Featured Stories

Members’ Best Bucks and More 2007 click here
How does five pages of eye candy sound? You won’t believe the trophies bagged by American Hunter readers last season. By Sarah Taylor

Golden Bullseye Awards click here Here are our picks for the year’s best guns, ammo and gear, chosen from a plethora of outstanding products in 2007. By AH Staff

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	Five Steps to Convert an Anti-Hunter Have people who base their wildlife knowledge on Disney animations questioned why you hunt? Here’s how to beat the fantasy out of them while altering their point of view. By Frank Miniter
	The Biggest Game Opinions about elephant hunting run as big and strong as the animals themselves. Learn the truth, and enjoy this gripping pursuit of the world’s largest land mammals. By Dwight Van Brunt
	Finn’s Rifle Speaks Again After a 30-year hiatus, the pet rifle of American Hunter Field Editor Finn Aagaard travels to foreign shores in search of buffalo again. By Berit Aagaard

Special Reports and Official News

	NRA's Derby Run click here By NRA Staff—Every spring the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits make us proud to be NRA members fighting in freedom’s cause. With our Second Amendment rights on the line in the 2008 elections, it’s critically important that leading NRA members join us to send a message to politicians in every corner of the country—we are ready and able to defeat gun banners and elect pro-Second Amendment candidates in this election. Your presence in Louisville will help send that message loud and clear.
	No Ammo Means No Shooting click here By Chris W. Cox—In practical terms, ammunition bans are gun bans, and that’s exactly what anti-gun politicians hope to achieve with the introduction of bills banning the sale and possession of ammunition.
	The Second Amendment Showdown click here By Frank Miniter—The U.S. Supreme Court heard District of Columbia v. Heller, a Second Amendment case that will likely decide whether you have an individual right to bear arms. Here’s what happened.

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The Editor

Editor in Chief J. Scott Olmsted is an NRA Life member, former Marine, and lifelong hunter and outdoorsman. He joined the staff of American Hunter in May 1998 as Assistant Editor after stints as a news photographer at various papers in northern Virginia. A native of northern Virginia, he has extensive hunting experience throughout the Lower 48, Alaska, Canada and Africa. His education includes an associate's degree in fine art from Northern Virginia Community College, a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Missouri, and a master's in business administration from George Mason University. Some of his favorite topics to write about include big game hunting, rifles, optics, adventure and personal discovery. When he's not at work you might find him riding his Harley-Davidson Road King Classic, playing the drums or spending time with his 16-year-old son.

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