Ken Cook If it’s not snow or freezing rain, it’s bone-chilling air temperatures and icy winds that make a day on the water nearly insufferable. But just because you’re uncomfortable,…
Mike Hanback Luke Strommen pulled back his longbow string and launched a wooden arrow down through the cottonwoods. It arched through the air as if in slow motion, then buried…
Craig Boddington As standard cartridges go, the .280 Remington has one of the oddest histories. Based on the .30-06 case necked down to take a 7mm, or .284-inch bullet, the…
J. Wayne Fears Oftentimes your hunt really begins once you’ve shot or arrowed a deer. Only after you’ve recovered the animal can you call your hunt a success. Let’s look…
David Hart If you served your family a farm-raised, store-bought, hormone-injected turkey for Thanksgiving, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. You’re a hunter, aren’t you? You probably have lots…
Mike Hanback At first I figured a guy on the next ridge had spooked the jittery doe that dashed past my stand. But then I questioned the spooky doe’s motives:…
David Dunbar As seen on MyBuckStory.com I was taking two buddies fall turkey hunting about two years ago. We decided to camp on the farm I normally hunt and split…
Tim Herald Late season hunting equals spending lots of time on food sources, right? Well, that certainly can be a good strategy, especially in cold temperatures. After all, deer have…
Craig Boddington Nearly 90 years ago Theodore Roosevelt’s son, Kermit, journeyed to the Tien Shan Mountains of western China. His book, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, is a…
Bob Jensen As we get further into the autumn period, the weather gets a little cooler. It’s generally not bitterly cold this time of year and, in fact, the weather…
Rich Kostner As seen on MyBuckStory.com. There we were: Day One of our quest to harvest the beautiful black turkey of Wisconsin. My guide, Scott, had gotten me in range…
Travis Peterson Today’s angler can still find the old “Five-o-Diamonds” spoon that his grandfather stocked in his tackle box. Some things never change. Walk through a tackle shop today, though,…
Doug Howlett For all the attention and concern given non-native species – think snakeheads, zebra mussels, released pythons, and even wild European boars – that are showing they can thrive…
Mike Hanback You thought you could smell pretty well? Get this: Studies show that whitetail deer may be 10,000 times more sensitive to odors than we are. Further, scientists say…
Beau Beasley “You gonna set the hook on those fish, Beau?” Eric Stroup asked me sternly. Stroup had asked me to fish Spring Creek in central Pennsylvania, a stream famous…
Ken Barrett Have you ever dreamt of shooting a deer with antlers so wide you have to reach for a yardstick to measure them? Have you dreamt of hunting, walking…
Bob Jensen Fall provides a lot of fishing opportunities. Most fish, whether they live in lakes, rivers, reservoirs, or ponds go on a bite in the autumn months. River fish…
Doug Howlett Next to a hunter’s gun, bow and camouflage, a treestand has become as much a part of a deer hunter’s “essential” gear as anything else you will find…
Craig Boddington Introduced in 1963, the .300 Winchester Magnum was the last of Winchester’s family of standard-length belted magnums, following the .458 Winchester Magnum (1956) and the .264 and .338…
Babe Winkelman If you live and fish in the Northern states, one of the toughest decisions we make is WHEN to winterize the boat/outboard. It’s so sad to put it…
Larry Nixon In the old days, just to catch fish this time of year we had to go shallow and capitalize on bass chasing big shad in the backs of…
Tom Rosenbauer There is a period of dry-fly activity on most trout streams every fall that rivals the best hatches of spring. It’s a “fall” (as opposed to a hatch)…
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