Escape to Cabin Bluff
I will always cherish the days spent along this historic stretch of the south-Georgia coast, where the currents of friendship forever run deep. I was tired. Very tired. Pleasingly, pleasantly tired after another long and gratifying day following the pointers and...
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: 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...
The New Big Bore Air Gun: Nothing Like the Old Pellet Gun We Grew Up With
These powerful weapons are great for deer and hogs—even cape buffalo! In recent years, there has been a push to allow the use of big bore air rifles for hunting big game. Many states have already adopted regulations to allow big bores and many more are currently...
Anticosti Anticipation
L’Île-D’Anticosti has many moods. When fog settles in from the Atlantic, it frowns. Yet on each spruce needle it leaves a diamond. As morning sun melts the mist, each droplet sparkles with increasing joi de vivre. You can see it in the deer. With such hesitancy they...
Bored Beagles
Beagles are far too energetic to stay shut up indoors, but summer heat often requires exceptions to be made.
Tails, You Lose!
“Sometimes I dearly hate whitetails!” My humbled, mumbled comment brought a snicker from my hunting partner, J. Wayne Fears. I was glad it was only a small laugh and my friend had recovered a bit. Only moments before he had been laughing so hard I thought he might...
13 Spectacular Gene Hill Quotes
Passages by the legendary essayist and sportsman.
Into the Light
I died on a lovely autumn evening…