Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association conference in Camp Hill. The conference is a yearly event that I look forward to. It is great to get together with old friends, and by old friends I mean that most of us are old. I am 60 and they call me ...
Turkey season opens this weekend and I can’t think of a better way to usher in the new season than in the manner in which I was treated to last Saturday by the Warrior Trail Gobblers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. The event was hosted at Hunting Hills Shooting Preserve in ...
One of my favorite parts of being an outdoors writer is pretending to be a gun writer of sorts. Not just because of my long-term admiration for writers such as Col. Jeff Cooper, Gene Hill and Elmer Keith, but rather because of my long-standing affection for the strange and unusual ...
Back in the late 1980s, in my ski bum days, I had the opportunity to ski some of the coolest places in America: Keystone, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Arapahoe Basin, Vail, Winter Park, Wolf Creek, just to name a few. It was 130-plus days per season. Some of the best days included tree skiing ...
One of the more frequent questions I am asked as a firearms instructor is: “What is the best handgun I should buy?” While it could take volumes to answer that question, my response is usually something along the lines of “Buy whatever fits you the best and that you shoot the best.” ...
If retirement has taught me anything, it's that patience has certainly become a virtue … of sorts. I can recall as a lad, peering out the windows of Jefferson-Morgan High School, the rain falling in the afternoon during baseball season. “How could God possibly allow it to rain on game ...
