Capt. Bert Deener So, are you expecting a tie again this year for Christmas? How about a nice, fuzzy, warm scarf? If you drop some well-timed hints, maybe you can…
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…
David Hart Winter’s not far away and anglers all over the country are stashing tackle, covering boats and looking forward to another great season next year. A few, however, are…
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.…
M. D. Johnson It happened, as many things do, by accident. One minute I’m skipping a 3-inch, white twistertail across the water in what I could best describe as an…
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…
Beau Beasley You never know exactly what to expect when you’re fishing in Alaska. Not long after my father-in-law and I got off the bush plane and onto a boat…
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…
Beau Beasley “You should have been there, Beau,” said my good friend, fishing guide Captain Tommy Mattioli of Matty-J-Charter Service. “The stripers were everywhere, breaking the surface of the water…
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…
Tracy Breen After a long rain or a snow melt when waters are muddy is a great times to fish for walleyes. But according to professional angler and guide, Ernie…
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…
Capt. Bert Deener Big, bruiser redfish pull like a freight train and seem to never give up. Whether you call them spottail bass, channel bass, redfish, or the accepted common…
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…
USA Staff WASHINGTON – In honor of the 150th birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, famed guide and fly tyer Craig Mathews and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership are teaming to introduce a…