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Kodiak Goat Hunt

Transitions – A Kodiak Goat Hunt, By Ben Reynolds

October on Kodiak Island signals a transition for the island. The last of the silvers have spawned in the streams cleaving the coastline. The brown bears are working their way inland and the high pressure

Sheep Hunting

Patience Is A Virtue, By Tom Jackson

It’s July 29th at 8:00 a.m. and the phone rings. It’s Al, one of my sheep hunting mentors. “Good Morning Tom, what time are you guys leaving this morning?” This Morning? Holy shit! What day

American Buffalo, By Steven Rinella

The hide boom only lasted a dozen years before the buffalo ran out. The first big hunting push was in the vicinity of Dodge City. In 1871, the first big year, the hide hunters killed

Man of Stone Part 1, By Kyle Crawford

“Dad, he’s up. Get ready to shoot,” l told my dad as he took aim on the 10 year-old, full-curl ram we had been trying to get for two days, but let’s start back at

Man of Stone Part 2, By Kyle Crawford

*Continued from Man of Stone Part 1 Friday, August 31, 2012 We got an early move on at first light and made the 1 hour hike back to the ridge where we saw the rams

The Final Stalk – From Boone and Crockett Club’s Classics “The Wilderness Of The Upper Yukon”

  www.boone-crockett.org August 2. – We rose late, to find the sun brightly shining. Rungius soon started to look at his caribou carcass; Osgood and Gage went to get the meat of Osgood’s ram. I

Wolves In The Saddle, By Dave Marsh

With a loud growl, the wounded wolf lunged toward Jason dragging its back legs behind it. It was down, but not out. We were without a gun and had to think on our feet. I

Second Chance Dall, By Blake Rothschild

For as long I can remember I have been fascinated with mountains and the wildlife that calls them home. In fact, the first thing I did after moving to Alaska was grab a set of

Magic Moment, By L. Victor Clark From The B&C Club’s “Big Trophies, Epic Hunts”

  www.boone-crockett.org In the early 70s I started hunting mule deer in the Pine Forest Range located in northern Nevada. Starting in 1973, every year for 20 years my wife Margie and I would spend

A Debt Paid In Stone, By Andrew Spear

It’s cold. The pain in my face has subsided after long days of working in the blowing snow, but Northern Alberta has finally afforded me the chance to do what I’ve been dreaming of for