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HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO PUT AN ARROW INTO A DEER? AND WHEN WILL THE REST OF MY LIFE START TO MATTER AGAIN? I found the only other guy [...]

Too many folks, turkey hunting is what keeps you sharp for deer season, but this man knows better. 'Get ya butt to bed,' Squawks the rose-breasted cockatoo in Jimmy Webber's [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey SOME THINGS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN A PERCH RUN Did you ever have one of those days on the water when you happened to be in exactly [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey LIFE AS A HUMBLE FARMER LOOKS PRETTY GOOD TO ME NOW Last summer, Jack Unruh, Illustrator of this column, and I, with no more sense than a [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Until very recently, my entire knowledge of ice fishing came from a story my father told when I was a kid. Driving along the shore of a [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey No part of this magazine is more eagerly awaited than the sage advice from the likes of Jerome B. Robinson, Keith McCafferty, and T. Edward Nickens. These [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey RON EWERT 30-POINT NONTYPICAL WHITETAIL; LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS; OFFICIAL B&C SCORE: 255 6/8; THIRD BIGGEST NONTYPICAL WITH BOW IN THE STATE, SEVENTH BIGGEST IN NORTH AMERICA While [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey The masthead of this magazine is loaded with the names of guys who can make a fire by rubbing two icicles together, catch a tarpon on a [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey The first rule introducing a kid to fishing is that you absolutely must catch fish. Later on, he or she may be open to the idea of [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Once or twice a year, some manufacturer of hunting gear mistakes me for a serious outdoor writer and invites me on a free hunt. Since the call [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Mike Iaconelli kills the engine, sheds his life jacket, jumps up on the bow, and begins unfolding the trolling motor before his bass boat even comes off [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey I never expected to say this, but here goes: I'm glad the season is almost over. I say this for the following reasons: *If, like me, you [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey I came to Mongolia to flyfish for Taimen, the legendary salmonlike fish that lives in its big rivers. When fly-fishing didn't work, I tried spinning with lures. [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Eating an early dinner in the cook tent the evening before firearms season opens, we hear distant bugling, and all nine of us hit the tent flap [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Not long ago, curious to see firsthand how local government wastes my tax dollars, I hitched a ride with the only game warden in the District of [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey For the past 40 minutes, ever since the floatplane lifted off the lake in Schefferville, the scenery below has been singularly constant. It's a land of glacier-smoothed [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey It's not that I was cocky at the start of last year's deer season. It's just that the only new equipment I expected to need was an [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey I'm on my hands and knees on an uneven outcropping, holding my bow flat against the rock, moving forward an inch or so at a time. The [...]

This is Field & Stream's premier installment of American Scene, a series of fly-on-the-wall reports on outdoorsmen participating in the actual chase and in all manner of rituals that are [...]

All I know is the tug in my blood that announced itself suddenly in my late thirties must have come from someplace. I can't lay it at the feet of [...]

'CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING?' the famous outdoor writer asked suddenly. We'd been in his jeep for about 100 miles on our way to a tidal river on Maryland's eastern [...]

I keep opening the hatch to the livewell to make sure this is really happening to me. Inside is a largemouth twice as big as any I've ever caught before: [...]

I WAS FEELING PRETTY ORGANIZED FOR A GUY WHO OFTEN shows up at work without a belt. It was my third camping trip with my girlfriend, Jane, and because the [...]

When time is short and the fishing is more important than the catching, this is the place to be. It's the place you can get to in under an hour, [...]

Does your best fishing partner always have to be your best friend? Not necessarily. 'Think they might be moving,' says a voice on the phone. It's Greg. We last spoke [...]

ONLINE DATING being pretty much the freak show you would imagine, I didn't rush to join. And when I finally did decide to put together a profile, my first move [...]

UNTIL RECENTLY, I considered myself as diehard an angler as anyone. Ready to head out rain or shine, whether they were biting or not, willing to return only when (a) [...]

EVERY SO OFTEN I scam a hunting or fishing trip so far above my station in life that when it's over, I become severely depressed. One minute I'm buddy-buddy with [...]

EVERY YEAR ABOUT this time I methodically look through my fishing tackle and my head starts to hurt. My stuff is about as organized as a bag full of snakes. [...]

'Most guys who fish here never bother to find out where the ledges are,' Jeff DeLong confides as he unhooks a 3-pound bass that just inhaled a 4-inch blue-black spider [...]

We camped that night on a stone shelf you couldn't have parked three bicycles on, just 4 feet above water level, and prayed that the river wouldn't rise. Greg and [...]