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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.
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Gunfighters, Inc Kenai Chest Holster

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • February 20, 2025
There are a few maxims that have served as the foundation of my worldview over the years: “No amount of planning will ever replace dumb luck.” “Always look on the…
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Add Iron Sights To Your CVA Paramount Pro

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • February 13, 2025
Back in ’23, I had the good fortune to draw a muzzleloader bull elk tag in a very desirable unit, in a very desirable state. I did not own a…
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Gear Dump: This Season’s Bird Stuff

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • February 11, 2025
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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The AH Fox Sterlingworth – America’s Scattergun

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • February 6, 2025
Sterlingworth Shotgun
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

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • February 4, 2025
Photo: Matthew Shane Brown
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

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • January 30, 2025
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…

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • January 28, 2025
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

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • January 25, 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

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • January 24, 2025
Leatherman Signal.
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

  • Matthew Shane Brown
  • January 22, 2025
Silver State Sage Grouse Season by Matthew Shane Brown, on The Upland Soul
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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