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…
Stephen D. Carpenteri, Game & Fish It’s a good bet that you can step outdoors anywhere in the state and before long you hear the tell-tale cawing of a distant…
Steve Felgenhauer Try this exercise with your favorite shotgun. First, ensure the shotgun is unloaded, and then close your eyes and shoulder the shotgun. Now open your eyes. Are you…
David Hart When is a topwater not a topwater? When it’s, well, not really a topwater. That doesn’t make much sense, of course, but consider this: Most bass lures fall…