Ultralight Gear for Backpack Hunters
Lightweight gear allows backpack hunters to hunt longer, climb higher and get further off the grid. Here are some of the best ultralight products on the market.
CVA Accura MR
The Accura MR is short and light, making it easy to wield in the mountains or in a stand.
Simple Directions
I admit it. I’m an old guy, and I do not really like technology all that much. When it comes to hunting laser rangefinders and, upon occasion, a trail camera, are about as high tech as I get. I’ve never been a big fan of using a GPS when hunting, preferring the old school way—the topographic map and compass.
When Housetraining Goes Awry
Please pardon my grammar if it's even more off than normal today, but I'm a tad frazzled. For the past 48 hours, I've been engaged in an activity that's both joyous and scream-into-a-pillow frustrating: housebreaking a dog. And I bought not one, but two springer pups. As if I thought one would be just too easy.
First Look 2013: Optics
Check out this rundown of some of 2013's upcoming optics releases—many of which will be on display at the 2013 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits in May.
In Memoriam of J. Guthrie
NRA editors and contributors share some of their fondest memories of outdoor writer J. Guthrie, who passed away on April 12, 2013 at the age of 37.
Hunting Dinosaurs
Like the fossilized skeletons of its ancestors displayed in the Smithsonian, a 12-foot alligator can be scary even when it’s dead—something that Shooting Illustrated's Adam Heggenstaller learned in person during a gator hunt in Florida.
Drinking and Riding?
Let’s say, hypothetically, that you’ve been up since 3 a.m. You spent a few hours in the saddle in the darkness before hiking 1,500 or so vertical feet and then side-hilling and glassing all day
A Gator Goes Shopping
A Florida Wal-Mart was forced to lock its automatic doors when a deal-hungry alligator tried to make its way inside.
Member's Hunt: The Legend of the Bell Buck
NRA member Jim Izzo was hunting bucks in western Montana with Big Salmon Outfitters when he encountered a buck that will forever 'ring' in his memory.
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