The Tyto 1.1 Scalpel, from Tyto Knives
I had been skeptical of the scalpel-bladed hunting knives since, approximately, I first heard about them. I’m a skeptical guy in general — leery of marketing verbiage, and usually of…
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Matthew Shane Brown
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Nevadan by choice, and author of Fly Fishing in the 21st Century. He spends most of the year aimlessly driving the West in search of elk, birds, and trout.
The Faithful Servant, The Wingmaster
Back in the good old days, perhaps around ten years ago, you could walk around any gun show in America and have your pick of Remington 870 Wingmasters for around…
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Caldwell Stinger Shooting Rest
The Caldwell Stinger is, perhaps, the ultimate solution for the problems hunters (and those others who use their rifles in a similar manner, i.e. not F-class shooting) face both at…
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Ballistol – I Put That S*** On Everything
I suspect an entire generation of firearms aficionados and enthusiasts around my age grew up in front of a computer monitor, listening to a personable old codger from Tennessee smoke…
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A Javelina Safari
I’ve written previously about my love for bombing around the bajadas of the Sonoran desert in a clapped-out old Toyota in pursuit of the mysterious and, thankfully, largely under-appreciated skunk…
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High Country Deer in Nowhere, Nevada
I made my first camp at the trailhead 100 yards from an abandoned mining cabin in the national forest. It was a beautiful Great Basin Halloween night as the flicker…
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DNZ Game Reaper Scope Mounts
Five years ago, I was setting up a new-to-me Model 70 chambered in 7mm Remington Magnum, and needed a new set of scope rings. I stumbled upon the DNZ Game…
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.38 Super Ballistics – The Thinking Man’s 9mm
It is one of the great sadnesses of my life that I was not around in time in order to stop the mass adoptation of some little European cartridge as…
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A President’s Day Fly Fishing Boondoggle
When I moved to the wild and woolly West after a childhood on the East Coast, I had precious little understanding of the way that the world works in this…
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Leatherman Raptor Rescue Shears
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are going to die one day. Even worse than that, I’m going to die, too. Ideally, this will not…
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