Ideal Hunting Bullet: How To Choose

Ideal Hunting Bullet: How To Choose

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...
10 Reasons to Shoot a .22 Rimfire

10 Reasons to Shoot a .22 Rimfire

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....
Return to the Mighty Seven 

Return to the Mighty Seven 

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....
Mentoring Youth Hunters

Mentoring Youth Hunters

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...
Reconsidering Recoil: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt

Reconsidering Recoil: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt

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...
Not-So-Positive Predators

Not-So-Positive Predators

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...
All That Alaska Allows

All That Alaska Allows

You can do it all on Alaska’s rivers as long as you’ve got the right outfitter and guides.  The idea is traditional. Go to the wilderness. Fish and hunt. Everything. Moose. Bears. Waterfowl. Salmon. Whatever pops up. It’s what sportsmen used to do. It’s what they...