The United States in 1934 stood at the abyss. The Great Depression had ruined countless lives. Families lived in shanty towns and drifted across the Great Plains toward California or any place which held the slightest hope they could reverse…
Crossbows. How can something so simple generate so much controversy? Crossbows are, at present, displacing standard bows, whether recurve or compound, from the market. In other words, more hunters are buying crossbows than standard bows each year. Many crossbow buyers…
A bright, blood-orange sun dipped below a fir and ponderosa mantled ridge in Montana’s Blackfoot River country. A tedious, yet picturesque afternoon-long wait had come down to this; fifteen minutes before last legal hunting light and still no deer had…
It’s on. The whitetail deer rut starts in October and runs into November. Hunters across the U.S. spend time and money to get the inside track on when the rut occurs in their area, and with good reason. The rut…
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has already devastated deer and elk herds across the American west, mid-west, and south-east. Montana had, up to now, been spared its ravages. The state confirmed its first cases in 2017, and has moved with speed…
Prvi Partizan is a Serbian munitions maker established in 1928. Sold in the United States under the PPU brand, their ammunition is among the lowest priced available. With its no frills packaging and understated marketing, many American shooters believe it…
The year is 1962. American shooters and hunters are gripped by a mighty force—Magnum Fever. This syndrome, characterized by a never satisfied desire for greater and greater bullet velocity, stalked the land since 1956 when Winchester introduced the .458 Winchester…
The 6.5mm cartridges are the hot ticket, right now. With all the hyperbole about the 6.5 Creedmoor, and others, it’s high time the 6.5 family’s great scion got some attention. I refer to none other than the wonderful, 6.5x55mm Swedish.…
What’s the most popular, yet least glamorous, hunting rifle cartridge? The .308 Winchester. Developed for the U.S. military to replace the time-tested .30-06, this wonderful, flexible round traces its DNA back to the .300 Savage. Based on lessons learned from…
Deer hunting. Everybody, and we mean everybody, has advice on how to hunt deer. Some are spot on, others qualify as deer UFO conspiracy theories. There are many ways to hunt deer, but you have to cover the basics, first. …