What’s Your Favorite Hunt?

What’s Your Favorite Hunt?

It’s not what I’m hunting so much as where I’m hunting. And it’s not where I’m hunting so much as that I’m hunting. “Ron, what is your favorite hunt? What do you like to hunt most?” Readers and viewers often ask me that. It’s a legitimate question for which I’ve never...

Making Tools Out of Turkey

Making Tools Out of Turkey

By crafting knives, totes and other useful tools, you are taking an extra step as an ethical hunter by making the fullest possible use of your bird. Among turkey hunting enthusiasts, beards which dangle a foot from a turkey’s breast or have the breadth of the spine of...

Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

Roosevelt's cowboy cavalry, the Rough Riders, and their victory at the Battle of San Juan Hill made Roosevelt the most famous man in America in 1898. Back East, Theodore Roosevelt co-chaired a commission to beautify Niagara Falls and rooted out corruption from the...

The American Sportsman…Poised for a Rebound?

The American Sportsman…Poised for a Rebound?

Many have heard reports of the steady increase in hunting and fishing license sales in the past year, but what is really causing this shift? Hunting in History Hunting in America experienced its first major expansion in the years shortly after the end World War II. A...