David Hart Predator hunting is quickly becoming one of the hottest trends among sportsmen. Try it and you’ll see why. The thrill of watching a fox slink down an old…
Submitted By: Photos courtesy of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Those of us in the 21st century can hardly imagine what things were really like when those hardy individuals commonly known…
Tony Kinton For those who are afflicted by the lure of historic rifles, the name Sharps stirs them to the core. Rivaled only by the Kentucky long rife and various…
Tracy Breen If you have spent much time hunting from a treestand or hunting in hilly or mountainous terrain, you have probably watched your arrow sail over the top of…
Tony Kinton Famed existentialist author and thinker Franz Kafka wrote The Metamorphosis. In this chilling tale Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find that he had been changed into a huge bug.…
David Hart Somewhere out in the woods this deer season a hunter is perched high off the ground, his eyes sweeping the forest floor for any sign of a whitetail.…
Tracy Breen Sitting with my shotgun on my lap, I heard the sounds of leaves rustling under the feet of a flock of turkeys. I quickly raised my gun and…
Tracy Breen Choosing a new broadhead can be a daunting task. After all, there are more broadheads on the market than there are politicians in Washington D.C., so it is…
David Hart For years, the anti-hunting movement was little more than a fringe element that served as a running joke among hunters. Animal rights activists were socially-inept members of the…
M. D. Johnson Clint Eastwood said these words in his movie, Heartbreak Ridge, as he attempted to ready his recruits for the rigors of combat. What Dirty Harry was spotlighting was…
USA Staff Ballistic reticles have become all the rage. In some ways this is a good thing because it helps hunters hit at longer distances. It can be a bad…
M. D. Johnson Grunts, bleats, and rattles are elemental sounds in the grand scheme of things, regardless of the creature making the sounds. However, there might be a bit more…
J. Guthrie I started bow hunting when I was 14 years old. Mom and dad picked up an old Ben Pearson recurve bow and a quiver full of mismatched arrows…
David Hart Molly was on her third point of the morning and we were just 15 minutes into the hunt. The first two, however, were false points, nothing but fresh…
Tony Kinton Late in 1969 Remington added to its commercial line one of the grandest little rounds ever devised, the .25-06. The round dates back to 1920 with the work…
David Hart Hunters follow some pretty crazy theories when it comes to that mythical period known as the rut: A little cold weather and the rut will get going. It…
M. D. Johnson There’s no denying it—treestands definitely have their place in the whitetail hunter’s arsenal of gear. However, if you’re like me and begin to have height-related issues about…
Lost at Sea I shot the first eland bull I ever saw. It was my first African safari and we were hunting along the southern edge of the Limpopo River…
Tony Kinton The buck took me by surprise. I knew he was there having seen him on several other occasions. But this morning I was taken aback. Before daylight I…
M. D. Johnson It’s a fact—nothing works all the time. And in no situation is this statement more valid than in goose hunting. Early season, mid-season, late season, it doesn’t…
David Hart Deer hunters in numerous states are being forced to shoot does before they can shoot bucks, a rule that doesn’t sit well with many hunters. Wisconsin, New Jersey,…
David Hart Teddy Carr had the perfect set-up—a fresh-cut cornfield, a couple dozen Carry Lite decoys and a well-hidden layout blinds for him and his clients. When the first flock…