Long-Range Expert…Or Poser?
To Shoot or Not to Shoot? I am a hunter. As a hunter, I’ve learned to understand when a shot is solid or ill-advised and whether to attempt it. Whether using a recurve, compound...
Category: Hunting Techniques and Stories
Long Range Hunting : One-Shot Cold Barrel Challenge!
Long Range Redux I cannot set up and take a 700 yard cross-canyon sheep, elk, or deer kill shot confidently. Simply, I haven’t taken the time to prove to myself that I can execute...
Owyhee Desert Mule Deer
High Desert Mule Deer When I was about thirteen or fourteen years old I saw the biggest mule deer buck of my life. We weren’t in the high mountains or thick buckbrush country, nor...
Cow Elk – Sneaking Away from the Crowd
Cow Tag Our family values wild game meat as our core protein source. Cow elk represent 100 to 150 pounds of organic meat on the table in one shot. For that reason, we are...
December Mule Deer
Wow! Christmas comes second. For me, the most important day of the year is the day we learn what big game tags we drew. Thankfully I have a large hunting family, so there is...
Hunt of a Lifetime : Desert Bighorn Sheep Dream Hunt – Part 2
A New Hope (Read Part I Here) Our motel gave us free coffee fills in the morning, for which I was immensely grateful. Day one of the hunt was underway. A short drive of...
Hunt of a Lifetime : Desert Bighorn Sheep Dream Hunt – Part 1
The Setup There is something about the Mojave Desert that is just so enchanting to me. With its stark and colorful mountains, bared naked by the elements to flaunt their geologic conception, and the...
Bone it Out – Pack it Out
My First Time! I dumped that cow elk at about 1:30 pm on a mid-October afternoon. My dad and I had been hiking since before sunrise and we were spent. Add those two things...
Know Your Shot! – Maximum Point Blank Range
The Problem The modern hunting rifle chambered in a flat-shooting cartridge is a highly effective tool for hunting big game. We can launch hunting bullets from most big-game cartridges at about 3,000 feet per...
Record Book Pronghorn- Part 2
So my wife had taken a beautiful pronghorn in 2015 (see Part 1 of this article) and we decided this area would be our new family “go-to” choice for antelope tags. Lucky boy that...
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