
Another Look at the Classic Kentucky Long Rifle
The use and development of firearms has been vital to the survival and prosperity of our nation since the first permanent English colony was established more than 400 years ago in what is now Virginia.

The use and development of firearms has been vital to the survival and prosperity of our nation since the first permanent English colony was established more than 400 years ago in what is now Virginia.
Top: David Chidsey, of Macomb, shot a beautiful 6-by-6 European red stag during a hunting trip in Romania.

A lot of new hunters wrongfully assume that because a deer was shot with a shotgun or a rifle that the deer just tips over.

For thousands of Minnesota deer hunters, the past several days have been a whirlwind. They are the lucky few that were in the right place at the right time – they shot their dream bucks.

You know those guys who have a pickup with a topper, and one of those fancy systems with the drawers that slide out smoother than Luke Skywalker’s Landspeeder cruises over the sands of Tatooine?

It was 6:30 a.m. on a late-August morning. The sun rose over Lake Minnewashta in Minnesota’s southwest metro. It was already 80 degrees.
Ron Strauss, president of the Minnesota Kayak Fishing Association, stood

The moon was high and the morning still dark blue as I left my house to drive an hour-and-a-half toward the Salmon River, in Pulaski. There I met my fishing guide for the day, Eric

The acorn-toting gray squirrel squirted from cover and headed for an old oak 20 yards distant. Soon it appeared on the trunk only a couple feet off the ground. My little single-shot .410 barked and

When his buddy Mike Munson took up Tenkara fly-fishing in wild-trout streams around his hometown of Jones Mills in Westmoreland County last winter, TJ Platt looked on with interest.
Tenkara is a method of
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