A Christmas Buck
TR gets meat and memories from a pre-Christmas deer hunt.
River Spell
The secluded river and soul-quieting snow…together they would cast just the right spell for losing himself while regaining a sense of belonging. Day 1: I am all by myself in the canoe, maybe on this whole river given the time of year and the fact that for days...
A Trip Back To Yesteryear (Pre-1900)
Why are American deer hunters so infatuated with the past? What is it about looking at old pictures from yesteryear that stirs our very being? Hunting touches the soul. When we go back in time and see how our grandfathers and great grandfathers took to the woods and...
Visions from the Veldt – Kim Donaldson
A touchstone of Donaldson’s work is his ability to translate the feeling one gets in encountering tremendous volumes of open space. Kim Donaldson could do nothing to prevent his eyelids from closing. His mind was drifting in and out of fitful sleep and his body,...
White Death in the Icy Wind
The scent of an unknown flesh grew stronger and stronger in the bear’s nose as he ambled towards its source. He, too, was looking for fresh meat. Sergeant Long dutifully studied the distance between ice flows, completely unaware that he was being hunted....
A Company of Gentlemen Adventurers
The huge beast literally ripped off Pickering’s head.
Attacked by a Leopard!
Although Robert Ruark was regularly exposed to dangerous animals during his hunts, and though he had a great many narrow escapes, he only got hurt once. This happened on shikar in 1962, in the Madhya Pradesh region near Betul in Central India. There, a wounded leopard...
Killing a Lion With a Knife
Harry Wolhuter, a ranger in South Africa’s Kruger National Park for 44 years, led an amazing life. From Wolhuter’s memoir comes his amazing escape from a pair of hungry lions.
