Escape From A Hell Hole
Finding a big billy wasn’t difficult, but getting his trophy out of the mountain wilderness would become the most perilous struggle of his life.
The Croc That Wouldn’t Die
I sat on the engine cowling, holding my rifle and studying the hideous design of the crocodile’s head. Then its eye opened.
How Benchrest Shooters Improve Your Hunting Rifle
“If you visited a benchrest competition today, you would see scores of rifles that, other than looking like they had been painted by a graffiti artist on a manic high, are not all that different in shape and weight from your heavy-barreled varmint rifle.”
Guns as Investments
How many investments can you name that virtually guarantee a sizable return on your money and also offer the added bonus of pride of ownership?
The $100,000 Deer
Lessons in Cold War economics and stag hunting with the KGB under the hammer and sickle of Soviet Communism. Did I ever tell you about the time I paid a hundred thousand dollars for a deer? The money wasn’t mine of course, and it was in rubles, Russian money,...
The Littlest Sheep
“After my good luck with ibex I thought the Armenian sheep would be a snap, but I figured wrong …”
The Great Buffalo Con Job
“The Cape buffalo has a well-earned reputation for being able to absorb a magazine full of thumb-sized bullets and still have enough meanness left to grind his adversary into the ground.”
Marvelous Creations
“Yep. That’s right. Bird dogs didn’t just happen, you know. They were invented.”
The Day I Shot the .700 Express
“Had they come to see the man practice his craft? Or were they more drawn by the specter of a man willingly and deliberately putting himself in harm’s way?”
One-Gun Pete
“Whoever said, ‘beware the man with one gun,’ must have had Pete in mind.”