by Ron Spomer | Feb 24, 2021
Why would any 21st century woman want to hunt?
by Ron Spomer | Feb 3, 2021
If the bullet fails, even the world’s most expensive rifle and advanced scope are superfluous. So how do you choose the ideal hunting bullet? How do you choose the ideal hunting bullet? A reader recently asked the following: Good day. I enjoy your articles Ron, but I...
by Ron Spomer | Jan 15, 2021
Aging bucks on the hoof is as much art as science. You won’t get it right every time, but keep trying.
by Ron Spomer | Jan 7, 2021
And an effective alternative.
by Ron Spomer | Dec 4, 2020
The .22 rimfire, like the small game hunting that inspired it, is rapidly becoming a historical artifact. And it’s up to us to stop that. You remember it like yesterday. A .22 rimfire. Your first real firearm. Oh, the possibilities. The adventures. The anticipation....
by Ron Spomer | Nov 13, 2020
It was the 6.5 Creedmoor of the 1960s. Flying off the shelves. Everyone was chambering it. Everyone who didn’t shoot it wanted to. Or they pretended they didn’t. Remington’s 7mm magnum blew Winchester’s 264 magnum right off the plains and into early retirement....
by Ron Spomer | Sep 25, 2020
It is up to the next generation of dedicated conservation hunters to protect, enhance and defend America’s millions of acres of public land. Richard stood five feet, two inches and wrestled. He wrestled on the mat in college, wrestled steer carcasses from the...
by Ron Spomer | Sep 10, 2020
Recoil. It doesn’t have to be painful. But will a rifle with less recoil compromise your ability to terminate what you shoot? You’ll get a kick out of this. Lord knows the Kid did. His name has been changed to minimize his embarrassment. We told him the bleeding would...
by Ron Spomer | Jun 18, 2020
With 7,000 firearms and 30,000 related artifacts on display, the Cody Firearms Museum has the world’s most comprehensive collection of American firearms. Roughhewn men walked the streets with guns. Aggressive kids plinked at cans in backyards and sharp-eyed...
by Ron Spomer | May 11, 2020
Anyone and everyone who encourages the growth of predator populations is actually contributing to increased animal suffering in the wild. After centuries of uninformed overuse and abuse of wildlife, American conservationists/scientists in the early 20th century...