Fall is the time of year when many firearm owners will head out into fields and forests to fill their freezers with harvested game. This includes everything from small game such as rabbits and squirrels to much larger animals such as whitetail deer and elk. Whether it is for the sport, sustenance...
There is nothing more inherently Fudd-coded than a lever-action rifle. Lever guns bring to mind images of post-war deer camps, or classic ammunition advertisements of broadbrim-hatted shootists facing down grizzlies, or bagging a ram across a rocky canyon. Of course, the classic lever guns in tho...
Hunting rifles have evolved drastically over the years, with modern precision machining and materials such as carbon fiber introduced into both the stock and the barrel, and an off-the-shelf rifle can now outperform custom-built actions from a decade ago. Many people with older rifles seek ways t...
No matter what my day demands of me, something that is at the forefront of my mind in recent years is my hydration. So much of what we eat and consume dehydrates us – coffee, energy drinks, beef jerky, salty fast food/convenience food, etc – that we need to be mindful that we are hydr...
The Tiger II tank, officially designated as Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B and introduced in 1944, was Germany’s most advanced heavy tank of World War II. Known as the Königstiger (King Tiger) by the Germans and often referred to as the Royal Tiger by Allied forces, it was designed to dominate...
Knowing and identifying basic trees in the Northeast and Eastern Woodlands pays off fast in any wild stretch you roam. Tree identification helps you read the land, choose the right wood, and stay ahead of trouble. Once you know what to look for, the forest stops feeling random and starts feeling ...
Of all the news that came out of SHOT Show this year, I was very stoked to see that European American Armory is bringing back affordable combination guns. Maybe, just maybe, we’ll see a renaissance in this underappreciated corner of Fudd world.
It was Thanksgiving weekend. James Kim and wife, Kati, with their young daughters Sabine and Penelope, were motoring on their trip home to San Francisco on I-5, then turned toward Gold Beach on Oregon’s southern coast. The road James took began to climb. There was no traffic, and soon no cell s...
As a full-time fly fishing guide, I’m often on the mountain scouting multiple fishing spots every morning and evening. It was a beautiful, warm evening in June when I decided to make the long trek to one of my favorite spots. This spot is a hike-in lake, about a mile and a half each way Read Mo...
A dangerous, habituated grizzly bear swam to Texada Island in British Columbia. It was eventually shot and killed. The people responsible were fined for not immediately reporting the killing of the bear.