Hunting is a gear-intensive sport whether you’re sitting in a blind for ducks or hiking deep into the backcountry for elk. Packs are essential equipment for transporting and easily accessing all that ...

Today's best hunting backpacks use durable materials and reliable features to help you make the most of your efforts. While each hunting backpack is personal to the hunter, there are some key ...

Every year, the load of gear I need to carry afield while hunting seems to increase. Hunting knives, elk calls, gloves, binoculars, snacks, camera gear, phone battery banks—all of it needs a place.

There’s a special kind of misery that comes from using the wrong pack for the job. But if you have a hunting backpack that fits you and matches the task, you’ll hardly notice it’s on your back. The ...

Elk hunting is hard. They’re big animals that cover a lot of ground in steep country, and elk hunters need to carry a lot of gear to aid in the pursuit, like clothing for unpredictable weather, food, ...

For most of his 60 years, Chris Peterson has been hunting elk and, when successful, packing them out on his back in boned-out quarters, sometimes over the course of two days. “Elk hunters enjoy pain, ...

A few brands are always included on the hardest hunters’ gear list. Kifaru is one of them. Arguably one of the best mountain pack manufacturers in the game, the introduction of the new ARK Frame is ...

It was 8:55 a.m., and I was trying my darndest to get out of the tree as quickly as possible. “Slow is smooth, smooth is fast,” I reminded myself. At the base of the tree, I took off my insulating ...