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Brooke with Legendary PH and husband, Rudy Lubin

Legendary Professional Hunters I Have Known

I already had a boyfriend—maybe three—when I met Rudy Lubin at a caviar dinner at…
Wieland’s old friend, George Calef, in the Yukon in 2008. George was then in his mid-60s, and strolled around with a heavy pack like it was nothing. Those twigs you see sticking out of the pack were firewood to fuel our little ‘ZZ’ stove.

Take the Long Way ‘Round

We’ve posted here several pieces on physical fitness for various types of hunting, with specialized…
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]