Sound off: Letters to the Editor

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Props to the Forecast Issue I would like to comment on the reader that had the complaint on the May-June issue concerning giving exact hunting unit numbers away. That issue is what makes this magazine what it is. People subscribe to this magazine because of the respectable information [...]

Fresh Sign

Edited by David King Grizzly killed in bitterroots Genetic test results on the grizzly bear killed in the Kelly Creek area of the Bitterroot ecosystem show it was from the Selkirks in north Idaho. A hunter from Tennessee on an outfitted bear hunt in Idaho’s North Fork Clearwater River drainage killed a grizzly bear on [...]

Mr. Mass

By Steve Merritt If there is anyone out there that loves antlers more than me I would be surprised, especially antlers from big mule deer. There is just something about big mule deer that gets me really excited. I believe that big mule deer are some of the smartest animals on earth. I have seen [...]

Nevada Dream

The Pursuit of a 391 Gross Bull Elk By Verne Atwood One can only dream of having a year like the one I had in 2006. In June, my wife and I had just returned to our home in Ely, Nevada from a successful black bear hunt on Vancouver Island, British Columbia to find out [...]

The King Blacktail

Story of a Great buck from the past. By Nondy Weaver Dennis King is a good friend of mine. One fine evening, he sat down with me and told me his story of how, when, and where he harvested an incredible blacktail buck. It was late October of 1970 and it was pouring rain in [...]

Skoronski Bull

Skoronski Bull The archery, muzzleloader and early rifle seasons had passed and Ron Skoronski was starting to worry. Utah’s elk season was coming to a close and he still had not heard from his guide, Doyle Moss of Mossback Guides and Outfitters, if he had found a monster bull. While scouting earlier in the year, [...]

Brennan Buck

Brenan Buck It was the summer of 2005 and Rob Brennan had just set up another trail camera. Within a week the camera had captured some photos of a spectacular buck. When Rob’s children saw the pictures and the rack the deer carried, their first words were, “Big and nasty!” The name stuck and so [...]

Arledge Buck

Arledge Buck It was 1997 and Robert Arledge had just wrapped up thirty days of hard scouting. During that time, he had found just one buck that he wanted to pursue once the season began. However, this one buck was something special as he carried a huge rack with a noticeable mass of antler on [...]

Predatorflage

By Les Johnson As a die-hard predator caller, I’ve spent a lot of time figuring out what it takes to bring a predator in close. I believe one of the more important aspects of predator calling is concealment. I like to call predators within shotgun range which means that my concealment has to be good. [...]

You have got to see it to Believe it!

By Cory Lundberg We had been driving for what seemed like an eternity down two-track after two-track, the sage flats seemed to go on forever. We knew there were coyotes out there and plenty of them. None of us wanted to be driving when we could be hunting, but a vantage point never seemed to [...]

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