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Miracle on the Mountain,By Nathan French

It all started at the early age of eleven. After immigrating to Canada from England, I was quickly introduced to the hunting lifestyle that beautiful British Columbia had to offer. Moving opposite a taxidermy shop,

Camp-Fire Tales From Boone & Crockett Club’s Classics Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies

  Who is there who does not love a good story, told to eager and sympathetic listeners beside a generous camp-fire! Show me a man who does not, and I will show you a man

A Day to Remember By Clay Peck

  The alarm went off at four in the morning, and I eagerly jumped out of bed. It was time for my long-awaited goat hunt. I had drawn a Limited Entry Hunting (LEH) tag in

Bears on the Beach, By James Dorrett

2017 didn’t exactly start out as I’d planned. I took time off guiding to work construction across the country in Newfoundland and never in the past few years have I ever been so out of

The Old Warrior, by Fred Peters

Central Arizona may seem an unlikely place to hunt black bear, but bear do inhabit the brush and cactus covered mountains and canyons, and an inordinate number of them reach the huge proportions that hunters

Fortune Favors the Bold, By Scott Hill

The Back Story… For as long as I can remember, my eyes have been drawn to rugged mountaintops, low-lying saddles, and windswept ridges. Call it a habit. Call it conditioning from a lifetime of searching

Three for Three – A February Goat Hunt, By Blake Rothschild

February is not your typical month to head afield in search of big game. However, in Alaska we are blessed with the opportunity to hunt mountain goats as late as March in some areas. But

American Buffalo – Chapter 10, by Steven Rinella

By the summer of 1872, literally thousands of buffalo hunters had converged on the Great Plains. They had (or would soon earn) names like Buffalo Bill Comstock, Buffalo Bill Cody, Cross Eyed Joe, Apache Bill,

Muley Mountain HighBy Ian Baird

There are three things in my life to which all my passion is devoted: my faith, my family, and my love for hunting. I did not grow up doing much hunting, as my dad stopped

Less than 24 Hours in [Speed] Goat CountryBy Brandon Purcell

Pronghorn antelope. Speed goat. Prairie devil. The animal doesn’t exactly conjure up images of high vistas or epic mountain scenery, but in certain areas of basin country in the American West, they live in some