“Tag: Skills”

Here are some old school skills that are as important and valid today as they were when bread was a dime a loaf, and people got their news by reading a newspaper.

Want to keep the thrill of the hunt going? Hunt with your feet, not feet-per-second.

Here’s how to handle various emergency situations in the wilderness, including hypothermia, severe bleeding, an animal attack, getting lost and snake bites.

Before fall big-game seasons begin, it’s important to build confidence in your rifle, ammo and optics—and how you perform with them in hand. To do so, it pays to put in practical range time, shooting not only from field positions but also building skill at quick, accurate follow-up shots.

Everything from offroad driving to backcountry first-aid—25 skills you just can't do without.

Nobody likes being hit hard in the shoulder every time they squeeze the trigger on his or her favorite shotgun or rifle. But recoil is a reality of the nature of firearms: The more power, the greater the bite.

Contributor Mike Roux draws on a lifetime of personal and professional experience to consider the question: where should bowhunters really be aiming?

Most hunters will never attend the U.S. Army Sniper School in Ft. Benning, Ga., or similar courses conducted by other branches of our military, but the basic elements of this type of training should be recognized as worthy techniques for any hunter to take to the field. Here are a few elements from their playbooks we can pocket for future success.

Here are a few drills to do now that will make you confident come fall when that buck of a lifetime is standing 350 yards away and the sun is fading fast.