Tweet Many of us started our big-game hunting careers with whitetail deer. Some graduated to elk, moose and other four-legged animals that roam this earth. Along the way we likely shot a variety of rifles, but there’s a pretty good chance that the majority were of the bolt action variety. Some of the benefits of […]

Tweet The howls sent chills down my spine. They always do. Ever since I was a boy on my first deer hunt in Texas. The eeriness of those high-pitched wales in the predawn darkness sent me into the floor of the box blind overlooking the vast tangle of mesquite. If I laid down, they wouldn’t […]

Tweet   If you’re like us, deer hunting tradition means something. Blood-smeared faces after a first kill and the daunting task of cutting shirttails for misses. There’s no malicious intent involved in either; it’s only a small price to pay to be so fortunate to call yourself a deer hunter. And when a bullet doesn’t […]

Tweet Among the world’s elk hunters, we’d bet more than three quarters are proponents of shooting big, magnum calibers – rifles that rattle your teeth, and for days after the shot cause your ears to continue to ring. Some of us have been in camp with guys shooting shiny .338s or .300 Remington Ultra Mags […]