The Black Bear Cometh
“You best come here and look at this!” demanded my cameraman. He stood pointing at the ground immediately in front of our tent. “Something big tore up the ground and chewed on saplings. Whatever it was doesn’t seem to appreciate our presence here! Could be a bear, or...
Do Not Hunt Bears
Here we go again. A reader —a refreshingly polite one this time — told RonSpomerOutdoors.com Do Not Hunt Bears. That’s great because I invited everyone’s comments. She was referencing a blog I’d posted titled “Should We Hunt Big Predators?” Here is her heartfelt...
Boone and Crockett Club: A Win for Big Game
MISSOULA, Mont. (October 24, 2018) – The Boone and Crockett Club, the name synonymous with big game hunting and conservation, today applauded Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s announcement that the lands western big game species depend upon as migration...
Uncle Perk’s Deer Lure
Originally published as one of his “The Lower Forty” columns in Field & Stream, this story is Chapter 29 of The Best of Corey Ford (1975). It is vintage Ford in not only the cast of characters but with wry humor and a disparaging poke at all the folderol...
Pope & Young Announces New World Record Bear
Chatfield, MN – In late September of this year, the Pope and Young Club brought together a Special Panel of Judges in Windsor, Colorado for a potential P&Y World Record Alaskan brown bear. Chris Cammack’s enormous bear was shot on the Alaskan Peninsula in...
Excerpt from “Incoming” by Robert Parvin Williams
In the last light of the safari’s final day, Ian Batchelor and I followed blood and hoof prints into a thicket. The buffalo could not be much further: both shots had hit well, and we had already trailed him nearly half a mile. William, the tracker, crouched low just...
RMEF, SAF Oppose Yellowstone Grizzly Ruling
MISSOULA, Mont.—The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation disagree with a judge’s decision to vacate the delisting of the Greater Yellowstone grizzly population by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ruling places the population back on...
Hunting is a Bear Necessity
Wildlife research supports black bear hunting in New Jersey
Old World Mouflon
It was a lone mouflon ram. And what a ram he was!