Sunday Shenanigans: The Law

Sunday Shenanigans: The Law

When modern deer hunting seasons were first established in Georgia during the late 1950s and early ’60s, it was against the law to hunt on Sunday in many (if not all) Georgia counties. Sometimes these laws were enforced and sometimes they weren’t,...
A Wish Granted: 3 Days at Patagonia’s Tipiliuke Lodge

A Wish Granted: 3 Days at Patagonia’s Tipiliuke Lodge

In a three-day span I’d stalked a red stag, fished for browns and rainbows, then ended up with an exciting hunt for boar. I enjoyed them all at Tipiliuke. Sam Nede arrived at the beach well before daylight. Here on Captiva Island the shell hunters would soon be...
Michigan Man Charged: 125 Wildlife Crimes

Michigan Man Charged: 125 Wildlife Crimes

A Chippewa County, Michigan man is charged with 125 wildlife crimes following DNR investigation. A 56-year-old Pickford man was arraigned Wednesday morning ­in Chippewa County’s 91st District Court on 125 wildlife misdemeanor charges, following a months-long...
NRA’s Steel Magnolias

NRA’s Steel Magnolias

Meet some of the women who are infusing the NRA with high-octane energy, fresh thinking and the power of the purse…all with a feminine touch. The nickname “steel magnolias” first imprinted on the rest of the world by way of the 1989 movie of the same...
The Captain and Me

The Captain and Me

Fifty years later, the old men were boys once again. I suppose there was a time when the Captain and I did not know one another, when he did not call me a smart ass, but neither of us can recall when that might have been. We are about half senile now, or at least we...
The $100,000 Deer

The $100,000 Deer

Lessons in Cold War economics and stag hunting with the KGB under the hammer and sickle of Soviet Communism. Did I ever tell you about the time I paid a hundred thousand dollars for a deer? The money wasn’t mine of course, and it was in rubles, Russian money,...
Dispatch from FTW Ranch SAAM Course: Day 4

Dispatch from FTW Ranch SAAM Course: Day 4

Every single person I met at FTW Ranch was kind, supportive, helpful and enjoyable, and I am leaving here not just with new knowledge, but a lot of new friends. Fredo and I met at 6 a.m. to hunt for hogs again this morning. It had just finished raining and was still...