Canada Pays Hunters To Kill Moose
Canada pays hunters to shoot moose? Just when I think I’ve got modern Homo sapiens figured out, they muddy the waters. Consider the $731,000 Canadians have spent hiring First Nations people — Mi’kmaq hunters, according to the news report I read — to “hunt” moose that...
Hunting the Bezoar Ibex
Bezoar ibex average 140 pounds and possess extremely long, characteristically knobby horns in relation to body size, making it one of the most attractive members of the ibex family. With my rifle resting on a suitcase-sized boulder, I could not get situated for a shot...
Not Your Average Outdoor Influencer
In the age of social media, few outdoor accounts truly stand out and leave one feeling inspired. In an increasingly crowded space, authenticity is quite rare. The rise of outdoor influencers has equally good and bad consequences—with the latter getting more attention....
Ringing Anticosti’s Bell
A late November nor’easter bludgeoned Anticosti into patinaed greys and smoky lodens. Squalling bands of horizontal snow bowed tall and scraggly firs hard to lee. Foot thick epaulets of heavy rime worn by branches of stubby spruce would have glisten had there been the...
12 Year Old Boy Takes First Elk Thanks to NFL QB
Other than a BB gun, 12-year-old John Gegen had never fired a rifle of any kind. That is, until he went on a recent elk hunt to Colorado where he shot and dropped a nice bull. That adventure happened thanks to Carson Wentz, quarterback of the Super Bowl champion...
Elk Hunt at Two-Ocean Pass
TR was especially pleased with the bull, but what he couldn’t know was that he would bag eight more elk, including an even bigger trophy. Clad in buckskin hunting shirt, moccasins and leggings, the hunter crept silently toward the bull elk and his harem as they grazed...
Avedon & Colby’s New All-Terrain Field Pants
Deliver Performance and Function Without Sacrificing Quality, Comfort and Style (Black Earth, WI) Avedon & Colby has introduced the ultimate All-Terrain Field Pant. Sewn from a combination of 7 oz. and 10 oz. 100% cotton All-Terrain canvas, the new pants offer all...
Duncan Dobie’s Dawn of American Deer Hunting: Volume II
Order online at www.SportingClassicsStore.com, or call 800-849-1004. Duncan Dobie’s first Dawn of American Deer Hunting has been a best-seller among deer enthusiasts and hunters. Now, Volume II is even bigger and grander. The new book features 240 pages with nearly...
In Pursuit of the Beceite Ibex
Slowly negotiating our way over the side of a dangerously steep, boulder-ridden mountain, we spied a herd of ibex in the distance, feeding on the same slope. With daylight fading on a dangerously rocky slope in the Beceite Mountains of Spain, pessimism ran rampant in...
Wildlife Habitat Management Wins in Court
MISSOULA, Mont.—A U.S. District Court judge ruled a habitat management project in west-central Montana designed to benefit wildlife will go forward as planned. The Johnny Crow Project will utilize prescribed burning and the removal of invasive junipers into grasslands...