Shot Placement: Women Who Hunt (and Shoot)
Yesterday I found myself caught in a conversation I’ve had countless times over the years. A volunteer RSO at my local sportsmen's club had shown up while I was running a few guns for...
“They Hunt!”
A few years ago, a relative of mine was visiting his sister in a Midwestern college town. The sister and her husband have done well. They have two lovely children and would be considered...
Shot Placement: Thrill of the Hunt
Last fall I found myself sitting in a field of prickly Blue-Eyed grass using a young Foothill Pine for concealment; I’d hiked in while it was still dark to find a place to wait...
Shot Placement: Hogs, Hogs, Hogs
Hog hunting has enjoyed Most Popular Hunt status for some time now. And of course, when people think feral hogs they tend to think Texas. It’s certainly true the Lone Star State has more...
Wyoming To Hold First Grizzly Bear Hunt in Decades
In the fall of 2018, the first legal, scheduled grizzly bear hunt managed by a state government will be held in Wyoming. Much of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) is in the state of...
Shot Placement: Summer Hunting (Bring on the ‘Yotes)
It was going to happen eventually. Spring turkey has come to an end almost nationwide. Yeah, there are a few stragglers like Washington State, my state of birth. In Washington you can go after...
Book Review: 4 Seconds Until Impact: The Skyrocketing Attacks by Predators on Humans
In 4 Seconds Until Impact, Bruce Buckshot Benning reveals that over the last three decades, attacks by large predators against humans have been skyrocketing in North America. It is not just a matter of...
Shot Placement: The Ethical Truth About High-Fence Hunting
Hunting is defined as the determined search for or pursuit of wild animals, so it’s logical that Merriam-Webster defines a hunter as “one that searches for something.” In fact, that phrase resonates for many...
Shot Placement: We Have the (Processed) Meat
Meals in 2018 are a simple process. Pick your poison – fast food, sit-down restaurant, ready-made meals at the grocery store – and you’re golden. Food today comes in outrageously simplistic packages from pre-cut,...
What About Your Wads? – Question of the Day
As a waterfowl hunter, part of my daily duck season routine includes picking up spent 12-gauge hulls. If we don’t stay on top of it, hundreds, sometimes thousands of them can become scattered across...
Savage’s New Model 110 Hog Hunter
JWT was tromping out in Texas hill country last night popping piggies with a .44 1858 Colt black powder revolver. Quite a challenge which we understand he was more than up to. If he'd...
Pennsylvania Game Commission OKs Hunting Big Game with Semiautomatic Shotguns
In 2017, Pennsylvania became the last state to restore legal hunting of game with semiautomatic rifles. Hunting with semiautomatic rifles had been outlawed in the Keystone State since 1907.
Last week, the Pennsylvania Board...