Roger Berreth Is Ringo Starr an old elk hunter? He sure could be because all elk hunters know, “It Don’t Come Easy.” To write a song like that, he had…
Craig Boddington The year was probably 1272 when Venetian traveler Marco Polo first encountered the wild sheep with the fantastically curling horns that, more than 700 years later, still bears…
Submitted By: Mike Hanback – USA Guest Author ] You can go out and glass fields and look for deer tracks and stuff like you always have (yawn, boring). Or,…
Craig Boddington The two rams were feeding along a distant ridge when first spotted. They were two miles away and more, and I have no idea how our Mexican guides…
J. Wayne Fears as seen on the Outdoor Wire It was the Christmas of Christmas’s. Under the red cedar Christmas tree, we had cut behind the barn, brought into the…
Submitted By: Tim Herald – USA Guest Author Dall’s sheep, brown bears, Alaskan-Yukon moose; these are all marquis species that we think of when hunting Alaska is mentioned. Truth be…
Craig Boddington America adopted her first .30-caliber military rifle, the Norwegian Krag in .30-40, in 1892. Our long-beloved .30-30 Winchester came out a couple of years later. After the turn…
Lee J. Hoots As of late, a longgun with interchangeable barrels seems to be the major focus at Black Powder Products, Inc., parent company to CVA Muzzleloading. The brand’s affordable…
Craig Boddington “I didn’t know you could still hunt elephant.” This is one of the first comments I usually hear on the subject of elephant hunting, even among fairly knowledgeable…
Submitted By: Tim Herald – USA Guest Author In today’s world of quality deer management, great food-plot mixes and a dozen other factors that help us grow and harvest great…
David Hart It is still summer. Deer season may be months away, but it’s time to start thinking about food plots. In fact, hunters who live in the northern reaches…
Bob McAuliffe A few years back, my friend Russ Fullerton and I went on a caribou hunt in Gander, Newfoundland. We have always hunted in Pennsylvania for whitetail deer, black…
Babe Winkelman Basic hunting ethics mandate that every hunter must strive for clean, humane kills. Indeed, we hunters must do everything we can to prevent wounding losses in the field.…
J. Wayne Fears as seen on the Outdoor Wire The accurate weather information is an important part of the hunting, angling and shooting world, especially in remote locations. Knowing when…
Paul Markel Scanning the wood line with your compact binoculars you pick up movement in the thicket. Your heart begins to race and you make out what appears to be…
Dan Beily There are several ways I could start this story, and it wouldn’t change the ending. Since I need someplace to start, I will go back eight years and…
Craig Boddington Roy Weatherby was a savvy gun guy. He was also a marketing genius and a true zealot who believed in his theories about high velocity and his own…
J. Wayne Fears as seen on the Outdoor Wire Truth be told, there aren’t a lot of deer hunters out there that can make a 200-yard or longer, one-shot kill,…
Ron Ghighi On August 1st, after jogging two miles every other day all summer, I suddenly started having mild pains in my chest while jogging, but it stopped when I…
David Draper For many years, I thought camp cooking meant hot dogs impaled on a stick and roasted until one side was black and the other still cold, or hockey-puck…
Craig Boddington Among middle-aged shooters like myself the .270 Winchester is best known as Jack O’Connor’s cartridge. Truly a man of letters, as a young man O’Connor wrote three pretty…
Paul Markel “My front sight is farther away than it used to be,” remarked a hunting buddy of mine. I had to admit irons sights were no longer the reliable…