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Public Land Hunting Etiquette You Learn the Hard Way
I showed up to my first public land hunt with everything I’d read on forums. Camo head to toe. Scent killer sprayed on my boots. A climber stand I’d …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Bench Practice Won’t Save You in a Tree Stand. Two Years of Lessons in One Season.
Let me tell you something embarrassing. For two years, I thought I was a decent shot. I’d go to the range every couple months, set up my sandbags, si…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
30 Years Calling Catfish Trash – One Meal Changed Everything
I grew up thinking catfish were garbage fish. You know the type. Bottom feeders. Mud suckers. The thing you catch by accident when you’re actually af…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Why I Stopped Buying Cheap Scopes (And You Should Too)
I’ll be honest with you — I used to be the guy who bought $99 scopes off Amazon and called it a day. Figured a scope is a scope, right? Glass is glas…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Cheap Glass, Empty Freezer
I shot a one-hole group at the range last Tuesday. Drove home happy. Thursday morning I’m in a treestand, buck walks out at 60 yards, and I miss clea…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Night a Black Bear Stood Up 50 Yards Away
I was hunting black bear in northern Minnesota a few years back. Second evening, I’m walking back to camp along a ridge, rifle slung, not really payi…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
First Trip, Soaked Boots, and the Fish That Didn’t Care
The first time I went fishing by myself, I fell in. Completely in. Waders full of cold river water, rod floating downstream, dignity somewhere at the…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The First Deer I Shot… And the One I Didn’t
I shot my first deer when I was sixteen. Or at least, I thought I’d shot it. The rifle barked, the deer vanished into the treeline, and my uncle slap…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Lighten Your Pack: What I Actually Carry After 10 Years of Hunting
I used to carry so much junk into the woods that my pack weighed damn near forty pounds. Fire starter. Backup fire starter. Backup backup fire starte…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Lost in the Backcountry Is a Place You Walk Into by Accident
I got properly lost exactly once. Not “where’s the truck” lost. Not “let me pull up OnX” lost. Lost lost. As in: I sat down on a log, opened my map, …
2 months, 2 weeks ago