Tips & Features
Searching for the perfect deer gun? It could be a shotgun
I was thrilled about straight-walled rifles becoming legal during the regular Ohio gun season. Since then, I have been searching for the ultimate deer rifle.
However, I have not found it nor did I
Despite so many forsaking it, fall turkey hunting is still a blast
Break the flock, scatter and call – that is the standard practice for most fall turkey hunters in Pennsylvania – the few that remain. Since 1990, the number of participants for fall turkey season has
Wisconsin 11-year-old shoots ‘buck of lifetime’
Eleven-year-old Levi Weber learned from his father as a wee lad that “the chores need to be done before you can play.”
On Saturday, Oct. 11, during Wisconsin’s youth deer season, the family was
Sometimes, a break from the deer-hunting grind is necessary
Things do not always work out like you plan. A lot of times, you envision a particular outcome to an event and it ends up turning out quite differently, sometimes for the better, and sometimes
Sick of hunting crowds? Here’s how to have some waterfowl to yourself
There is a near-constant refrain in the hunting world these days, and it goes something like this: “There are too many people out here.”
You’ll hear that out West if you travel in pursuit
Here’s how to make small deer drives in big timber
Our hunting crew, the Iron Sight Gang, had some serious plans for the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
What is typically a productive time in the woods for us would feature eight or 10 hunters putting
Pennsylvania reader stories: A father’s hunting rifle returns to his favorite spot
Forty years tend to cloud one’s memory but it had to be 1984.
That was the year I was raising three boys, my wife was pregnant with our daughter. I was working second shift
Browning Auto-5 helped shape the future of the firearm industry
Growing up in northwest Ohio, I looked at what the adult hunters carried, often it said something about how serious they were. If you had the means, or if you simply lived to hunt, somehow
Fine tune your straight-walled cartridges for better accuracy this deer season
My confidence in handloading straight-walled cartridges does not shield me from the occasions when I expect results sooner. If load development is slow in coming together, my mind reaches for reasons why.
Some recent
