Why Did Erie County, New York’s Mark Poloncarz Veto an Expansion of Youth Hunting?
By Larry Keane
New York’s 2021 budget allowed counties to lower the youth hunting minimum age and fall more in line with the rest of the country. All but one county adopted the lowered age.
Erie...
September Adjusted Background Checks Second Highest Ever On News of Higher Violent Crime, Start...
Try not to yawn at news of yet another huge gun sales month. September saw another 1,350,754 adjusted background checks, a good measure of gun sales activity. That's far less than a year ago...
A New Father Dreams of the Hunts to Come With His Son
By Matt Manda
As a brand-new father, to say I’m excited about it would be like saying Tom Brady has won some football games. A proud dad to a three-week old son, I can’t wait...
Gun Review: M48 Nosler Custom Handgun in 7mm-08 Remington
Welcome to the retro-future. The single shot, bolt action M48 Nosler Custom Handgun reaches back into shooting history to create one of the coolest, most effective hunting pistols of the future.
The M48 Nosler Custom...
Credit Where It’s Due: Gun Owners Are a Big Part of America’s Conservation Success...
By Larry Keane
Some journalists can’t help but shame the very benefactors driving the rebound of America’s bald eagle and other wildlife. They somehow get it backwards and report on the remarkable conservation successes of...
Shoot a Hog, Save the Planet
By Mark Oliva
Celebrating National Shooting Sports Month doesn’t have to be just a range activity. Hunters can get into the game too and while they’re at it, lend a helping hand to conservation and...
Two Anti-Hunting Groups Use Covid to Try to Radically Limit Hunting Across the United...
By Lawrence G. Keane
Two anti-hunting groups are making a move to kill hunting. They’re looking to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and Department of the Interior (DOI) to publish a rule that...
Hunting in Africa: Unintended Consequences, or How I learned to Love the Zebra
Just like it was a few months prior, the KLM plane from Amsterdam to Johannesburg is almost completely empty. My two traveling companions, plus myself, make up a third of the passengers aboard the...
The Gun and Ammo Sales Boom Means Record Pittman-Robertson Dollars for Conservation
There's something the 10 million or so first-time gun buyers that have joined the ranks of America's firearms owners in the last 18 months probably don't know. Every gun and round of ammunition they...
Gear Review: Pnuma Outdoors 3L Element Rain Proof Jacket
If you had asked me at the beginning of the year what would be my favorite piece of hunting gear for 2021, I would not have thought it would be a rain jacket.
It's a...
The 67-Point “Butcher Buck:” Second Biggest in Bowhunting History
Talk about non-typical. Scoring the rack on a buck like this isn't exactly straightforward. In fact, it took a five-and-a-half hour measuring session and 18 months of consideration to officially score the "Butcher Buck"...
Unwoke Once Again: Elmer Fudd Gets His Gun Back
Looney Tunes has been some of the least woke and most entertaining television content to occupy young skulls full of mush over the last half century or so. Yosemite Sam's six-shooters and Elmer Fudd's...