Home on the Range
Enjoying the abundance of wildlife on the American prairie.
Hunting Elk on Colorado Public Land
With over-the-counter licenses and on publicly hunted Forest Service land.
Whiskey from a Coffee Cup
“Camp…Four miles! Up, down, then up long way!” spoke my smiling Sonoran guide.
I May Have to Shoot This One
I suppose, if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same...
Sounds Like Thunder
The plains were black with bison. The thunderous sound grew louder as the distance between the men and beasts quickly vanished.
Alaska Flying: Surviving Plane Accidents
With more than 50 years of experience as an Alaskan hunting guide, Jake Jacobson has encountered his fair share of mishaps, including plane accidents.
John Scurr New Zealand Hunting Tours
Long before Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy put New Zealand on everyone’s travel list, hunters and anglers long coveted the island nation’s riches of fish and game. It is a sportsman’s Jurassic Park, where beasts grow to near-mythic dimensions and the...
A Record Twice Lost
For ten minutes I held my 8x binoculars on it; then it moved. Like magic the tremendous outline of a big ram’s head came into focus, and I almost choked on a mouthful of cold bannock at the size of it.
A Forest Chase
The following narrative is excerpted from Hunting Adventures in the Northern Wilds, A Tramp in the Chateaugay Woods, Over Hills, Lakes and Forest Streams, by S. H. Hammond, published in 1856. As the author travels into the back country wilderness of northern New York...
Sanctuary Ranch: The Deer of Your Dreams
“Change” is the operative word at Sanctuary Ranch these days. Under construction is a 11,000-square-foot lodge that will provide luxury private bungalows, in lodge suites and a state-of-the-art culinary experience. A new fleet of ORVs are available for every hunter....