Craig Boddington My native state of Kansas pretty much defines prairie. Especially if you aren’t from there! When I was a kid growing up in the hedgerows and woodlots of…
By Bob Humphrey, Yamaha Outdoors Tip No doubt about it, the vast majority of whitetail hunting today is done from some type of elevated platform – treestand, tripod or shooting house. That…
David Draper With a few exceptions, no matter where you live in the U.S., you have a duck-hunting opportunity close by, often closer than you may think. These places take…
In-Fisherman By In-Fisherman Your Best Friend Never have power augers been so reliable and so efficient. The In-Fisherman staff puts them all through the paces each season – from the StrikeMasters…
By Erik Jensen, IBT Local 320 Recently, I returned from my first elk hunt, which was in Colorado’s Mount Zirkel Wilderness area. Due to last minute changes, my normal hunting…
(Pictured: Illinois AFL-CIO President Michael Carrigan, Chicago and Cook County Building Trades, President Tom Villanova, Chicago Federation of Labor Secretary-Treasurer Robert Reiter, Union Insurance Group President Chris DeCaigny and Union Sportsmen’s Alliance Executive Director Fred Myers.)…
M. D. Johnson Ice fishing. Just the mere words can strike fear into the heart of even the most seasoned open-water angler. And it’s really no surprise, actually. A short…
By William Heasley, SMWIA Local 12 Here in Okeechobee, Florida, it’s hard to find a nice ripe tomato in the grocery stores or even at the roadside markets. The only ones…
Babe Winkelman Stroll through the fishing line aisle at big sporting goods stores and it’s overwhelming. Monofilament, co-polymer, braid, fluorocarbon, tough, limp, clear, blue, green, red, yellow, 1-pound test, 75-pound,…
Mike Hanback The tradition dates back decades. Eliot Strommen and his sons and a few friends gather for an early Thanksgiving breakfast at his 1800s ranch house hard on the…
Ken Barrett When most hunting seasons have ended and a serious case of hunting withdrawal begins to set in, don’t reach for the TV remote. Instead, grab your .22 or…
Mike Hanback It’s a good time to be a deer hunter in America. The opportunity to shoot a monster buck has never been better. As proof, we introduce you to…
Nashville, TN—The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance (USA) is pleased to announce a new partnership with one of America’s shooting optics icons—the Burris Company. Part of the Beretta family, the Burris Company recently joined…
Bob Jensen A question that I hear quite a bit about ice fishing pertains to the effects of weather on fish under the ice. Most anglers realize that weather plays…
Craig Boddington The 6.5mm, caliber .264, never popular in the United States, has remained a European standby since the first military cartridges in that bullet diameter made their appearance in…
Luke Clausen Shorter days, cool temperatures and buck fever go a long ways toward calming many an avid angler’s desire to put the boat in the water and go fishing…
Steve Felgenhauer At the beginning of every hunting season, gun shops across the country receive frantic calls for help. It goes something like this, “Old Betsy worked fine last year,…
Clayton Bolton I really wasn’t interested in another “throw away” dog. My last two were dogs that no one wanted to make a home for. If somebody hadn’t taken them,…
David Hart The thermometer in Kyle Mabrey’s truck read 32 degrees when he backed his boat into the water last fall. The Alabama angler was pre-fishing for an upcoming tournament,…
by Polly Dean, Game & Fish Most of us don’t own stock in an ammunition company. Nor do we appreciate unloading shell after shell trying to knock down the first dove.…
Nashville, TN—The Union Sportsmen’s Alliance’s (USA) Boots on the Ground program has teamed up with volunteers from the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) Locals 7 and 39 to offer…
Bob Jensen It’s autumn throughout the Midwest. The leaves on trees are exploding in color, we’re several games into the football season, some of the early migrating species of birds…