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 ...
When kayaking was new on my radar, I spent a fair amount of time on the Monongahela River. Big open water, paddling in and around the old coal mine loading sites, in and out of the iron structures and tanks, tossing a line here and there. The occasional barge would bounce a kayak pretty good. ...
