We hunters and gun toters like to present questions to one another in efforts to get a very finite answer from our brethren. “If you could have one gun to hunt with, what would it be? You can have one carry gun, what is it and why? Pick one handgun cartridge to do everything with.”

The more we hunt, the more wild game meat we accumulate for the freezer. We enjoy eating what we’ve killed and sharing meals with family and friends makes the memories of the outdoors even more special. I’ve not encountered a game animal yet that isn’t tasty, if it’s handled and cooked correctly.

Anticipation of adventure filled the air as Charlie Pirtle and I loaded down his pickup with camping gear and enough food to survive several days in the New Mexico back country. With the chuck box situated perfectly, we carefully added cots...

Perched in an old quad-pod near a windmill in remote Pecos County, Texas is one of my favorite places to be each fall. For reasons...

Blue wildebeest, eland, gemsbok, greater kudu, impala, lechwe, springbok, white-tailed deer, and zebra. Right off the top of my head...

The Model 1886 Winchester was the first John Browning-designed repeating rifle to be manufactured by Winchester. The classic lines and...

I was just a big kid, horseback near the Nueces River, the first time I got a really close look at javalinas. I rounded a bend in the...

The morning air was crisp in the high desert as we unloaded my side by side from the trailer at dawn. Right after the sun breaks the...

Any way you’d want to look at it, Rafael “Red” Lopez was a bad dude. Border legend has it that he was from the Mexican state of Coahuila...

Hunting camps and the folks we share them with are as important as the wildlife we see and hunt, oftentimes they are the most important...

A few years ago I had the pleasure of making two trips to Australia to participate in a buffalo management project. I was hunting with...

After a couple days hunting the vast Manketti Reserve with Quagga Safaris Professional Hunters (PHs) Eon Kok and Tyron Fletcher it became...

The grand 41 Magnum turned 60 years old this year. Originally it was designed to bridge the gap between the 357 and 44 Magnums, and...

For me, the greater kudu is one of the most impressive and beautiful of all the antelope species found on the continent of Africa...