The Rogue Sow

The Rogue Sow

An excerpt as it appears in Alaska Bears, Stirred and Shaken. Jake guides two German guest hunters after an irritated grizzly. I took two of the younger Germans, my fine Labrador, Max, and an assistant guide, Andy, down the valley to the south. The bear was maybe...

Announcing Our 2019 September/October Issue

Announcing Our 2019 September/October Issue

Features: Ben Lilly The last mountain man. By Duncan Dobie Where Trout Mingle With Dragons  A father-son adventure in Bhutan delivers lasting memories. By Dan Oko Passing It On  How do you instill patience and other important virtues in a young boy? By Malcolm Brooks...

Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost

Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost

It was 1998 and my wife’s uncle had received exclusive permission from a farmer’s widow to hunt a hundred or more acres of farmland bordered by swamp and hardwood forest in Duplin County, North Carolina.  He’d hunted the land since opening day, and for most of that...

An Excerpt From: In The Land Of The Lakota

An Excerpt From: In The Land Of The Lakota

Mike Jr. was going for a whitetail he’d been after for a couple of years. He was hoping to climb up a certain tree stand close to the buck’s travel corridor. But the shifting wind changed all that. “There was actually one deer in there that was bigger than that one,”...

Rattlesnakes Among Friends

Rattlesnakes Among Friends

“You boys got to keep your eyes peeled for those diamondbacks,” Pierre said. He was butchering fish by the light of a Coleman, flounder fresh from the creek. “This time of year, they lookin’ for anything warm. Crawl right in your sleeping bag.” Pierre was fixing to...