Josh Smith makes some of the hunting industry’s most popular knives. Here’s the story behind Smith’s Montana Knife Company and an inside look at his western Montana shop
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Travis Hall
Travis is Field & Stream's full-time associate editor. He covers breaking outdoor news and pressing conservation issues. Highlights Education Hall graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 2012. His outdoor education began at age three in pursuit of stripper-pit panfish, and it continues to progress on a near daily basis. Experience Hall lives with his wife and two young sons in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley where he’s cutting his teeth on the finer points of elk, mule deer, and mountain grouse hunting. He grew up hunting whitetails and wild turkeys on reclaimed coal country in southern Indiana. F&S Lightening Round Favorite Place to Fish: Any fishing access site along the Bitterroot River; Favorite Critter to Hunt: Rut-crazed whitetails; Bucket List Adventure: September elk in Montana’s Big Snowy Mountains; Most Prized Piece of Gear: Savage Lightweight Hunter chambered in .308; All-Time Favorite F&S Story: “F&S Classics: The Day Bear Died,” by Hal Herring Notable Work
Hunters, conservation groups, and even Colorado Parks & Wildlife employees are speaking out against ballot box biology in the Centennial State ahead of the November election. Here’s why
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Matthew Mogenson connected with the 19-point Iowa giant on the evening of October 18. Here’s the full story behind his once-in-a-lifetime buck
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Mark Dunn bagged a once-in-a-lifetime buck with an enormous droptine near Mechanicsburg, Ohio earlier this month
Logan Urban tagged one of the biggest bucks we’ve seen this season while hunting from the ground in northern Ohio
Evan Morgeson shot the massive whitetail on the morning of October 8
Adam Duncan shot the buck from a ground blind as it was turning around to walk out of his shooting lane
