Gear Dump: This Season’s Bird Stuff
Another upland game season has come and (mostly) gone in the West, and my gear list is approaching its final form after years of evolution, addition, and subtraction. Sounds too…
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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 AH Fox Sterlingworth – America’s Scattergun
The Ford V-8. The Dust Bowl. Hiroshima and the atom bomb. The birth of rock and roll and the death of The King. Vietnam. Watergate. Punk rock. Desert storm.The dot-com…
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Golden Years in the Chukar Hills
It’s common knowledge among avid upland hunters that game birds follow boom-or-bust cycles that are largely dependent on the habitat and climatic conditions in their home range. You can add…
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Colt Anaconda Sight Upgrades
I own two guns that are completely irreplaceable to me for sentimental reasons. One of those is a new-production Colt Anaconda. Sentiments aside, this is also my favorite handgun to…
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If I Have To Explain It…
When I let slip to the uninitiated that the hunt I look forward to the most each year is rifle javelina in February, they usually look at me with a…
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Random Things We Liked at the 2025 SHOT Show
I had a relatively demure SHOT 2025 experience, compared to some of you who I know are determined to recreate Fear and Loathing each January at the Venetian. I spent…
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Leatherman Signal Multitool
I was never a multitool guy until we got a little bird dog, Elko Baby. Mr. Elko Baby loves to run around in the cactus fields of southern Nevada, but…
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The Silver State Sage Grouse Season
I had been looking forward to the limited sage grouse season all year. NDOW had closed orreduced most of the sage-grouse seasons in the Silver State this year, and with…
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Great Basin Dinosaurs – The Greater Sage Grouse
It was eighteen degrees outside and five-something in the morning when we pulled up to a clearing in the sagebrush, joined by a dozen feral horses clattering over the sidehills…
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