Deer Hunting Tips for Weekend Warriors
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…
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…
Steve Ryan by Steve Ryan, In-Fisherman The scene may be different, but presentation principles play out just the same as in wilderness settings. Welcome to the urban jungle, constructed of concrete,…
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…
Bob McNally Few places in America offer as good or as varied freshwater fishing as that found near the city of Buffalo, New York, just a short cast from famed…
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…
Wade Bourne, Vicious Pro Staff Most fishing pressure is focused on big lakes that gain the lion’s share of publicity in fishing reports, tournament results, etc. In contrast, smaller, less…
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…
Doug Howlett The small dock jutting into the neighborhood lake behind my mother’s house has produced some fun fishing over the years and accounted for each of my kids’ first…
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…
Bob Jensen The summer months are a good time of the year for fish in at least one way: There’s a lot of food in the water for them to…
Ted Pilgrim By Ted Pilgrim, as seen on the Fishing Wire When muskies launch into radical feeding rampages, there’s simply nothing else like it in freshwater fishing. Jaws snap, hooks set,…
David Draper It was a hunt that wasn’t supposed to happen, or not happen like this anyway. My friend Bill and I were supposed to be chasing bull elk from…
M. D. Johnson For the outdoorsman, there are few achievements as satisfying as accomplishing a goal, be it catching a limit of channel ‘cats or tagging a wary longbearded gobbler,…
Babe Winkelman Does Mother Nature provide signs that help us predict when and where the fish will be biting? Is it possible to look at the sky, sniff the air…
Craig Boddington Okay, the word is actually “reticule.” You won’t get the word “reticle” to come up on your spell-check. But over the years, in our little world, we’ve shortened…
Tracy Breen Scouting cameras have changed the way many people hunt, myself included. Just a few years ago I was bowhunting black bears in Quebec, and the hunt wasn’t going…
Fly Fisherman Provided by Fly Fisherman Smallmouth and largemouth bass might be America’s most popular gamefish— and for good reason. These hardy, stocky predators smash lures (and flies) hard and thrive…
Beau Beasley On a recent flight home from Portland, Oregon, where I was visiting relatives, to Washington D.C., I sat next to a man who was traveling on business. One…
Bob Neill It all started in the late summer of 2007 when my 12-year-old son, Michael, asked if he could go hunting with me. I have been an avid outdoorsman…