A Beginner’s Guide to Ice Fishing

The dead of winter can be a dreary time for many sportsmen. Deer season and duck season are behind us, the spring turkey won’t be on our minds for a few more months, and our favorite lakes are frozen over. Frozen fishing spots may be a bust for casting senkos,...

Florida: Home of the Endless Deer Season

White-tailed deer are an American sportsmen’s bread and butter. They are what most of us learn to hunt and what we gauge universally as trophy animals. We hunt them nationwide, from running dogs in the southern swamps to snow-tracking bucks in the northern...

Song Dogs: Coyote Hunting

Coyotes are medium-sized, wild canines that draw the attention of nearly everyone in the lower 48. Even though their population range is massive, coyotes are not native to much of the eastern US. Removing wolves and other large predators from the landscape has allowed...

Dear Santa, Please Bring Anything Sitka

At one point or another as a kid, we all saw something we wanted for Christmas and excitedly rushed home to pen a letter to the jolly guy in red. While many of us moved away from asking for Christmas gifts as we got older (and hobbies switched from Legos and dolls to...

The “41”: The Waterfowl Grand Slam

The “41” is the Waterfowl grand slam. Hunters will travel from one end of the country to the other, hunting everything from sea ducks in coastal Alaska to puddle ducks in Florida.  No doubt there is an opportunity to hunt multiple species of ducks in one...