A Fly Fisherman in a Spin Casting World
On the internet, you can find a lot of insane opinions about any topic you’d like. Sometimes, the joke gets taken so far that I think people repeat it simply…
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Matthew Shane Brown
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Nevadan by choice , he spends most of the year aimlessly driving the West in search of elk, birds, and trout.
Practical Steels for Hunting Knives and Buck’s 420HC
Perhaps ten or fifteen years ago, I recall that one of the hottest things in the knife world were boutique steels with weird names. Ultra-tough, ultra-durable. CruWear. Elmax, Maxamet. S110V.…
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Time And Place
March and April are weird months for me in general. Nothing going on, really. Bird season is over and I’m fresh off our annual javelina hunt. Most days, it’s usually…
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Tyto 1.1 Knife
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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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
As one matures and takes the science of shooting more seriously, one’s attention inevitably turns to the tools of that particular trade; the things that make these exploits both more…
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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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