The Ghost of Camelot Ridge

The Ghost of Camelot Ridge

Every so often, it occurs to me that I am, without question, one of the luckiest guys in the world.  It’s a brash statement, no doubt, and I hope that it doesn’t come off as bragging, because that’s not how I mean it. To me, it just means that I understand, and that...
Something Old, Something New

Something Old, Something New

The loved and despised 6.5 Creedmoor seems to have started it. This new cartridge craze. This reinvention of the tried and true. And now the 6.5 PRC, 6.5 RPM, 6.5-300 Weatherby, 26 Nosler….  “It’s just those gun and ammo companies trying to gin up sales!”   But of...
Treasures in the Mail

Treasures in the Mail

Mention the golden age of sporting art, 1890 to 1930, and immediately we think of the beautiful calendars, broadsides and magazine illustrations produced by a group of American artists who will probably never be surpassed.   The best of them did advertising work...
Krieghoff K-20 Parcours

Krieghoff K-20 Parcours

The Krieghoff K-20 Parcours is as adept on the sporting clays course as it is in the field. SPONSORED CONTENT  This well-balanced beauty makes an ideal wingshooting companion to the K-80 everyone loves. The K-20 Parcours’ refined design carries easily regardless of...
Magnum Velocity Bags Shooters, Not Game

Magnum Velocity Bags Shooters, Not Game

It’s a fact that magnum velocity and terminal projectile energy don’t matter much. So why do we have all these magnum velocity cartridges? We hunters often like to point out that magnum velocity and terminal projectile energy don’t matter much because the game...
Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Scope Bite

Once Bitten, Twice Shy: The Scope Bite

Arguably worse than any snake bite, when the rifle scope bites, it’s only a matter of seconds until the blood and the tears start to flow. There are seven venomous snakes in my home state of Oklahoma – the copperhead, the cottonmouth and five different species of...
Legacies Lost and Found: The Ithaca 20 Gauge

Legacies Lost and Found: The Ithaca 20 Gauge

The lost Ithaca 20 gauge of his boyhood would be the only thing he could leave to his daughter to pass on the legacy…or so he thought. Michael wiped the sweat from his brow with an old grease towel from his grandfather’s workbench and slumped to the floor. He...