Big Game

“You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em… “Know when to walk away, know when to run.” Photo by Terry Wieland

How To Avoid Getting Killed While Big Game Hunting

Here are some helpful hints on how to avoid getting fatally hammered on a big-game…
The .458 Lott (right) beside the perennially popular .416 Rigby. When it comes to hammering dangerous game, almost nothing beats the .458’s 500-grain bullet. We say “almost” because presumably Zeus has some lightning bolts in reserve.

Meditations on Big-Game Hunting

For something like three decades, every summer I would go and visit for a long…
Over a 50-year period, O’Connor wrote more than a dozen books, and since his death at least four anthologies of his magazine work have been published.

The O’Connor Legacy

The annual gathering at the Jack O’Connor Hunting Heritage Center in Lewiston, Idaho, is part…
winter caribou

Winter Caribou

When we were researching our trip, these winter caribou hunts—all of them—had advertised 100 percent…
mule deer
"Mule Deer," by Tom Beecham (19256-2000) Courtesy of Remington Arms

Laughter, Learnt of Friends

I never had a designated trophy room, but for about 15 years I lived in…
"Growling Lions" is one of 500 Kuhnert paintings of lion.

In Love Again, with Kuhnert

Each time we return to Tanzania – from 1994, when we were tasked with building…

Hunting As Writ

Like Robert Ruark’s hero, Alec Barr, in The Honey Badger, who “knew he had them,…
Big Five by Grant Hacking

On Safari with Grant Hacking

I wish I’d collected the T-shirts I’ve seen over the years of Africa’s Big Five…

The Art of Stillness

Lessons from the hunt on living and dying. [by Nels Christensen]
tuska elephant statue
Tuska weighs seven tons and stands 19 feet tall.

Terry Mathews’s Elephant – a Football Icon

by Brooke Chilvers You haven’t lived if you haven’t been to a Durty Nelly’s Irish…
tiger painting
Stubbs painted only a single tiger, but in three versions.

Tracking Tigers in Life and in Art

The first tiger in my life was Shere Khan, the “chief among tigers” in Rudyard…
Calm on the East African Plains (1918) by John G. Millais

What’s in a Name?

I miss bookstores. Not mall bookstores with 50 shades of the same thing, but independent…