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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

Kyrgyzstan Mid-Asian IbexBy Bryan Martin

Kyrgyzstan Overview Located at the heart of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan’s total area of 76,640 sq. miles is about the size of Nebraska, and borders with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China. The country is almost completely

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

A Conservation Story Par Excellence (and True), By Alexander Sharif

Editor’s Note: We’d like to thank our friends at the Wild Sheep Foundation for allowing us to re-publish this excellent piece from Alexander Sharif, found originally in the Summer 2016 issue of Wild Sheep Magazine.

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

North Slope AK Caribou DIY Tips By Ryan Clairmont

Alaska holds an abundance of opportunity for the big game hunter. It’s a state many hunters dream of hunting at least once in their lifetimes. But where does a person even start? Alaska is such

East Meets West By Beau Martonik

BACKGROUND For my entire life, I’ve been a hunter. I became hooked on bowhunting from the beginning, and would do anything to be a great archery hunter like my Dad. As I grew through my

Kyrgyzstan: Billies in the Crags, By Peter Hunt

One of the things I love most about hunting is travelling to places and seeing things that most people never will. Whether it’s the mountains and valleys of the backcountry of North America, or the

Born to Hunt: Reflections on the Yukon Territory By Nolan Osborne

“Some dogs are born to hunt and some destined to live in sedentary style, never getting far from the comfortable fireside of home. Men are not much different.” -A. Russell, Grizzly Country I thought I’d caught sheep fever

Central Asia At a Crossroads By Eric Jones, Co-Founder Foreign-Intrigue.com

Central Asia is once again emerging as an important crossroads in a geopolitical competition between great and rising powers, notably China, Russia and the United States. In the years following the US military invasion of