How to Keep Your Dog Hydrated

How to Keep Your Dog Hydrated

Paying extra careful attention to hydrating your dog in warm temperatures is important. Use these tips to help him keep his cool this season. SPONSORED CONTENT For some of the year, bird season openers along with field trials and hunt tests are accompanied by warm...
A Guide to Guides

A Guide to Guides

These professional hunters anglers understand there is no substitute for spending time in the field or on the water. During my career as an outdoors writer, I have worked with hundreds of fishing and hunting guides while on story assignments and worked as a guide...
Reconsidering Recoil: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt

Reconsidering Recoil: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt

Recoil. It doesn’t have to be painful. But will a rifle with less recoil compromise your ability to terminate what you shoot? You’ll get a kick out of this. Lord knows the Kid did. His name has been changed to minimize his embarrassment. We told him the bleeding would...
Tips for Safe, Successful Archery Hunts

Tips for Safe, Successful Archery Hunts

How to prevent injuries and prepare for a safe, successful archery hunt this season The general-season archery bull elk permits (which are unlimited) went on sale online on July 16. That archery hunt and the buck mule deer archery hunt begins Saturday, August 15 and...
How to Plan a Successful Fishing Trip

How to Plan a Successful Fishing Trip

Having a successful fishing trip depends on how you plan for success. Planning will help regardless if your goal is to catch a state record fish, or escape from chores for the day. Remember that some days we catch fish on bare hooks, while others days we just go...
Simple Setup: All You Need to Start Fishing

Simple Setup: All You Need to Start Fishing

The truth is that a stick, string, hook, weight and optional bobber is all it takes to have a fun evening of fishing at the lake. Visit any fishing tackle store and you might be overwhelmed with the selection of what is “required” to go fishing. There are lures, jigs,...