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IT WAS JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2012 when Scott Lutz got the first clue that the values of the Colt 'snake gun' revolvers--the Anaconda, Boa, Cobra, Diamondback, King Cobra, Python and [...]

KRISTIE MCEWAN NEVER THOUGHT SHE'D own a handgun, much less have and use a concealed-carry permit. But then she met her future husband, Chip, several years ago, and he had [...]

YOU'VE JUST DEFENDED YOUR LIFE with a firearm, either in your home or outside of it, the latter with your legally permitted concealed-carry handgun. Your first phone call will be [...]

Brian McCombie's essays and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. Book Info:DIRT MUSIC Tim Winton Publisher:New York: Scribner, 2002 416 pp., $26.00 People have an amazing ability […]

Brian McCombie's reviews and essays have appeared in Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and Newsweek. Book Info:THE SHADOW BOXER Steven Heighton Publisher:New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002 400 pp., $14.00 In The Shadow […]

Brian McCombie's essays and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, Kirkus Reviews, and New Letters. Book Info:AN AFFAIR OF HONOR Richard Marius Publisher:New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001 592 pp., $26.95 [...]

If you've seen past episodes of the popular television show 'Pawn Stars,' you'll recognize Sean Rich, the historical firearms specialist called in whenever someone wanted to sell an antique or [...]

Brian McCombie's essays and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. Book Info:THE FAITHFUL NARRATIVE OF A PASTOR'S DISAPPEARANCE Benjamin Anastas Publisher:New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001 [...]

Brian McCombie's essays and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. To the extent that Julius Caesar still factors into our consciousness, it's probably as Shakespeare's Caesar: powerful, [...]

Brian McCombie's essays and reviews have appeared in Newsweek, Booklist, and the Bloomsbury Review. Book Info:FLUDD Hillary Mantel Publisher:New York: Henry Holt, 2000 181 pp., $13.00 Gabriel Garc'a Marquez's novels, [...]

In April, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources added eight days to its deer season during which hunters may shoot only does in 97 of the state's 23 deer management [...]

Migratory firsts in America * The first bird banding in America is credited to John James Audubon, who banded a brood of phoebes in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1803 to […]

Brian McCombie's reviews and essay have appeared in New Letters, Booklist, and Newsweek. Book Info:ON PAROLE Akira Yoshimura, trans. Stephen Snyder Publisher:New York: Harcourt Brace, 2000 256 pp., $23.00 Our [...]

It's true there are a number of threats to hunting's future. But dwelling on them can make us forget that we actually have many resources at our disposal to defend [...]

WHEN HURRICANE FLOYD slammed into the East Coast last September, fish and wildlife were affected as well as people. Some of the major impacts: In North Carolina, huge amounts of [...]

THE PEREGRINE FALCON, THE WORLD'S SPEEDIEST BIRD, WAS removed from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) endangered species list in August 1999. Peregrine numbers dropped in the 1960s because [...]

Contest Hunts Rejected--The Arizona Game and Fish Commission banned contest hunts last September after animal rightists made an issue of one contest offering a $10,000 first prize for the most [...]

Prechtel, Martin. Long Life, Honey in the Heart. Oct. 1999. 384p. illus. Penguin, $25.95 (0-87477-994-4). DDC: 299. Prechtel grew up on a New Mexican Indian reservation, but, in search of [...]

Brian McCombie's reviews, essays, and articles have appeared in Booklist, New Letters, Newsweek, and Writer's Digest. Book Info:A CORNER OF THE VEIL Laurence CossA Translated by Linda Asher Publisher:New York: [...]

Want to explore one of the many shipwrecks of the Great Lakes? You don't have to get wet (or leave your seat). Start by surfing these sites. Ice-Water Mansions: Shipwrecks […]

Much to the dismay of Jim Baum, King County, Washington, saves its wetlands for endangered creatures--species like salmon, bull trout and ... "Bipedus gigantus," a.k.a. Bigfoot. Baum bought a 17-acre […]

A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California before the Gold Rush. Ed. by Joshua Paddison. June 1999. 368p. index. illus. Heyday, paper, $16.95 (1-890771-13-9). DDC: 979.4. Writer-historian Paddison brings together [...]

Hoover, Edwin A. and Hoover, Colette Lombard. Getting Along in Family Business: The Relationship Intelligence Handbook. June 1999. 272p. index. Routledge, $29.95 (0-415-92189-9). DDC: 658. Want to make your family [...]

Greenlaw, Linda. The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey. May 1999. 288p. Hyperion; dist. by Little, Brown, $22.95 (0-7868-6451-6). DDC: 639.2. Originally profiled in Sebastian Junger's hugely popular The Perfect [...]

Foster, David R. Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape. May 1999. 259p. index, illus. Harvard, $27.95 (0-674-88645-3). DOC: 818. Foster, an ecology instructor at Harvard University, charts the social [...]

Neugeboren, Jay. Transforming Madness: New Lives for People Living with Mental Illness. May 1999. 384p. index. Morrow, $25 (0-688-15655-X). DDC: 616.89. Neugeboren surveys the mental health care system, discussing what [...]

Loeb, Paul Rogat. Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time. May 1999. 368p. index. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $15.95 (0-312-20435-3). DDC: 361.2. Social scholar and lecturer Loeb [...]

Given the huge demand for ammunition during the past several years, it's no mystery why more companies are getting into the business of making and selling ammo. So when I [...]

Carey, Robin. North Bank: Claiming a Place on the Rogue. Nov. 1998. 128p. Oregon State Univ., $19.95 (0-87071-448-1). DDC: 979.5. Outdoor writer Carey lives in southwestern Oregon, just off the [...]

Casten, Thomas R. Turning Off the Heat: Why America Must Double Energy Efficiency to Save Money and Reduce Global Warming. Nov. 1998. 288p. index. illus. Prometheus, $26.95 (1-57392-269-2). DDC: 333.7916. [...]

Masumoto, David Mas. Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil. Oct. 1998. 256p. Norton, $22.95 (0-393-04673-7). DDC: 630. Masumoto intersperses descriptions and observations of life on his family's farm in [...]

Schaeper, Thomas J. and Schaeper, Kathleen. Cowboys into Gentlemen: Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite. Oct. 1998. 428p. index. illus. Berghahn, $29.95 (1-57181-116-8). DDC: 378.3. Every [...]

Hallock, Daniel William. Hell, Healing and Resistance: Veterans Speak. Oct. 1998. 445p. Plough, $25 (0-87486-959-5); paper, $17 (0-87486-962-5). DDC: 172. Using interviews with dozens of veterans, plus his own time [...]

Hamill, Pete. Why Sinatra Matters. Oct. 1998. 128p. Little, Brown, $19.95 (0-316-34796-5). DDC: 782.42164. A combination biography and cultural analysis by the author of A Drinking Life (1993). In Hamill's [...]

Gelb, Michael. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Everyday Genius. Sept. 1998. 336p. illus. Delacorte, $24.95 (0-385-32381-6). DDC: 153.3. No matter how diligently we apply ourselves, [...]

Quick About Face--A pair of burglars in Lake Mary, Fla., got the surprise of their lives recently. They smashed in a glass sliding door and entered a residence only to [...]

CALIFORNIA HANDGUNS OWNERS TOOK a hard slap in the face this past May when that state's Department of Justice suddenly announced a firearms law in effect that could add $200 [...]

LAST YEAR, AND WITHOUT ANY FANFARE, the Federal Bureau of Investigation made a major change in the agency's handgun training regime. New handgun training protocols, as well as standardized firearms [...]

There are not a huge number of new range finders on the market for 2013, but the recent offerings all have one thing in common: laser technology. Not surprisingly, these [...]

LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES MAKE FEW decisions that impact the safety of their officers and the public more than the choice of duty firearms. But how are those decision made? As [...]

I lined up my scope's crosshairs just above and behind the shoulder of the wild boar. He stood 180 yards away on the side of a ravine, his head down [...]

TEN INDIANS Madison Smartt Bell New York: Pantheon, 1996 264 pp., $23.00 It's one of the key questions of our times: What should be done to help the people of [...]

IN 2001, MICHIGAN BECAME A 'SHALL issue' state for concealed carry, meaning that any adult who meets the qualifications for the permit is supposed to receive the permit (versus 'may [...]

To kill an animal with a single shot is the goal of every responsible hunter. Most of us were taught to put a bullet in the 'boiler room,' the heart [...]

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THAT A PERSON cannot get a concealed-carry permit in California. Not true, says Chuck Michel. Lead attorney for the California law firm of Michel and Associates, [...]

THE INDIANA LEGISLATURE has approved the Grouseland Rifle to the list of official state emblems, and the bill was headed to Governor Mitch Daniels for his expected signature. 'This rifle [...]

LATE LAST YEAR, NORTH CAROLINA AND Wisconsin became the two most recent states to have castle-doctrine laws go into effect. So named because a person's 'home is his castle,' castle-doctrine [...]

LIKE ANY GOOD CITIZEN, AARON CROWDER of Leitchfield, Kentucky, contacted police as soon as he discovered his Remington 700 rifle was stolen. He filed a report, complete with the firearm's [...]