Honest hunting stories and practical lessons on preparation, ethics, habitat, public land, shooting, and the mistakes that shape better hunters.
When the first humans walked into North America roughly 15,000 years ago, they walked into a continent absolutely stacked with game. Mammoths, mastodons, giant…
Read the storyI was 26 the first time I tried still hunting. Not the kind where you…
I drove two hundred and forty miles with an empty gun. Let me rephrase that.…
I don’t know why I thought it would be different this time. I’d hunted the same public land spot for…
For the first five years I hunted deer, I didn’t really hunt. I walked into the woods with a rifle,…
My grandpa hunted with a Winchester Model 94. Iron sights, thirty-thirty, checkered flannel and a thermos of black coffee. He…
The first deer I shot wasn’t with a rifle. It was with a compound bow I bought on Craigslist for…
I shot my first deer when I was sixteen. Or at least, I thought I’d shot it. The rifle barked,…
