The Scoop On Scopes
Craig Boddington I started hunting in the 1960s. At that time the telescopic sight was more than a century old, but only fairly recently had come into widespread use. The…
Craig Boddington I started hunting in the 1960s. At that time the telescopic sight was more than a century old, but only fairly recently had come into widespread use. The…
Babe Winkelman The Canadian Shield is a massive geological shield covered by igneous rock. That’s rock created by volcanoes! It was part of a massive volcanic mountain way back before…
Submitted By: Bob McNally – USA Guest Author Sam Heaton was on a mission, and at daybreak that day he was all business. “We gotta get out Stuart Inlet, jig…
Blaine Burley Many of today’s small landowners have discovered that big bucks can be grown and harvested on small acreage. What is still being debated, however, is the best way…
Lee J. Hoots In 1999, a small firearms importing company was founded in Alexandria, Virginia. The fledgling business, Legacy Sports International, was staffed by a small crew with years of…
Beau Beasley The Pequest River is not the type of river that will impress you with its sheer size. As a mater of fact, if this body of water were…
Luke Clausen With any presentation, confidence is the key. A swimbait isn’t like a dropshot; it doesn’t catch the volume of fish. Anglers who learn to dropshot can take it…
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,…
Peter B. Mathiesen Planning a trip to Alaska? Want to save lots of coin, avoid crowds, and catch tons of cranky fish? Of course you do. Places like the Kenai…
Bob Jensen It’s mid-summer and the weather is hot. In many areas of the Midwest, the bass fishing is pretty hot also. Some of the most consistent bass-catching of the…
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…
Submitted By: Wade Bourne, Vicious Pro Staff Crappie, bluegill, perch and other panfish are popular targets for anglers, and jigs are among the best lures to catch these fish. However,…
Submitted By: Tammy Randolph A few months ago, while interviewing for a job, I was asked, “What interests you about the Union Sportsmen’s Alliance?” My answer was a simple one: …
Submitted By: Bob McNally – USA Guest Author If you own a boat and outboard motor, and you’ve not yet run afoul of E10 gasoline, count your lucky stars. Better…
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…
Babe Winkelman OK, beauty may be in the eye of the beholder because bullheads might be one of the homeliest fish in fresh water. But there are a lot of…
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…
Submitted By: Randy Howell – USA Guest Author Sometimes, you just never know what’s going to be on the other end of the line when you reel it in. On…
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…
Submitted By: Jon Bondy – USA Guest Author Call me biased. It’s okay, really. I think Canada’s Lake St. Clair is one of the best smallmouth lakes there is. I…