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As our team of judges has done for many years now, we gathered in Bozeman, Montana, home of shooting editor John B. Snow, to conduct the test. After settling into [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 1 | Sitka Dutch Oven When it comes to technologically tricked-out hunting apparel, this vest stands alone. For starters, it's clad in the digital […]

Hunting season begins this month in many Western states, with applications due for limited-quota permits. These big-game lotteries distribute coveted bull, buck, and ram licenses, but also the antlerless tags [...]

Greg Ray, president of NRA Outdoors, a hunting and fishing trip agency, keeps getting calls from folks who own AR rifles but want to take them beyond the shooting range. [...]

* ARIZONA MULE DEER One of the legendary game areas of the nation, Unit 13 in the Arizona Strip grows immense bucks, with accordingly high pressure. Applications must be received [...]

The article recommends the use of recycled-content toilet paper. According to the author, about 424,000 trees will be saved annually through the use of the toilet paper. It also notes that saving 424,000 trees is possible if every household in the U.S. will use just one roll of recycled toilet paper per year.

If your rifle holds only three rounds, use this drill to practice topping off the rifle when it runs dry. Using your practice ammo, shoot a five-shot string at either steel or paper. Load four rounds, shoot the rifle dry, then reload one round for five shots total, preferably on a steel target at 100 yards. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on games areas in the U.S. including Unitl3 in the Arizona Strip, Hunting District 680 in the Missouri Breaks, and bridger-Teton national forest in Wyoming.

The article discusses the effects of the sale of forest land by timber companies on hunting in the U.S. Several former timber- and paper company-owned lands are now closed from public hunting. Some of the lands are already being developed wherein wildlife habitats were destroyed while others are bought by states and conservation organizations. With such sell-off, hunters have lost hunting opportunities. Several hunting clubs have lost their leases while the hunters look for other clubs and some even quit hunting.

The article offers information on various hunting animals in the West U.S. for meat including Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer and Moose. It states that trophy bighorn ram easy to hunt in Montana, mule deer found in southern Utah's Henry Mountains and Colorado and Shiras moose are declining in Montana and Wyoming.

The article discusses several tips which one can use and survive in every conditions. Topics discussed include making fire starters, sharps a knife with a rock, and heal the infection by pine gum. It also mentions how to make tripod water filter and oil soaked make toilet paper torch and the things needed like a freshly cut stick, forked at one end and toilet paper.

The article presents a step-by-step instructions on how to properly tune a hunting bow.

Offers pointers for setting up one's bow for hunting. Role of checking the wheels; Tips on examining the rest adjustment; Advice on eliminating the contact between the fletchings and the rest. INSET: Paper Trail.

The article offers information on grouse niches. Snowberries are a common grouse food in Western U.S., and grow in wide stands near ponderosa pines, aspen and spruce. In arid country, they stick close to streams and seeps for the moist plants and the insects that hatch every week or so. The paper "Predation Effects on Forest Grouse Recruitment," states that annual winter mortality of juvenile grouse was 66 percent for ruffed grouse, 48 percent for spruce grouse and 43 percent for blue grouse.

Presents a guide for assembling hunting bows. Attachment of nock points; Selection of the type of rest to use; Installation of the peep sight.

The article lists the essential elements of survival in the wilderness which include Make Fire, Find Water, and Build Shelter.

The article provides tips for appropriate tuning of arrows in bow hunting. Tim Gillingham, a professional archer, suggests a canister of foot powder for the tune up of arrow vanes. Gillingham mentions the paper-tuning of arrows for an accurate shooting ability of the bow and arrow. Furthermore, he explains the adjustment in the arrow nock.

The article offers information about self-contained metallic cartridge, a type of firearm ammunition packaging a projectile, a propellant substance and an ignition device within a metallic, paper or plastic case. It mentions how metallic cartridge precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breech loading gun, for the practical purpose of convenient transportation and handling during shooting.

The article focuses on the importance of range estimation to shotgun and muzzloader hunters when scouting for deer. The author relates his experience of targeting a white-tail on a 17-inch sheet of paper that is filled half the reticle of his 4X scope at 100 yards. He states the need for hunters to measure reticles with their own scope.

Provides information on the CD-ROM paper charts and the ChartKits and Waterproof Chartbooks navigation devices from Maptech. Advantages; Prices.

BY NATALIE KREBS ILLUSTRATION BY RICARDO REIS IT WAS THE DRIEST year on record when 21-year-old Paul Gatschet saw the advertisement in the local paper. Volunteers wanted, announced the Hays [...]

The article offers information on several handgun ammunition including Elite PDX1 Defender 147 GR from Winchester, Personal Defense HST 124 GR from Federal Premium, and TAC XPD 115 GR from Barnes.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for correct flying of broadheads used for hunting.

The article reports that a wallet with the date 1972 printed on a scrap of paper fell out of a cow shark caught by the crew of Irene's Way near Point Sur, California. According to NBC affiliate KSDK, the wallet contained no identification. The shark's stomach held severed seagulls and furry creatures, but no wallet-less owner.

The article discusses a report by the "Weekly World News" of the capture of Adolf Hitler by Arkansas duck hunters. In its January 2007 issue, it was reported that Arkansas duck hunters had surrounded Adolf Hitler who was hiding in a shack within the flooded timber around Stuttgart. According to the paper, which reported in its August 2005 edition of the capture of Osama Bin Laden by coon hunters in the Ozark Mountains, Adolf Hitler suffered a stroke during the handover to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The article features the story of deer hunter, Matthew Sutton, who was severely injured by an attack of grizzly bears in Kodiak Island in Alaska. According to Sutton, he felt instant pressure on the back of his neck when he was attacked and felt like being lifted in the air like a kitten hoisted by its mother. It states that Sutton acted to play dead and was soaked in blood until the rescue came. It notes that Sutton's willingness to live helped him to survive the bear's attack.

This article reports on a Quebec woman, Diane Guillemette, who made headlines early this year when she caught a Greenland shark through a hole in the ice, as of May 2006. Guillemette fought the shark for more than an hour and a half before hooking her line to a snowmobile and using it to pull the beast onto the ice. Unlucky for Guillemette that after making the papers for her catch, it was discovered she did not have the proper fishing permits.

His rifle is a Remington Model 700 BDL Mountain Rifle in .270 Winchester with a pencil-thin barrel, a low-density walnut stock, and rotary dovetail scope mounts. When I took the rifle apart, I saw the barrel was touching the fore-end on one side (No. 1, opposite), and it appeared the action wasn't making even contact with the stock's inletting. Pillars create noncompressible sleeves for the action screws, providing a solid connection between the bottom of the action and the top of the rifle's trigger guard. [Extracted from the article]

Deals with a report by newspaper columnist Jim Wilson about the abbagoochie creature that allegedly roams Webster County in West Virginia which turned out to be a hoax.

Provides information on electronics and mapping systems used in icefishing. Components of Global Positioning System; Advantages of using lake maps using computer-aided mapping technology; Limitations of underwater video cameras. INSETS: Look Down, Not Out;Lake Maps For Better Icefishing.

Presents an anecdote on sport fishing.

Presents an article on hunting accidents in Alaska. How the hunters handle the grizzly bear attack; How they are rescued; Lessons learned. INSET: A Happy Ending.

The article offers step-by-step instructions for making a mock rock.

The article offers advice on leasing land for hunting. Start searching for land where deer hide in. Scan maps and aerial photographs of the county and adjoining counties and mark places where one repeatedly sees bucks on the way to the supermarket. Visit the county courthouse and search who owns land that look like good places for hunting. Once a landowner agrees, seal the deal with an offer of $8 to $12 an acre for exclusive hunting rights. Another way is to place a classified advertisement in the local paper.

The article offers pieces of advice on emergency management. A variety of natural disasters hit the U.S. in 2005. There are possible occurrence of power outages in cities which may cause looters to appear and conduct incidents of assaults. Most hunters are accustomed to these similar emergencies in the wilderness. One of the basic emergency preparedness efforts is to keep an emergency kit to handle extreme weather conditions and hunger. INSET: THE 72-HOUR PACK.

Presents information on the tools needed to tune a bow for hunting. Reconditioned Model F-1 chronograph from Shooting Chrony; Bowmaster portable bow press from Protech Industries; Infinitely Adjustable Bow Vise from Apple Archery. INSETS: Calculating Kinetic Energy;Emergency Travel Repair Kit.

The article offers tips from waterfowl taxidermist Dale Manning of Custom Bird Works and Big Game Connections in Missoula, Montana on preserving birds. Manning suggests that the bird must be slipped on the sleeve of a pantyhose to protect the feathers and wet paper towels must be put around the feet and head before putting in a zip lock bag with head tuck under a wing and air out of the bag. Manning adds that freezing the mounts on a block of ice will keep it safe and in pristine condition.

The article evaluates several rifle cases including the Cabela's Large Scope Rifle Case from Cabelas, the Pelican Case 1750 from Pelican Accessories, and the Read Head Aluminum Rifle Case Bass Pro Shops Inc.

The article presents several camping tips for hunters and campers. The lightest and easiest warm-weather shelter to carry and set up is a hammock with mosquito netting and a rainfly, according to the author. To clean pots and pans easily after cooking, the author recommends to coat the outside with liquid soap before placing them over the fire. Keep bar soap clean by putting it in a sock and hanging it from a tree.

Deals with the availability of hunting areas in the U.S. which are owned by companies. Benefits of the process of harvesting trees on game habitat; Options for deer hunters to rent land from a timber company; Contact information. INSET: Hunting for a Good Cause.

The "false spring" tricked the shad fish into beginning their run up the Delaware River early". All of these dams have fish ladders, and while those work in theory, the reality is they can't let enough fish through for the Schuylkill to maintain even a fraction of its historical shad run. Scheel has been fishing the Delaware for more than 30 years, and he's known as a shad maestro. But Scheel opened my eyes to boat fishing for shad on the lower Delaware. [Extracted from the article]

GLO:out/01apr20:96n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): Gonzalez in his happy place - wading the banks of Montana's Bighorn River this past January gl In 1989, Gonzalez purchased a 20-acre plot of land located 13 river miles below the spillway where the Bighorn begins. I met Gonzalez - always just Phil to me - several years ago. Dudley Lutton, a mutual friend and local fishing legend in southwest Montana, had known Phil for decades and arranged for the three of us to fish the Bighorn. [Extracted from the article]

When the Trump administration announced its development plans for the forest after meeting with Gov. Mike Dunleavy (who campaigned on opening Alaska to more natural-resource extraction), fishing guides such as Hieronymus and the commercial fishing industry saw it as an attack on their livelihoods. Tongass salmon account for 28 percent of the commercial salmon harvest in Alaska, and the industry generates $986 million annually, according to the Forest Service. Beyond that, the old-growth timber is actually more diverse and better for wildlife than secondgrowth forests. But above us, north of town and up the mountain, in the darkness and the fog and the rain, sits an old-growth forest full of blacktail deer, brown bears, and spawning salmon. [Extracted from the article]

Presents the short story `The Magic Tree.'

The article presents suggestions on how rangers can get their rifles ready for hunting.

THE BEST wild fish or game meal is usually a simple one: meat, fire, and maybe a Little salt and pepper. Put the fillets on the grill, flesh side down to start, and cook until the meat just starts to char. When he was a boy, the state fish and game agency was working to recover elk populations from the ravages of market-hunting. Gary left more 6x6 racks behind than I will ever hang on my walls, but for him, the meat was always the real trophy. [Extracted from the article]