The Gilded Age of Whitetail Hunting (Early 1900s)
Chapter 2 from Duncan Dobie's Dawn of American Deer Hunting available for purchase here. Order before 12/18 to ensure Christmas delivery. The Gilded Age in America was a 30-year period of rapid growth, expansion and industrialization that took place from the end of...
Alaska Hunt: Ten Essential Tips (Part Two)
This article originally appeared at RonSpomerOutdoors.com In her previous blog on RSO, Alaska hunting guide and bush pilot Tia Shoemaker gave us five great AK hunt tips for a successful hunting experience in her neck of the woods. In this blog she gives us five more....
MidwayUSA Supports DSC as 2019 Diamond Level Corporate Sponsor
(Nov. 30, 2018 - DALLAS) -- With gratitude, DSC, along with Sports Afield, recognizes MidwayUSA as a Diamond level sponsor for the 2019 Convention, Mogambo: Dagga Boy Danger. Because of the endorsement of generous companies such as MidwayUSA, DSC's mission of...
Alaska Hunt: 5 Essential Tips
This article first appeared on Ron Spomer Outdoors An Alaska hunt is a romantic ideal for many, but the reality is it’s cold, wet, windy and just plain hard sometimes. Most of the time on the Alaska Peninsula. In this two-part article professional guide Tia Shoemaker...
Hunters take 99 Elk during Pennsylvania 2018 Season
Bull hunters fare better, but overall elk hunt a success. Nearly 100 lucky participants in Pennsylvania’s 2018 elk hunt have taken home a trophy. Ninety-nine elk were taken by 125 hunters during the regular one-week elk season that ended Nov. 10. And for those...
Join NASCAR drivers Ryan Newman and Martin Truex as they Escape to Elk Country
Whitetail Hunting in 1810
This comes from the final portion of Chapter 6 in Forty-Four Years in the Life of a Hunter (1859) and captures the author’s activities when at the height of his considerable hunting powers. Shortly after returning to my home, three hunters and myself agreed to go to...
SCI Shows New Face To The World
Today SCI launched a new website as part of its campaign to tell the hunter's story to the world. In an era when social media storms spring up, instantly criticizing hunting, SCI is putting a new face forward to let the whole world know that hunters are good people...
Almost a Lion Story
I had just settled down to pen a story about a man-eating lion stalking a hunter through darkest Africa. The hunter was in turn tracking a wounded water buffalo and the dense vegetation was going to bring all three into close contact at the watering hole. Clearly,...
Another Timberghost Trophy Buck
Up to my hunt last week at Timberghost Ranch in southeastern Iowa, I considered myself a pretty good judge of whitetail antlers. Not anymore. Sitting in a comfortable stand with my stepson, Scott Morrison, and his guide Brian Field, I noticed a buck off to my left...