Randy Newberg When asked about western hunting techniques or strategy, hunters are usually getting the cart before the horse. Before you can worry about when, where, how, or the multitude…
Ken Cook Fishing for spawning or bedding fish is challenging and a lot of fun because it requires certain skills that anglers don’t have to use very often. Plus, the…
Hank Parker Many anglers will say that the wind can act as both a hindrance and a help while out on the water. Sometimes erratic and disruptive, stronger winds can…
Tony Kinton A German shorthair pointer worked the wind with skill. She would run perpendicular to the breeze for 75 yards or so, head high and olfactory senses at play,…
Larry Nixon By this time of year, throughout many parts of the country, bass have seen a fair amount of fishing pressure. Common sense tells us that bass in this…
Ken Cook Minus a calendar and temperature changes, there’s an easy way to mark the arrival of summer: the massive quantities of pleasure boaters taking to local lakes. Now don’t…
Lost at Sea Some say that open sights are a thing of the past. Some say you cannot shoot accurately with open sights, arguing that a scope is required to…
Luke Clausen Growing up in Washington, I couldn’t wait for summer to arrive. For me, summer meant longer days to do all the fishing, hiking and camping that I wanted…
Tony Kinton Mention the name Winchester and the mind is filled with images of the Old West, of cowboys and lever rifles. Or the picture of hunters clad in plaid…
Chris Ellis As fisherman, we are opportunistic. We all have our favorite way to catch fish but the sometimes the water, weather, and of course the fish dictate how we…
Lost at Sea It was a beautiful morning to hunt but I watched the sun come up from my office window. I could have been hunting but had experienced about…
David Hart Few things are as divisive within the fishing community as bass tournaments. It seems anglers either love them or hate them. Critics claim that the increase in number…
David Hart Despite their dainty reputation and habit of sipping tiny insects off the water’s surface, trout, big trout in particular, are opportunistic killers that readily eat meat. A close…
Lost at Sea I first saw the Browning X-Bolt in October of 2007on a pronghorn hunt with Browning & Winchester in Wyoming. When all the writers divided up the rifles…
Randy Newberg As parents, we know the feeling of joy when we see our youngster taking steps toward adulthood. Sometimes it is gradual, though often, it is a sudden realization.…
M. D. Johnson The lazy summer days of June, a wise man who obviously was also an angler once said, are tailor-made for channel ‘cats. The water temperatures across most…
C.J. Davis Tenacity, stubbornness—whatever you want to call it—sticking to a plan can pay off big time for deer hunters. That lesson was sent home twice to me twice this…
Beau Beasley Every year it’s the same thing: I get the first whiff of spring and brush off the winter doldrums by rooting through the fly fishing gear in my…
David Hart The bird came in high over the trees, leveled off and then dropped right in front of me. Easy shot, I figured, but instead of shattering into a…
Beau Beasley “Be careful Jim”, I said to my guide as he unhooked and then handed me my first West Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout. “I think he must have swallowed the…
M. D. Johnson On the Silver Screen, they were called The Dirty Dozen—12 World War II soldiers sentenced by a military tribunal to hard labor, but each given a full…
Ken Cook Already it’s May and spring is here. Anglers from coast to coast are furiously in pursuit of spawning and post-spawning bass. Just the thought of reeling in one…