An Artist In Big Game Country: Mountain Goat Missed

An Artist In Big Game Country: Mountain Goat Missed

This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. The very name of mountain goat makes you see the towering crests of peaks searching the sky, wrapped in clouds, the drifting snow swirling in veiled sheets from...
Tips For A Successful Deer Hunting In Michigan

Tips For A Successful Deer Hunting In Michigan

If you’re planning on deer hunting in Michigan this year, the state DNR offers these tips to think about as you get ready for the season. Talk to a biologist Your local biologist is a wealth of information. Wildlife biologists not only have a broad scientific...
Bear Hunting In Japan

Bear Hunting In Japan

Suddenly the branch snapped, and once again I experienced that awful sensation of falling. And just as suddenly, I lost consciousness. As we left the port of Yokohama for bear hunting in Japan, dropped slowly down the bay of Yedo, passed through the Uraga channel and...
Once A Spike Always A Spike?

Once A Spike Always A Spike?

Q. Larry, last week you wrote “Genetics determines shape and size of antlers. Genetic antler potential can only be attained with good daily nutrition and achieving maturity. But realize too, a smaller antlered buck bred to the ‘right’ doe could produce offspring with...
Morphy Blockbuster $10M Firearms Auction

Morphy Blockbuster $10M Firearms Auction

Intense bidding drove many rare, historically important guns to prices well beyond pre-sale expectations on October 23rd where Morphy Auctions sold the widely acclaimed gun that fired the first shot at the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill for $492,000. The company’s...
A Striking Pair Of Hill Country Rifles

A Striking Pair Of Hill Country Rifles

Hill Country Rifles is a lot like the Psalmists in the Old Testament. They restoreth my soul.It isn’t that high-tech, synthetic stocked rifles aren’t tough, reliable, deadly accurate and good looking. It’s that they have no warmth, no soul. They’re like a runway...