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Remember those four hunters who used a ladder to reach public land? Backcountry Hunters & Anglers has filed an amicus brief in a high-profile public access case that the U.S. District Court for Wyoming is expected to hear this summer. The ruling in the case, Iron Bar Holdings vs. Bradly Cape et al, could help establish the legality...
Read More →Mentoring New Hunters Through Field Dressing The first time I ever watched a deer being field dressed, I was thirteen. My uncle had dropped a nice eight-pointer, and as we huddled around, I was half excited and half trying not to breathe too deeply. I remember him pausing halfway through, looking at me, and saying:…
Picture this: a quiet Alaskan forest, a lone trail camera sitting on sentry duty—and then, action. On August 5th, Anchorage’s wild side decided to throw its own solo show. Enter the star: A Very Large Bear, who had apparently taken it upon itself to audition for the role of “Fur-Covered Hulk” in the latest wildlife…
Leupold is offering hunters the chance to see what it’s like on the other side of the glass. Ever watched those hunting shows on TV or streaming and wondered what it took to create a narrative out of the star’s hunt? The answer is both “quite a lot” and “not much, really.” That’s because hunting…
“We thought the evidence of corruption might be bad, but the mountain of evidence we’ve uncovered is like nothing we’ve seen before.” The Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation (SAF) filed a petition with Gov. Ferguson asking for the removal of Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissioners Barbara Baker, Lorna Smith, Melanie Rowland, and John Lehmkuhl after evidence of…
Uniquely beautiful, intelligent, with excellent color vision … the Merriam’s subspecies is a unique challenge to turkey hunters. It’s doubtful any other game species compels hunters to travel around the country with such vigor as the wild turkey, and then do it in such a relatively short period of time. Depending on the location, wild…
My question isn’t, “Why is this happening?” My question is, “Why isn’t it happening everywhere?” Every four years or so, the Utah Department of Natural Resources has an auction event to sell hundreds of antlers and furs that Utah Department of Natural Resources law enforcement officers seized during poaching investigations, or otherwise obtained possession of,…
Depending on where you live in the country, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is either something you’ve just read about, or it’s something you try not to think too hard about while you’re sending in your harvest for mandatory testing. What’s scary about CWD is that it’s basically like Mad Cow Disease, only for deer. It’s…
“The good news is that I never had to go back to the hayfield. The bad news is I never got to go back to the hayfield.” Robin Clark’s accident in 1970 left the boy paraplegic, forever changing the idyllic farm-kid lifestyle he’d enjoyed. But he never let the loss of the use of his…
Editor’s note: Today’s column comes to us courtesy of Chris Dorsey, biologist, award-winning television and film producer, regular contributor to Forbes, past editor of Ducks Unlimited and Sports Afield magazines, and the author of 12 books on hunting and natural history subjects. American sportsmen have justifiably celebrated the success of the so-called North American model…
Ready your shotgun, decoys, and camo duds…the season’s opening salvo is but weeks away. When Mother Nature kicks the natural air-conditioning on sometime mid-August, it’s always a much welcome reprieve from sweltering summer weather. The change beckons hunters with their first real sense of what is coming only a few weeks away. They know, tiny…
It’s like having Daniel Boone, a lawyer, and a soothsayer in your pocket! As an older hunter, I’ll always tout the importance of knowing how to use a compass and topo map to navigate, because I can’t quite trust my cellphone to have a signal wherever I am. That said, the new hunting tools you…
As outdoorsmen, we’re getting some mixed messages from D.C. here … Just a couple of months ago, we learned that the Bureau of Land Management had–perhaps somewhat prematurely–announced that it intends to end recreational shooting at the Sonoran Desert National Monument. What was particularly strange about this event was that there really wasn’t any justification…
