The Magic Hour

The Magic Hour

The sun is setting on a brilliant hunting career. Though his big game hunting bag isn’t particularly mixed, it is well stocked. A couple of pronghorn antelope, one empty elk tag. Maybe a hundred deer across a forty-year career, many of which were bagged when...
Alaska Hunt: Ten Essential Tips (Part Two)

Alaska Hunt: Ten Essential Tips (Part Two)

This article originally appeared at RonSpomerOutdoors.com In her previous blog on RSO, Alaska hunting guide and bush pilot Tia Shoemaker gave us five great AK hunt tips for a successful hunting experience in her neck of the woods. In this blog she gives us five more....
Alaska Hunt: 5 Essential Tips

Alaska Hunt: 5 Essential Tips

This article first appeared on Ron Spomer Outdoors An Alaska hunt is a romantic ideal for many, but the reality is it’s cold, wet, windy and just plain hard sometimes. Most of the time on the Alaska Peninsula. In this two-part article professional guide Tia Shoemaker...
Whitetail Hunting in 1810

Whitetail Hunting in 1810

This comes from the final portion of Chapter 6 in Forty-Four Years in the Life of a Hunter (1859) and captures the author’s activities when at the height of his considerable hunting powers.  Shortly after returning to my home, three hunters and myself agreed to go to...
SCI Shows New Face To The World

SCI Shows New Face To The World

Today SCI launched a new website as part of its campaign to tell the hunter’s story to the world. In an era when social media storms spring up, instantly criticizing hunting, SCI is putting a new face forward to let the whole world know that hunters are good...
Almost a Lion Story

Almost a Lion Story

I had just settled down to pen a story about a man-eating lion stalking a hunter through darkest Africa. The hunter was in turn tracking a wounded water buffalo and the dense vegetation was going to bring all three into close contact at the watering hole.  Clearly,...