John Taranto is Outdoor Life’s Gear Editor. Prior to joining the Outdoor Life staff full-time, in the summer of 2000, following his graduation from New York University, he served as the magazine’s intern while studying journalism. A country boy at heart, Taranto grew up hunting deer and turkeys in Central New York with his father, brother, uncles and cousins, and fishing for northern pike, walleyes and smallmouths in northern Ontario, where his family owns summer camps. Long intrigued by the equipment employed by hunters and fishermen, Taranto now travels all over North America putting the newest hunting and fishing gear through its paces and reporting his findings in the pages of Outdoor Life.

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