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Shoulder flexibility and strength can be improved with a simple flex band, repeated 15-20 times, in three sets.

Fitness for Bowhunting

Bowhunting season is almost upon us and, although I eschewed bows and arrows many years…
Alaska’s Chugach Mountains in 1990. Wieland is carrying his trusty Camp Trails internal frame pack. After that trip, and the conditioning that went with it, it fit him like an old flannel shirt.

The Labors of Hercules

If there is one basic ability every hunter should have, it’s backpacking.  To some extent,…
Dave Petzal

Tom McIntyre and Thunder Without Rain

On November 3, 2022, Tom McIntyre’s overworked heart shut down while he slept, depriving his…
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…

Hunting As Writ

Like Robert Ruark’s hero, Alec Barr, in The Honey Badger, who “knew he had them,…
A proper reading chair, with good light, in the hours before dawn. The cushion in the window is for the cat, who declined to be photographed.

Mind Travels

Please forgive me for invoking Ernest Hemingway (yet) again, but whenever I start to write…

The Art of Stillness

Lessons from the hunt on living and dying. [by Nels Christensen]
gun and bullet box on fur

Still-Hunting, R.I.P.

CLARE IRWIN WAS THE MOST AT HOME in the woods of any man I’ve ever…

Remembrance of Rifles Past

Wherein a sweptback bolt becomes an insomniac’s grand pursuit. [by Rusty Ward]

David Hagerbaumer

Game birds on the wing, in a way we’ll never see again. [by Brooke Chilvers]

The Bell Project

Two hunter-philosophers honor the rifle of a great elephant hunter. [by Peter Ryan & Roger…

Gray’s Best Awards 2014

Given the bewildering array of magnificent sporting equipment available today, what does best really mean? We think…