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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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.
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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The Boyt Harness H-Series Case
Like most here, I spend almost the entirety of the months of September through February puttering around the wilds with guns clattering around in the back of my truck. So…
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The 1911 Is Still Alive And Well
It is the year 2025. I am not a math wiz, but that means it’s been at least 114 years since the inception of what many would say is John…
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Pearson’s No-Drill Picatinny Rails For the Winchester 94
There is no better depiction of the duality of man than the two paths that a lever gun can take in the modern year of 2025. The yin and the…
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Gunfighters, Inc Kenai Chest Holster
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
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
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
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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