The November air was crisp, the kind of late fall evening where every crunch of leaves sends a deadly dose of adrenaline and cortisol...

“So, here’s how this is going to work," Jacob said. "I’m going to take the hood off the hawk’s head so she can see, then I’ll let her fly...

“Hey dad, what’s going on?” I talk to my dad once or twice a week, so I wasn’t surprised in the least that he was calling. It was the...

If you had told me I’d one day be lost in the chaos of Tokyo, Japan with a 60-pound pack on my back and skis in hand, on my way to chase...

Picture it, it’s 1999, you’ve been tasked with guiding an elite counter-terrorism unit called Rainbow. You must covertly travel the...

The 16” Simrad lit up. Giant blobs formed, unformed, moved, and rearranged on the screen. The 6ft radar dome was picking up birds about 3...

I reeled out of my first Dallas Safari Club Convention like a lush at closing time, having drunk my fill of bespoke rifles and exotic...

I spent a large portion of my twenties on the road as a traveling sales rep for a large hunting company. From trade shows, pop-ups, to...

It was late March 2021, I was loading more cut wood into a dying fire with my brother on his farm. We were probably talking about the...

Living in your older brother's shadow is tough. Regardless of what you achieve, if it falls short of what your family did before you, it...

As a young man, I always enjoyed the movie Secondhand Lions, which highlights the adventures of two brothers, Hub and Garth, from their...

Our three-man expedition party had just endured a long, grueling trek through an Alaskan tar pit, enveloped in a tunnel of twisted...

After years of talking about it but never actually committing, all it took was a friend's recent divorce to get myself and two other...

The sky was red and grey as we traversed up. Shale crunched and skidded beneath our boots. I glassed the opposite face, a menagerie of...

When Joseph first pitched the idea of “The Gun Vault”, I gotta be honest, I thought it was pretty stupid. People want to read reviews...

Photo provided by Ryan Blandford of RBMT Media Imagine it is the turn of the century. Picture a German immigrant who has recently started...

The standard, torturous iPhone alarm ring is heard within my dream. I regretfully reach over to grab it off my nightstand, ready to hit...

There’s history in metal, in leather. Stories that we will never know, but can only yearn to discover. They can be found on dusty shelves...

Loping ahead of the man, the lean dog tilted her nose up to better catch the wind. Snow tussocks billowed around the pair, as the hot...

I speculate on the theory of trout often, and wonder what they make of the chaos above the surface. Do they know of what is to come?...