I’ll admit it. I have no idea what constitutes a mature whitetail buck. This is because I generally deer hunt private property with guides whose job it is to know what constitutes such. Call me lucky. Or spoiled. Regardless… It was during my latest whitetail hunt,...
The idea for what is by far the most gorgeous sporting goods store I’ve ever visited began in the pages of the Sears catalog. It was while dreaming of all the firearms and fishing gear that he couldn’t afford in that annual publication that Gordy & Sons founder...
“He’s a damn vacuum cleaner is what he is,” is how Dr. Richard Allen described the moocher aoudad that has made his Goat Creek Ranch near Kerrville, Texas his private buffet. “He’s sucked up several hundred if not thousands of pounds of deer corn since he showed up a...
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? And this concludes everything I know about woodchucks. I take that back. I actually also know that they’re sometimes called groundhogs and that one named Phil in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania can...
Here’s what I know about the Dalai Lama: He’s the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Chinese don’t exactly care for him, and he once blessed Bill Murray’s Caddyshack character, Carl Spackler, rather than tip him for caddying. Here’s what I didn’t know about the...
The Land Rover Defender SUV is back! In the United States that is. After a 22-year absence, the iconic 4×4 is available on this side of the pond for the first time since 1997. But this is not the standard, stripped-down utilitarian, toolbox on wheels that has...
At 63 feet long and weighing more than 60 tons, the old sperm whale was truly a leviathan from the depths. The bull’s ghost gray hide was worn from age and heavily scarred from decades of fights with deep-roaming squid and battles with rival males competing for...
“Dunlap’s Gelatinous Bobcat Urine.” I’m starting to wonder about Amazon’s suggestion process. Apparently, at some point I either looked at or purchased an item that led Amazon to believe I’d be interested in buying some bobcat urine – in...
Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett explored the unexplorable, shot and killed the longest anaconda ever recorded, served in the British Secret Service and died looking for a nonexistent city. The latter is used by educated women to prove that men would rather die than ask...
The idea came to Richard Sanders over a blazing campfire at the end of a very successful safari in South Africa. As he recalls, “I had taken six animals and I began thinking, what am I going to do with all these game skins? It seemed like such a waste to keep just...
