The Baptism of Jamie McAlester
The McAlesters were a family of hunters. They were also ruthless in their ways. Logan McAlester saw to that. He and his boys collected their meat any way they could, day or night, summer or winter. None of the McAlester clan ever paid attention to seasons or bag...
Trout Fishing Tips and Tricks
Trout fishing is a great Iowa tradition and the state’s Department of Natural Resources offers these tips to help you be a more successful trout angler. Iowa’s first fish hatchery was built in 1874 near Anamosa to raise trout. As interest in trout fishing grew and...
Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey Reaches Nearly 3 Million Viewers in Third Quarter Alone
Officials from Dorsey Pictures, the world’s largest producer of outdoor adventure television and the only production company with outdoor DNA named to Real Screen Magazine’s annual Global 100 list, announced that the new series Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey has...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Mountain Goat Missed
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. The very name of mountain goat makes you see the towering crests of peaks searching the sky, wrapped in clouds, the drifting snow swirling in veiled sheets from...
Antler Restriction Effects
Q: I have been hunting whitetail deer more than 60 years and have a question about antler growth, genes and antler restrictions imposed in certain parts of Texas by the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department. I have had many conversations with game biologists, game...
10 Ways To Be A Better Cougar Hunter
According to Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Oregon’s population of about 6,000 cougars occupies a wide variety of habitat across the state, offering a year-round, readily-accessible hunting opportunity. Their nocturnal habits and stealthy character make...
Serial Numbers 1 and 2 Winchester Pre-’64 Model 70 Rifles Offered By Sportsman’s Legacy
Absent anything short of absolute certainty, each of these rifles stands among the world’s most important and valuable sporting arms. That they are paired presents an unequaled acquisition opportunity. Both rifles have a captivating history. According to Roger...
Tips For A Successful Deer Hunting In Michigan
If you’re planning on deer hunting in Michigan this year, the state DNR offers these tips to think about as you get ready for the season. Talk to a biologist Your local biologist is a wealth of information. Wildlife biologists not only have a broad scientific...
Bear Hunting In Japan
Suddenly the branch snapped, and once again I experienced that awful sensation of falling. And just as suddenly, I lost consciousness. As we left the port of Yokohama for bear hunting in Japan, dropped slowly down the bay of Yedo, passed through the Uraga channel and...
Iowa DNR Picks Favorite Fall Trout Fishing Streams
Get out and explore northeast Iowa’s trout streams this fall. From easily accessible streams in state or county parks, to streams in Iowa’s most wild and remote natural spaces – there's a perfect spot for everyone. Perfect for beginners Grannis Creek, Fayette County –...
Oklahoma Quail Numbers Increase Statewide
This year’s Quail Roadside Surveys across Oklahoma show a statewide population index of observed birds that is up 23.6 percent over 2018. Heavy spring rains led to a delayed start to the nesting season for Oklahoma’s upland game birds but brought on an excellent forb...
Michigan DNR Adds 2,000 Acres Of Public Land
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources recently closed a deal to acquire the Storey Lake property after nearly two decades of negotiating to purchase the land. The property – which includes the entire 8-acre Storey Lake and about a mile of Stewart Creek – is in...
The Deer-Hunting Vampire Squirrel
The newly discovered vampire squirrel kills, guts, and feeds on deer deep in Borneo’s vast jungles.
Steyr Arms Salutes American Veterans With Special Pricing & Donations
SPONSORED CONTENT Steyr Arms announces special pricing for veterans and a November donation pledge to the Special Operation Warriors Foundation. One hundred years ago, on the eleventh day of November, President Woodrow Wilson decreed that the end of World War I—and...
2019 New Hampshire Moose Hunt Success Rate Above Average
New Hampshire’s 2019 moose season wrapped up with hunters taking a total of 38 moose – 31 bulls and 7 cows – according to preliminary numbers from New Hampshire Fish and Game Department Moose Biologist Henry Jones. That means that hunters achieved a 76-percent success...
Horses I Have Known: The Inhaler
Some horses have learned that by taking in a lung full of air when they are being saddled, they can avoid being squeezed by the cinch strap. The cinch strap, or saddle girth, is the wide band that secures the saddle (and therefore you) to the horse. Whenever mounting...
Banovich Signs “King of Beasts”
John Banovich arrived at Lone Oak Publishing headquarters November 5 to begin signing every copy of King of Beasts. [metaslider id=37721]
New Record Gerrard Rainbow Trout
Congratulations to Sophie E. on setting a new catch-and-release record Gerrard rainbow trout! The 8-year old angler wrangled up the 36.5 inch monster while trolling flies on Idaho's famous Lake Pend Oreille in early October 2019. Renowned fishing writer...
Once A Spike Always A Spike?
Q. Larry, last week you wrote “Genetics determines shape and size of antlers. Genetic antler potential can only be attained with good daily nutrition and achieving maturity. But realize too, a smaller antlered buck bred to the ‘right’ doe could produce offspring with...
Wisconsin Black Bear Science
Black Bear hunters in Wisconsin have long recognized the importance of the data they provide from harvested bears to the long-term health and sustainability of the state’s black bear population. Each year, successful hunters report the sex of their bear and the...
NJ Outdoorsmen And Women Advised To Take Precautions Against Eastern Equine Encephalitis
The Division of Fish and Wildlife is advising hunters, as well as anyone who spends time outdoors, to take precautions against mosquito bites as the first reported case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) in deer in New Jersey has recently been documented in Winslow...
Safe Hunting at High Altitudes
I had just finished graduate school and, as a gift to myself, I arranged to meet with friends in Colorado for my first western elk hunt. I flew from Detroit (elevation 646 feet) to Denver (elevation 5,373 feet) in a little under three hours. I then made the three-hour...
Morphy Blockbuster $10M Firearms Auction
Intense bidding drove many rare, historically important guns to prices well beyond pre-sale expectations on October 23rd where Morphy Auctions sold the widely acclaimed gun that fired the first shot at the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill for $492,000. The company’s...
Georgia Program Offers Deer Management Assistance On Private Land
Georgia’s Deer Management Assistance Program (DMAP) is a new program dedicated to assisting hunt clubs and landowners manage deer on private lands. DMAPs are not a new concept in the Southeast. In fact, more southern states have them than not. This program gained...
Bears By Boat
On the largest Pacific island this side of New Zealand, the best way to hunt its huge beachcombing bears is by boat. The bear, rotund and grazing like an angus heifer, didn’t hear the purring of the 25-horse outboard, didn’t detect the splash of rubber boots hitting...
Mom, The Official “Tick-Checker”
Protect your family from ticks – and Dad! When you venture outdoors with your family, you will likely encounter ticks and other potentially harmful parasites. Ticks and the like tend to climb up your legs to the most vulnerable and intimate of places, secret places...
5 Deer Hunting Tips To Up Your Odds On Public Land
According to the Quality Deer Management Association’s 2019 Whitetail Report, approximately 60 percent of Arkansas deer hunters each year check at least one deer. This success rate is the fourth-highest for deer hunters in the nation. Considering more than 350,000...
Florida Deer Importation Requirements
If you hunt outside of Florida, please be aware of new requirements related to importing deer carcasses into Florida to reduce the risk of chronic wasting disease spreading into the state. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) issued Executive...
A Striking Pair Of Hill Country Rifles
Hill Country Rifles is a lot like the Psalmists in the Old Testament. They restoreth my soul.It isn’t that high-tech, synthetic stocked rifles aren’t tough, reliable, deadly accurate and good looking. It’s that they have no warmth, no soul. They’re like a runway...
Perfect Pairings At Wing & Barrel Ranch
Seldom do hunters pair superlative upland gunning – pheasants, chukar and quail – with Sonoma County or the Napa Valley. The region’s reputation seems reserved for wines, but around 1900, about 50 years after the first commercial vintners were established, ringnecks...
Buck-To-Doe Ratio And Antler Size
Q: Larry, my friends think I’m crazy, but I think the buck-to-doe ratio has an effect on antler development. My hypothesis is that with fewer does, the competition to breed is fiercer and thus only those deer that are stronger and that have larger antlers will win...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Hunting For Meat
This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. Rarely is the sportsman so situated that he absolutely depends upon game for food, though as one penetrates farther into the North, the sight of hungry Indians is...
Rigby Completes First .577 Rising Bite For More Than A Century
London gunmaker John Rigby & Co. has completed its first rising bite in .577 Nitro Express for more than 100 years. The double rifle was made for a valued client, who wished it to be a tribute to Satao, the famous Tsavo tusker. It includes an exquisite floorplate...
Honoring The 150th Birthday Of Carl Rungius
Carl Moritz Clemens Rungius is widely regarded as the greatest painter of North American big game animals. He witnessed firsthand the decline of large mammals on the continent when there was an unregulated open season that put some species on the brink of extinction....
Return Radio Collars From Harvested Deer
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is encouraging anyone who finds or harvests an animal with a radio collar or transmitter to return that collar as soon as possible to any Game and Fish office or employee. “Many animals from deer to moose are fitted with collars...
8 Points About Deer Antlers
1. They’re antlers, not horns. The major difference between horns and antlers is that horns don’t shed and are almost always a permanent part of the animal. Antlers are made of bone and have a velvet phase, in which blood is supplied to the antler to help it grow....
Legends Of The Hunt: Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt’s resolve, his utterly fearless nature and unmatched determination were never more apparent than on this mountain lion hunt in Colorado. In January 1901, the year Theodore Roosevelt became president, he embarked on a five-week hunt for cougar with...
Catching the Sockeye Train
My reel was hissing as line ran off it. My ten-weight fly rod was bent and shaking. My heart was beating rapidly as I felt the strong sockeye salmon fighting at the end of the line. That fish had hit my red wet fly eight feet in front of me in just over a foot of...
Great Lakes Ruffed Grouse West Nile Virus Study
First-year results from a multi-state West Nile virus study show that while the virus is present in some ruffed grouse in the Great Lakes region, some birds exposed to the virus survive. More than 700 hunter-provided samples from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin were...
Photography Tips From New York Department of Environmental Conservation
During and after a memorable hunt, most hunters want that perfect picture to remember it. With the increased quality of cell phone cameras and the use of social media, it is easier than ever to capture and share that special moment! However, it is important to...
Assist In Wildlife Research
Hunters can help the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s wildlife management efforts through the AGFC’s free Deer Hunting Observation Survey available through the AGFC app on their smartphone. The app is available through both the iTunes app store and the Google Play...
Horses I Have Known: The Scraper/Impaler
This horse seems to take every opportunity to relieve itself of an annoying rider (you) by sliding under low-hanging limbs, trying to impale you on broken branches or scraping you off against trees, rocks or other horses. I once made the mistake of wearing an...
NY Deer Management Permits Available Nov. 1
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced that remaining deer management permits (DMPs) in several wildlife management units (WMUs) will be available to hunters beginning Nov. 1. DMPs, which allow hunters to harvest antlerless...
New 6,638 Acres Of Forest Open To Hunters
This summer, Weyerhaeuser Company enrolled 6,638 acres in the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (WDFW) Private Lands Access program. WDFW opened this section of forest as Feel Free to Hunt access this year. “We are excited that Weyerhaeuser Company has...
Socrates Becomes a Hunter
A boy's dog named Soc finally proves his worth as a gundog by flushing pheasants for the boy and his uncle. That first spring together evolved into a long, hot summer, seemingly endless for a boy hankering for his first pheasant season. Sweating through chores, I...
Participation Needed for New York Black Bear Hunter Survey
New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is partnering with the Center for Conservation Social Sciences (CCSS) at Cornell University on a survey of roughly 1,800 randomly-selected black bear hunters to learn more about their activities, interests and...
Minnesota DNR Certifies New Catch-And-Release State Record Muskie
An angler on Lake Vermilion caught and released Minnesota’s new state record muskellunge, a 57 ¼-inch fish that he called a “true giant.” The DNR certified the state catch-and-release record fish on Oct. 11. The 57 1/4-inch fish had a 25 1/2-inch girth with an...
2019-20 Arizona Quail Hunt Forecast Looks Good
Arizona’s quail hunters are also weather wonks — always checking the forecasts, particularly during the winter months, their fingers crossed that the wet stuff is on the way. After all, good doses of timely precipitation that time of year are what give the state’s...
Grouse In The Heather
Gordon, my loader, was a strong-looking older man of upright bearing, with full, florid cheeks and a friendly smile. He was responsible for me, my safety, my shotgun and shells. Gordon guided me to and from the butts and, although carrying my gun and shells, still had...
Colorado Expands Public Trust Lands
Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) recently announced locations of newly available properties enrolled in the Public Access Program. The Public Access Program provides seasonal hunting and fishing opportunities on Colorado trust land across the state. Blue Lake -...