Bobbing Around Below the Dam
I never had much use for waders in my youth. When the boys went fly fishing, we slipped our wallets in plastic bags and braved the cold water until our…
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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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Buck 420HC, and Practical Steels for Hunting Knives
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: Spring Bear Hunts
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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Growing Up Fly Fishing
I’m a lucky guy for a lot of reasons. One of the most important ones, to me, is that I grew up in a family that loves the outdoors. That…
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The Tyto 1.1, 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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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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Hooking a Lunker
You may know that wonderful feeling when first viewing a valley that is so beautiful it almost takes your breath away. That is how I felt when I first laid…
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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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