Outdoors

By Tana Grenda This is part 2 of Tana Grenda's encounter with a Boone and Crockett brown bear in Alaska. You can read Part 1 here After the bear dipped down below the horizon in front of us at 200 yards, Trevor whispered, let’s run. The adrenaline hit. We left our gear and grabbed the [...]

By Tana Grenda For most of my life in Alaska, I viewed a sidearm as something optional. Useful, maybe. They are heavy, inconvenient, and uncomfortable at times, but often something people carry more for peace of mind than anything. I grew up around firearms, hunted big country, flew into the remote wilderness often, and spent [...]

He was there, then gone like an afterthought in a bad situation. I had looked away merely for a heartbeat to glance at the crunching sound of footsteps in the dry white oak leaves that covered the ground behind me. Squirrel! Immediately I again looked forward to prepare taking a shot at this long awaited [...]

I freely and openly state, hunting black bear is one of my passions. Over the years, starting in 1978 I have pursued their kind from the coastal and inland areas of Alaska down to the arid deserts of Arizona and from there angling up toward Maine over to Newfoundland and then across Canada toward Alaska. [...]

by Kat Ainsworth Stevens Handgun hunting is on the rise, and that doesn’t only apply to the guys that choose to swap out their rifles for pistols. For years now women have been shooting and buying guns with greater frequency, and it’s past time we started making a more definite mark on the hunting world [...]

“Seeing many fawns on your lease out west?” Questioned David Cotton. “Here in Northeast Texas we’ve thankfully seen a lot of them. And, we’re starting to see what looks like there is going to be some pretty nice bucks. Seems like all we’ve been doing with passing up younger bucks and limiting our overall buck [...]

By Kevin McPherson Semi-automatic handguns with polymer frames and double-digit magazine capacities are certainly the “most carried” of contemporary handguns. That said, owning and training with a revolver or two is a wise practice. Small revolvers are hard to beat as backup guns, or for deep cover situations where minimal clothing is the rule. Many [...]

By Tamara Keel Optically-sighted revolvers, in and of themselves, are not new things. You’ve been able to buy scope-mounting kits for medium- and large-frame revolvers since the earth cooled. The thing is, however, that these revolvers with optics mounts were intended for either hunting game or winning shooting games. The idea of a general concealed [...]

Heritage Manufacturing has been producing economical .22 single action (SA) revolvers for many years; now they are breaking into the concealed carry revolver market with a short-barrel double action (DA) revolver in .38 Special. Doing a visual, it looks very much like a throwback to a small-frame snub-nose that was introduced in 1950. As such, [...]

As the Summer travel season inches closer, Americans are more likely than at any other time of year to take to the road, sky, or water as part of their plans. Often this means crossing state lines, and if you intend to carry a self-defense weapon for some, or all of your trip, you must [...]

by Larry Weishuhn Hunting seasons looms on the horizon here in Texas. Mourning dove hunting is practically here. Big game seasons are opening elsewhere and numerous have already begun across North America. As this is being written, I’ve started packing for a moose hunt in British Columbia with Love Brothers & Lee. On that hunt [...]

My friend and hunt host, David Cotton, had just gotten his Mossberg Patriot Predator chambered in 6.5 PRC which he topped with a Trijicon 3-18x50 AccuPoint scope. That accomplished he headed to their ranch’s rifle range to sight-in with Hornady Precision Hunter 143-grain ELD-X at 100-yards.  He had just finished doing so when I arrived. Well [...]

I was glassing thirteen bucks gathered around the “deer feeder”. A buck with extremely darkly stained hocks from his tarsal glands to his ankles, indicating maturity, had already shed his antlers. The other twelve were 8 to 10 points, likely two to four year olds. Yes…I was hunting from a raised deer blind watching a [...]

“Making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” I have heard that old saw for many years when someone referred to making something out of basically nothing! But there is certainly merit in what it means! Recently while visiting with Greg Simons, fellow wildlife biologist and wildlife entrepreneur with Wildlife Systems we talked about [...]

What started as a dust storm, turned into misty rain followed by another red dust storm which resulted in a light mud coating on just about everything! The ride “home” of a “high-rack” added another layer of red western Texas dust. Back at camp, I grabbed a towel, removed the five 240-grain XTP Hornady rounds [...]

The day had been a good one. All in camp had seen elk. A few bulls were still bugling. One six by six was down, and would be packed out of the mountains in the morrow, after being hung to cool high in a pine. Supper had been delicious, resplendent with cherry and blueberry pies [...]

Looking back, I could not help but laugh at myself. I had read several magazine articles about two fellow Texans, Murry and Winston Burnham and their ability to have “critters come when called” using mouth-blown “predator calls”. I was enthralled with being able to do the same. After saving some of the money earned that [...]

“What is it with you and extremely old whitetails?” asked David Archer. We were standing next to an ancient 6-point, with a very narrow spread, I had just shot with my .454 Casull Taurus Raging Hunter. David had been just to the left of where his brother Craig, owner of Double AA Outfitters and I [...]

“The deer census is completed and we’ve received our harvest recommendations for this coming hunting season from the local Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife biologist.”  Read the text.  It continued, “Each of the lease holders is responsible for taking 8 does.” A few minutes later I called our lease leader/coordinator and told him I [...]

Was a time with the arrival of June, July and early August I had my bags packed and was headed to or preparing to head to southern Africa where they were into their fall and winter.  Day times may have been warm, but night times often cool to downright, freezing standing water cold!  I loved [...]

“What are you doing this coming weekend?” asked a friend at our 2022 DSC Foundation Gala. “Going to depend upon whether or not I get the bid on a particular hunt I'm interested here in the auction.” I replied being a bit coy about what hunt I planned to bid on, even though I would [...]