Alaska Flying: Surviving Plane Accidents
With more than 50 years of experience as an Alaskan hunting guide, Jake Jacobson has encountered his fair share of mishaps, including plane accidents.
This One’s On Me
The following is an excerpt of Chapter 3 from Mike Gaddis’s From A Higher Hill, featuring 65 explorations of the sporting life, the whole of which transcend contemporary perspective, and ascend to rare and unexcelled poignancy. Pardon the indulgence, my good fellows,...
Pig Medicine
Turning a .300 H&H Magnum on Texas’s feral hogs.
John Scurr New Zealand Hunting Tours
Long before Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy put New Zealand on everyone’s travel list, hunters and anglers long coveted the island nation’s riches of fish and game. It is a sportsman’s Jurassic Park, where beasts grow to near-mythic dimensions and the...
A Record Twice Lost
For ten minutes I held my 8x binoculars on it; then it moved. Like magic the tremendous outline of a big ram’s head came into focus, and I almost choked on a mouthful of cold bannock at the size of it.
A Forest Chase
The following narrative is excerpted from Hunting Adventures in the Northern Wilds, A Tramp in the Chateaugay Woods, Over Hills, Lakes and Forest Streams, by S. H. Hammond, published in 1856. As the author travels into the back country wilderness of northern New York...
Sanctuary Ranch: The Deer of Your Dreams
“Change” is the operative word at Sanctuary Ranch these days. Under construction is a 11,000-square-foot lodge that will provide luxury private bungalows, in lodge suites and a state-of-the-art culinary experience. A new fleet of ORVs are available for every hunter....
Escape From A Hell Hole
Finding a big billy wasn’t difficult, but getting his trophy out of the mountain wilderness would become the most perilous struggle of his life.
Hunting Oryx in the Journey of Death
A descent into a cauldron of scorched earth in pursuit of oryx.
Black Bear Danger
A man-eating bear stood between the hunter and his rifle.