M. D. Johnson Leave the gang at home, work the cover and shoot a rooster. Hunting roosters solo? Take your time, and analyze the cover first. Try to work birds…
Peter B. Mathiesen Anglers argue about the best knots to catch fish from one pound to 100. Although choice is important, I’ll take a well-tied improved clinch knot 90 percent of…
Submitted By: The Outdoor Wire Brush up on these turkey hunting safety tips to help ensure a safe and hopefully successful day in the woods. Successful hunting trips require a…
Randy Hill, IUOE 150 Visiting a park with ducks and geese can improve your dog’s steadiness in the field. Visiting a park with ducks and geese can improve your dog’s…
Submitted By: By Lynn Fieldman, IBEW Local 176 Just like a good recipe, a good hunting dog begins with the ingredients (bloodlines) followed by a good trainer. If you’re looking…
M. D. Johnson If you bag a squirrel from one mast tree, don’t hurry to rise and pick him up. If you bag a squirrel from one mast tree, don’t…
M. D. Johnson Don’t walk directly at a sitting cottontail. Don’t walk directly at a sitting cottontail. Rather, walk toward the critter in a circular fashion, with each round slightly…
M. D. Johnson Black bears may look slow, clumsy and dim-witted, but they’re anything but. Black bears may look slow, clumsy and dim-witted, but they’re anything but. A spooked blackie…
M. D. Johnson It pays to be quiet when pursuing late-season roosters. It pays to be quiet when pursuing late-season roosters. Pheasants have extraordinary hearing, and six weeks of hunting…
M. D. Johnson When calling predators like fox and coyote, start out your sequence at a low volume… When calling predators like fox and coyote, start out your sequence at…
M. D. Johnson Red fox and grey fox both in your area, but one fetching a higher price than the other at the fur buyer’s shed? Red fox and grey…
Christopher Renshaw The first part of this series focused on food and water considerations in habitat management. The following components—shelter and space—comprise the more “management intense” aspects of creating usable…
David Hart Can you shoot one-inch groups at 100 yards? Do you knock down every deer, coyote or elk you shoot at? If your answer is “no,” there’s a simple…
Peter B. Mathiesen Keeping today’s ATVs in top running condition can be a lesson in computer training and electronics. New ATVs run more efficiently, and they’re more comfortable and powerful.…
David Hart It’s been a year since Ruger introduced its American Rifle, the company’s plunge into the booming and crowded low-cost, bolt-action rifle market. That’s more than enough time for…
Peter B. Mathiesen With spring turkeys across the 48 states ready to answer your call, we thought it was a good time to look at some Made in the USA…
Craig Boddington By the 1930s virtually all big game species were at a low ebb in the United States, a long-term decline accelerated by meat hunting during the Depression and…
By David Hart Thirty years ago, a glimpse of a coyote in the southeast or mid-Atlantic was as rare as a bigfoot sighting in the Pacific northwest. Not anymore. While bigfoot…
By Craig Boddington Honestly, I’m not crazy about the term “modern sporting rifle.” On the other hand, it’s like fingernails on a blackboard when I hear semiautomatic sporting rifles described as…
By Tracy Breen Every January, all things archery can be found at the Archery Trade Associations’ annual trade show. This year, the show was held in Louisville, Kentucky, and like every…
By Steve Felgenhauer Most hunters I know have a set of antlers hanging around their place, either in their garage or mounted professionally and placed over the mantel in their living…