive slug test in 2008. Carmichael tested 27 different slugs, firing over 1,000 rounds from a 50-pound remote-operated slug gun. The best three-shot rifled slug group at 100 yards was 6.819 inches from a trio of 2¾-inch 20-gauge Winchester rounds. The best sabot group came from a 2¾-inch 12-gauge Lightfield load and measured only 2.062 inches–over three times tighter than the rifled slug. //
Deciding which load to buy depends on where you hunt and how much money you want to spend—a box of five sabots can cost more than $20, while rifled slugs go for as cheap as $6. If you keep shots inside 100 yards, there is only a slight advantage in shooting a sabot in terms of drop and energy on target. But push that range just 25 more yards, and the sabot begins to separate itself from the rifled slug.
Depending on the load, a .30-06 has a power factor of about 400, but 12-gauge slugs can reach the 700s with ease.
If you really want to put the hurt on something, like a big critter, a 12-gauge slug does that. And here I will be speaking only of the 12-gauge variety, because while the 20 can come close, the rest … meh. The 16-gauge is so rare that it might not even exist, and 28 and .410 slugs are pointless.
When Congress passed the Pittman–Robertson Act of 1947, it did something rare: it trusted ordinary citizens more than bureaucrats.
Hunters agreed to tax themselves—an excise on firearms, ammunition, and archery gear—to restore the nation’s wildlife. Every box of shells, every rifle sale, sent dollars straight to state conservation agencies. No congressional earmarks, no political games.
By the 1950s, millions of GIs returned home with a love for the outdoors and a war-forged respect for rifles.
White Tailed Deer are polyestrous, which means females can be in heat more than once per year. In the most northern reaches of the whitetail range (United States into Canada), females go into heat during November and lasts over 24-hour cycles. However, the whole whitetail mating season is from October to December.
With prevalence rates soaring in areas of Wisconsin and mountain states of Wyoming and Colorado, it’s safe to say consumption of CWD meat has happened. Bryan Richards claims “It’s very clear humans are exposed to disease associated prion protein from CWD, whether that will result in transmission of disease across the species barrier is an open question, we absolutely cannot say it will, we absolutely cannot say it won’t.” The human TSE form is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and has been contracted by humans eating cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE, or mad cow disease.
Like Richards stated, we cannot rule out that CWD can be transmitted to humans, but no stories of human health issues tied to venison consumption have held up under scrutiny.
In May 2025, the European Parliament changed the status of wolves in the EU from “strictly protected” to “protected,” which opened the way for its member states to allow hunting under certain conditions, such as protecting livestock. One of the arguments behind this change was that the “tolerance of modern society towards wolves” led to the emergence of “fearless wolves” that are no longer afraid of people.
“Regulators made it clear, though, that there is no scientific evidence to back this up,” says Michael Clinchy, a zoologist at Western University in London, Canada. “So we did the first-of-its-kind study to find out if wolves have really lost their fear of humans. We proved there is no such thing as a fearless wolf.” //
To figure out if wolves really were no longer afraid of humans, Zanette, Clinchy, and their colleagues set up 24 camera traps in the Tuchola Forest. //
When sensors in the traps detected an animal nearby, the system took a photo and played one of three sounds, chosen at random.
The first sound was chirping birds, which the team used as a control. “We chose birds because this is a typical part of forest soundscape and we assumed wolves would not find this threatening,” Clinchy says. The next sound was barking dogs. The team picked this one because a dog is another large carnivore living in the same ecosystem, so it was expected to scare wolves. The third sound was just people talking calmly in Polish. Zanette, Clinchy, and their colleagues quantified the level of fear each sound caused in wolves by measuring how quickly they vacated the area upon hearing it. //
Compared to the control sound of birds, hearing people was twice as likely to make wolves run, and it made them run twice as fast. Comparison to dogs also ended up in our favor: The wolves found humans roughly 20 percent more threatening. The same pattern held true for deer and wild boars, typical prey of wolves, which also got caught in the camera traps.
“These results track with basically the same experiment we did in Africa, where we tested the entire savannah mammal community,” Clinchy says. In that work, Clinchy and Zanette found that leopards, hyenas, and many other animals feared humans more than lions. //
The question, though, is whether we really have reasons to fear such encounters just as much as wolves fear them. “There have been no fatal wolf attacks in Europe in the last 40 years or so,” Clinchy says. In Poland, a wolf bit an 8-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy playing outside in 2018, and a pack of wolves circled two forest workers for about 20 minutes in 2021 without attacking them. That’s about all there is in the Polish big bad wolf files. //
nooneofconsequence Smack-Fu Master, in training
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It's 10 year old data but USDA says vultures kill more calves than wolves do. Purdue data says over 2% die in feedlots before slaughter. Last year in Colorado lightning killed more cattle than wolves. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colorado-cattle-death-lightning-jackson-county-b2552447.html //
rhavenn Ars Tribunus Militum
23y
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Moose kill more people yearly, but because they're "delicious", not "scary", and don't predate on farm animals no one gives a shit. Bears and wolves want nothing to do with you, the human. 90%+ of the time you won't even know they're there unless they want you to if you're out hiking or they don't care.
It took nearly two years for doctors to figure out the cause of his chest pain. //
The doctors were concerned enough that they decided it was time to take the implant out. After removing it, they sent the device and samples to the Florida health department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which did clinical and genetic testing. They all turned up Brucella suis.
B. suis is an extremely infectious bacteria that's usually found in pigs. The most common symptom in pigs is reproductive losses, such as stillbirths, though they can also develop other symptoms, such as abscesses and arthritis. In humans, it causes an insidious, hard to detect infection called brucellosis, which is used to describe an infection from any Brucella species: B. suis, B. melitensis, B. abortus, and B. canis.
In the US, there are only about 80 to 140 brucellosis cases reported each year, and they're mostly caused by B. melitensis and B. abortus. People tend to get infected by eating raw (unpasteurized) milk and cheeses. B. suis, however, is generally linked to hunting and butchering feral pigs and hogs.
Until recently, the Brucella species were designated as select agents by the US government, a classification to flag pathogens and toxins that have the potential to be a severe threat to public health, such as if they're used in a bioterror attack. The current list includes things like anthrax and Ebola virus. Brucella species were originally listed because they can be easily aerosolized, and only a small number of the bacterial cells are needed to spark an infection. In humans, infections can be both localized and systemic and have a broad range of clinical manifestations. Those include brain infections, neurological conditions, arthritis, anemia, respiratory involvement, pancreatitis, cardiovascular complications, like aneurysms, and inflammation of the spinal cord, among many other things.
In January, federal officials removed Brucella species from the select agents list—a designation that limits the types and amount of research that can be done on a pathogen. According to the US Department of Agriculture, the reason for the removal was to ease those limits, thereby making it easier for researchers to conduct veterinary studies and develop vaccines for animals. //
The man said he wasn't a hunter, but recalled receiving a gift of feral swine meat on several occasions in 2017 from a local hunter. Though he couldn’t recall the specific hunter who gave him the biohazardous bounty, he did remember handling the raw meat and blood with his bare hands—a clear transmission risk—before cooking and eating it. //
The man, meanwhile, finally received the proper course of antibiotics recommended by the CDC for brucellosis treatment, which was a combination of oral doxycycline and rifampin for six weeks. At the end of the course, his blood cultures were negative. A few months later, he had a new AICD placed. A year after the ordeal, lingering signs of the infection had faded. At a routine check-up after more than 3 years, he appeared to remain free of brucellosis.
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