The Magic Hour

The Magic Hour

The sun is setting on a brilliant hunting career. Though his big game hunting bag isn’t particularly mixed, it is well stocked. A couple of pronghorn antelope, one empty elk tag. Maybe a hundred deer across a forty-year career, many of which were bagged when...

Alaska Hunt: 5 Essential Tips

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...

Whitetail Hunting in 1810

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...

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