It’s that time of year again. The time when your heart starts pounding, your mouth goes dry, and you keep checking the calendar every few minutes. You start thinking up new cuss words every time you can’t see it, and…
There you sit in the forest or atop a sage covered hillside, gun in hand as time limps tediously away. Sunlight fades to dark twilight and another hunting season ends. Now what? It’s an old truism; a hunting season’s last…
“Good Morning. Any luck? May I see your identification and your hunting license?” For the most part, a hunter’s first, and often only, interaction with a game enforcement officer begins with those words, or something similar. Game officers, or wardens…
WARNING: No bears were harmed in the making of this spring bear season. Spring bear season. It’s what you do after you’ve recovered from general deer/elk season and are looking at your freezer with regret from eating all the venison…
“Sorry, we’re out. Our supplier doesn’t know when we’ll get more.” If you’re a hunter, you’ve no doubt heard this countless times at your local gun shop. Your favorite load, bullet, or gunpowder isn’t available anywhere for any price. Hunting…
Your partner has asked you to join him or her hunting (or maybe you asked if you could hunt) and the answer is “yes.” You’re excited and maybe a little nervous. After all, you’re a newbie and your partner is…
This sucks. The words rattled around in my head in sympathy with my kidneys which were tossed unmercifully by the mil-spec seat in the old Willys Jeep. My second year as a hunter showed every sign it would end as…
.300 WSM (L) next to .300 Win Mag. I have a love-hate relationship with my rifle. It has put meat on the table, but I’ve missed a fair share of deer to the point where I questioned my shooting. I’m…
“There’s turkeys on the hill.” The words snapped my attention from an article I needed to finish; predatory adrenaline propelled me up from my desk. I grabbed the old Stevens 20-gauge single-barrel shotgun from its storage place along with three,…
In desperate need for new warm weather hunting boots last year, I settled on a some Cabelas Outfitter Series specimens, after a months long, frustration filled search. It’s no secret I am a slavish Cabelas customer, have been for decades,…