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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
by Vic Dunaway, In-Fisherman by Vic Dunaway, In-Fisherman This uni-knot system enables you to learn just one simple knot and adapt it to virtually any need – everything from tying a…
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…
Beau Beasley More times than not when folks learn I’m a fly angler, I hear a statement like, “I’ve always wanted to do that, but never took the time to…
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…