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The .270 Winchester and Its 100th Birthday Celebration

The .270 Winchester and Its 100th Birthday Celebration. Jack O'Connor's cartridge turns 100.

The 7mm Might Be The Ideal Hunting Caliber

The 7mm Might Be The Ideal Hunting Caliber. But which cartridge shines best?

Henry Steel Lever-Action .30-30 Rifle: Tasteful Performance

A classic and solid lever-action equally at home in the whitetail woods or your ranch scabbard.

One Last Extraordinary Bear Hunt in Alaska

A final hunt for Alaska's big brown bears.

In Today's World, Are Single-Shot Rifles Still Practical?

With many modern options at our disposal, is there still room for single-shot rifles?

Why North American Sheep Hunting Captures Hunters’ Imagination

California Deer Hunting is its Best Kept Secret

California offers some of the most varied deer hunting in the West, with five distinct mule deer subspecies spread across dramatically different regions and seasons. Despite political misconceptions, harsh climates, and predator pressure, the state supports a large, passionate hunting community and resilient deer populations that locals know and value well.

Choosing the Perfect Knife by Richard R Charlton Sr

Uncle Steely by Jim Morando

A LEGACY OF CONSERVATION Game Trackers Africa - Rockwood Conservation

Game Trackers Africa's Rockwood Conservation has the ideal combination of family-friendly luxury facilities and wildlife encounters.

Blogs from craig Boddington

10 Questions To Ask Your Outfitter... Before You Book!

It drives me crazy. Outfitted hunts cost money, so the people who book them must have achieved some success at something. Yet, time and again, I see people making snap decisions regarding hunting that they would never make in business! It’s okay to ask the hard questions, but before you do make sure you know what you want!

The Best Hunt In Argentina

Did you know that Argentina is the world’s most popular hunting destination? Okay, maybe it’s not like key whitetail states like Pennsylvania or New York, where hundreds of thousands of hunters take to the woods annually…nor like Wyoming, where a large percentage of the small population buys hunting licenses.

10 Favorite Hunting Trips

I’m often asked about my favorite hunts. Some have been better than others, but almost no genuine “bad ones”…invariably, there’s a good memory in there somewhere! So a simple and honest answer has always been, “the last one…or the next one.”

Tough Hunts - Dftq Part 1 - (Mantra Of Die First Then Quit)

There were no horns and no meat sacks in the Supercub when we landed. Outfitter Erik Salitan was there to meet me, as was Donna—she’d gotten ill and had flown out a few days earlier. Me, I went full term, continuing to battle terrible weather and never seeing the game I was seeking.

Tough Hunts - Dftq Part 2 - (Mantra Of Die First Then Quit)

(Continued from DFTQ Part 1) The Marco Polo sheep is one of the world’s great game animals, hunted on the “roof of the world” in the Pamirs of Central Asia. As a mere gunwriter this was a hunt I never expected to be able to do,

How I See My Business

Friends, I’ve had a long and wonderful career in this crazy business. I’ve been lucky in that I got some great breaks along the way. I have colleagues who claim they sold the first story they ever wrote and never looked back.

The Toughest Hunt: Conventions!

Some hunts are tougher than others, some are tough physically, while others are tough mentally. On any mountain hunt you know going in that you’re going to sweat, struggle, and huff and puff your way up—and with increasingly bad knees, I know the downhill is going to hurt just as bad.

Bear Country

There was scat along the trails, and long-clawed tracks in just about every wet spot. We were in bear country. More specifically, we were in grizzly bear country. At least one of the bears had marked a tree close by hunting camp with deep scratch marks.

Is The World's Greatest Game For You?

“I didn’t know you could still hunt elephant.” This is one of the first comments I usually hear on the subject of elephant hunting, even among fairly knowledgeable hunters. That’s the first hurdle to get past: In our new millennium, should elephants be hunted? Indeed they should, and indeed they must.

America's Earliest Deer Season

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