How To Fight The Clankers

All it took for me to become radicalized against the robots was that terrifying visage of a chainsaw-wielding, four-legged, minotaur-like robot. At that point, I figured we had gone too far. My preps went from fighting China to fighting the inevitable A.I. field war against the clankers. Alright,...

By Travis Pike •

The Sierra Lake That Isn’t on Any Map

Below the snow-cross on the shoulder of Mount Tallac lies a lake that never appeared on a California map. People who knew of it called it Lost Lake, and the trout living there put up a harder fight than any fish I had hooked before. How I reached it, recounted in the November 1951 issue […]...

By James Chen •

18 Veteran Tricks for Fooling Big Bucks in October

October is the hinge of the whitetail season. It connects the steady, early-season patterns with the chaos of the rut, which means the bucks you want are neither fully nocturnal nor fully reckless. Mature deer in this window are summer-fat, heavy-coated, and reluctant to move in daylight, and hun...

By James Chen •
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