Time for Spring Antler Hunts
It's that time of year, ladies and gentlemen, when we hunt for the hidden gems! While the fall and winter hunting seasons have faded into memory and geese and ducks are starting to reverse their wandering course and now fly north, I have the strong urge to head...
The Great Emu War
Ugly, shaggy, wide in the hips, quarrelsome, six feet tall, prone to grunting, sneaky as the cagiest Appalachian gobblers, with spurs that can rip down steel fences and a brain the size of a small walnut ... no, not your mother-in-law, but potentially a new game...
The Butt of the Joke
Only when Mike pushed me did I stop. He was saving me from an embarrassing error. I like to hunt, and even enjoy going to deer and elk camps, though pesky hooman rules keep me from participating in most of the hunting action. I like chasing deer, elk, pronghorns (fill...
Most Embarrassing Mistake In Gunmaking
For gunmaker Al Biesen, misspelling Jack O’Connor’s name was a tiny mistake, but something he would never be able to live down. Spokane was as far from her family as my rightfully cautious bride would move, at least in the direction of Montana’s elk country, so we set...
Benelli New Super Black Eagle 3
Benelli’s New 3-inch-chambered 28-gauge Super Black Eagle 3 brings with it an unmistakeable air of confidence to its owner. SPONSORED CONTENT Benelli’s new 3-inch-chambered 28-gauge Super Black Eagle 3 semi-auto shotgun combines professional-level performance with a...
The Smile of Death in Africa
Largest of all reptiles, the crocodile is arguably the deadliest creature ever to walk or swim the face of the earth. Water beckons to most of the world. The inland bodies: lakes, streams, rivers and ponds, shimmer blue and tempting, time of passage, a respite from...
Eleven Timely and Timeless Sculptors
No art form can touch all people with the same force, but it would be hard to imagine a medium with more universal appeal than the bronze statue. It can be sculpted into a delicate hummingbird resting on a tabletop, heaped and hewn into a life-size grizzly guarding a...
Buffalo Dream, Bison Nightmares
No time to fart or fumble, on my belly with a beast that had tried to kill a man only the day before. Willard Sumption had a buffalo ranch a little south of Aberdeen in that rolling country east of the Missouri breaks. Willard had one bad eye from the time two of his...
EUKANUBA Launches Ambassador Program
EUKANUBA is announcing its Ambassador program at the EUKANUBA GEAR UP Summit in Nashville, TN on March 7-9. Bringing together an influential group of top sporting industry professionals this program aims to educate on the research that goes into EUKANUBA's Premium...
When It Is Enough
We would hunt one last time in the morning, one last time before he went away. I would gift that to myself. How swiftly and irreversibly, Danny's season had arrived. From the day almost 10 years before, when first I had invested a portion of my heart in a fledgling...