Rigby Art Releases Limited Edition Stamps

Rigby Art Releases Limited Edition Stamps

London gunmaker John Rigby & Co.’s new art department has unveiled three new limited edition stamps by talented in-house engravers Geoffrey Lignon and Saija Koskialho. Each collection of 50 stamps feature either a European roebuck by Finnish artist Saija or...
Missouri Has A New Record Brown Trout

Missouri Has A New Record Brown Trout

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) confirms Bill Babler of Blue Eye is now the new state-record holder for brown trout after catching a monster 40-pound, 6-ounce fish at Lake Taneycomo Sept. 4 using a pole-and-line. The previous state brown trout record was...
Michigan DNR Offers Tips For Successful Deer Season

Michigan DNR Offers Tips For Successful Deer Season

Hopefully you have been out planning, preparing and refining your strategy all year long for the upcoming season. If you have, give yourself a pat on the back because you’ve earned it. If you’re like the rest of us, we have a few things to think about to get ready for...
Ruark On Safari: Hemingway

Ruark On Safari: Hemingway

An excerpt from Ruark Remembered by Alan Ritchie who served as Ruark’s personal secretary for 12 years. I had a feeling that Hemingway’s death affected Bob more than he would have admitted at the time, and, during the remainder of the safari he was puzzling out a...
An Artist In Big Game Country: Moose Mishap

An Artist In Big Game Country: Moose Mishap

This is an excerpt from an article that originally appeared in the August 1910 issue of Outing magazine. This day we were in the heart of moose country with an ideal landscape spread before us, glowing with the golden red of a northern sunset. I worked quickly,...
The Rogue Sow

The Rogue Sow

An excerpt as it appears in Alaska Bears, Stirred and Shaken. Jake guides two German guest hunters after an irritated grizzly. I took two of the younger Germans, my fine Labrador, Max, and an assistant guide, Andy, down the valley to the south. The bear was maybe...
Shooting Flying At A Legendary Chateau

Shooting Flying At A Legendary Chateau

Setting off to distant places to hunt can take you far beyond the sport. There’s the prospect of adventure and new wonders to behold. How people in foreign lands embrace life, prepare their food, savor their wines and sing their songs broaden your personal horizon. I...
Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost

Good News, Bad News & the Gray Ghost

It was 1998 and my wife’s uncle had received exclusive permission from a farmer’s widow to hunt a hundred or more acres of farmland bordered by swamp and hardwood forest in Duplin County, North Carolina.  He’d hunted the land since opening day, and for most of that...
The Vintagers Help Keep Edwardian Shotgunning And Dress Alive

The Vintagers Help Keep Edwardian Shotgunning And Dress Alive

John Chudzik was a Winchester man, addicted to its famed cornshuckers—Model 97s and Model 12s—but the Belchertown, Massachusetts, resident began to think they were a little on the heavy side and too cumbersome on a clays course. In time, lust crept into his...