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,…
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.…
Craig Boddington There was scat along the trails, and long-clawed tracks in just about every wet spot. We were in bear country. More specifically, we were in grizzly country. At…
USA Staff Article provided by ProHuntersJournal.com member Jay Clawson I am by no means a farmer or biologist, but being able to grow things from Mother Nature has always been fascinating to…
Doug Howlett Looking to relaunch his one-time interest in bowhunting, a friend of mine, who still primarily hunts using firearms, began shopping around for a new bow, but he was…
Steve Blackton In December of 2007, I started to plan for a guided whitetail hunt, a gift from my wife for my 40th birthday. This was going to be my…
Mike Hruby It was the second week of September 2008, and we were two days from getting slammed by Hurricane Ike on the upper Texas coast. I knew the devastation…
Tim Herald Hunting bugling elk is my favorite hunt in North America, hands down. I love early fall in the mountains, the bugling of elk, and that interaction of calling…
By Jon Silks, Game & Fish HEAD ON You may have seen the debates online about this shot opportunity. Folks claim they can make it every time and that if you…
Craig Boddington For some of us, there’s still a wait until whitetail season begins. At my place in Kansas, though I’m still waiting, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks…
Steve Felgenhauer I needed some help, after last season’s performance in the duck blind. As daylight began showing, so did the ducks; at first highballs, flying clear of our blind…
Charly Culbertson It was the Kelly boys, Danny and Kevin, who introduced me to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka when he was with the miners’ union. The Kelly family owns and…
Doug Howlett Few technological advances in recent years have changed the way we scout and prepare for deer season like the trail camera has. First made of crude (by today’s…
Mike Hanback We bloggers and outdoor TV hosts have turned whitetail hunting into an endless autumn. When one season closes in January, we tell you to get back out there…
Tracy Breen As technology advances, treestand technology also advances. Not long ago, the average treestand weighed 30 pounds or more and was difficult to lug around in the woods. Today,…
Bob Barteck Thousands of Sandhill Cranes serenaded us as they climbed in altitude over our heads. My 12-year-old son, Andrew, and I quietly settled into our blind. The morning air…
Steve Felgenhauer The three boxes of shells sitting on the counter reduced the $100 bill to barely enough to buy me a value meal at McDonalds. “Can this stuff be…
Brad Cummings, IAFF Local 3234 Thomas Jefferson once said, “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Most people wouldn’t consider themselves lucky to…
Craig Boddington When I was new shooter in the 1960s, we were in a serious magnum craze, when all the new cartridges bore a “magnum” suffix and we believed velocity…
Travis Sadler My father Claude Sadler, Director of Southern and Central LECET of the Laborers Union, walked into the living room in 2007 holding the right side of a shed…
Mark Kayser You’ve certainly heard the old saying “you can drive a whitetail anywhere it wants to go.” There’s a lot of truth to that statement, but when whitetails aren’t…