Imagine if Hunters Didn’t Shoot Deer

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"Preliminary counts of deer registered with the new electronic game checking process indicate West Virginia hunters harvested 138,493 white-tailed deer during the recently completed bucks-only, antlerless, muzzleloader, archery, crossbow and youth/Class Q/Class XS deer...

On the Range with Blaser R8

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I love me some Blaser straight pull goodness. So when I saw that they had their R8 Long Range .338 Lapua Magnum GRS on the firing line, I had to get some trigger time....

Stop African Elephant Poaching! Increase Legal Hunting!

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"The poaching crisis is taking more from us than just elephants," the Wildlife Conservation Society reports. "We must put a stop to it." Roger that! As someone who's seen African elephants in their native habitat,...

US Fish & Wildlife Service: Endangered Species Act Listing Protects Lions in Africa and...

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceWashington, DC -(AmmoLand.com)- In response to the dramatic decline of lion populations in the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) today announced it will list two lion subspecies under...

Hunting the Sunny Pearl Harbor Day Rut

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His third year in the blind with me, his AR sporting a new AAC 762-SDN6 on the muzzle, my (now former) coworker and friend, Dave (not his real name) slowly spun himself around on...

Hunting the Elusive Wanderer

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While recovering from shoulder surgery, I was getting pretty grumpy sitting at home with a hunting license, deer and elk tags yearning to be filled. I had drawn a deer tag for a very coveted...

Is a Blue Thong Effective Concealment for Deer Hunting?

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As most of you no doubt know deer hunting requires some degree of stealth. First, given the time of year, it's frequently cold, especially early in the morning, so layers are in order. Since...

Any Day Spent Hunting Beats a Day at the Office

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A few months ago Cody Hirt, the founder of Veteran Outdoors, told me he had a problem. A large male Catalina ram has been destroying fences and property. Worse, the big goat had no fear of humans; it...

Hunting: Sometimes, You Can’t Fight Bad Luck

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As some of you might remember, Nick gifted me the unluckiest hunting trip of my life last year. The photo above is of a much larger Leghorn attempting to wedge himself through the too-small back...

Rich Food for Poor People: Making Venison-Rabbit Boudin

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Nearly a month into hunting season and I've been out twice. The results have been a mixed bag. One wounded Axis, never to be recovered, a downed whitetail buck, and one rabbit. None of...

Quote of the Day: Jon Wayne Taylor On Hunting Edition

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"I don’t hunt to kill, I kill to have hunted. Hunting calms me, puts my head in the right place, and puts me back in touch with the world I live in. And it...

How to Skin a Deer with an Air Compressor

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From Ammoland: Hang Your Deer You start out the same way you would normally skin a deer. There are different thoughts about if it’s better to hang the deer head up or head down, but we’ve found...