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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 Before we head out into the steamy afternoon on Nicaragua's remote San Juan River, Philippe Tisseaux wants me to pay a visit to the hospital. Or rather, [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey I had the dream again last night. The one that's not really a dream at all but a memory so old and deeply fixed that it has [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Beware those sweet little grandmothers from the city who don't take up fishing until later in life. They'll eat your lunch. Judy Israel, 58, the winningest woman [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey A few years ago I was stuck in a tent for three days during a freak snowstorm in the woods of western Maryland. As I waited to [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey It all began innocently enough. Okay, maybe not so innocently. It was Sunday. My wife had just headed off to hunt the malls. The deal we have [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey I have absolutely no business being here. None of us do. But on an unseasonably warm spring day like this one, when the sun decides to punch [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey So it's finally over. You've either got a deer in the freezer or you don't. You're either doing the funky-chicken victory dance or deciding whether to throw [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey; Steve Williams (Q) With Interior's emphasis on privatization of lands, how are we going to be able to maintain good levels of public access? (A) You have [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Hunting deer at the very end of the season is the one time in your life when being a little bit nuts actually works in your favor. [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey A guy I know actually did the following things this past year: --Locked himself out of his car (twice). --Dropped a brand-new Leatherman Wave into 24 feet [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey 'We're always on the lookout for meat,' says Laura Rhea, president of the Arkansas Rice Depot, a food bank serving 300 church pantries across the state. She [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey I went to a cocktail party the other night, an activity I don't particularly recommend. For certain men, temporary incarceration in a small space with strangers pretending [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Nobody was home to stop me last Saturday, so I watched bass shows on cable television for six hours. That's right, six straight hours of rod-bending, line-stretching, [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Judy Dulin and her husband, Granvel, former tobacco farmers in Crofton, Kentucky, bought into a plan from Oklahoma-based B&B Worm Farms: For a $10,000 investment, B&B offered [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Imagine you and a friend paid $5,000 to chase elk in Wyoming. You knock down a 380-class elk, only to have it claimed by other hunters when [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Things get kind of slow in my neck of the woods around now. Even the bass get bored. Average daily highs in the slow-roast range have pushed [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey Television executives couldn't believe their good fortune in the past few years when the American public gobbled up reality-based shows like Survivor, Temptation Island, and The Bachelor. [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey The fish strained left, ran right, jumped, and tried to shake the hook, then darted under the canoe to sulk. It made a last furious run, trying [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey The dogs are free-casting along a wash at the bottom of a nameless canyon in the Atascosa Mountains a few miles north of the Mexican border, silently [...]

Byline: Bill Heavey What do you do when the follow-up shot fails? Apparently, you sue. When professional hunter Rolf Rohwer had to follow up a terrible shot a client made [...]

Nothing beats the feeling--your heart full of hope and anticipation, your senses already working overtime--of sneaking into the whitetail woods in the dark-dark. Electricity and flashlights have made us such [...]

Plenty of work and an unprecedented demand for qualified employees in A/E firms are driving up architect's wages at all levels, according to a recent survey conducted by Orinda, California-based [...]

The average cost of building a new elementary school in 1999 jumped a whopping 21 percent over the previous year, to $9.2 million, according to a survey by American School [...]

Preservation-savvy real estate agents have a competitive edge when it comes to selling historic properties. And preservationists figure that educated homeowners make better stewards of historic properties. Such is the [...]

The numbers are in, and they're very, very good. Bonuses for A/E firm principals jumped 50 percent in the past two years, according to a survey conducted by Zweig White [...]

Survival tricks to get you through the apocalypse. Or not ONE DAY VERY SOON, the world as you know it is going south. Your Wi-Fi crashes in the middle of [...]

I THOUGHT I'd left the Potomac behind when I moved away a couple of years ago. It turns out that the river does not practice catch-and-release. It's barbed water. In [...]

ON ELECTION YEAR like this one leaves a person thirsty for reassurance that courage and decency still exist. I found this very thing in a desk drawer recently--on an oral-history [...]

IT IS ALWAYS a privilege to be in a deer camp and to witness the old rituals that never get old: a boy too excited to sleep the night before [...]

You can spend hundreds on a tsunami-proof rain jacket. But when all you want is something to keep in the truck or stuff in a pack to keep you from [...]

PHEASANT HUNTING is, by any rational standard, crazy. You spend a bunch of time and money getting to someplace like South Dakota, where they have tons of birds and the [...]

I AM BLESSED in having a mate who understands I basically lose my mind from mid October until the first of the year. During this time, for example, the importance [...]

ON CASE YOU EVER get thrown in jail-- and I'm not suggesting that you do--you probably already know which of your friends you'd burn your one phone call on. If [...]

WHEN A MAN ORDERS himself some new camo in one of the 'scientifically based' patterns--which are way better than the 'musically based' or 'Italian Renaissance-painter based' patterns of just a [...]

The Shenandoah Valley in Virginia is a virtual haven for fly-fishers and and trout anglers. Tourists interested in fishing sports and canoeing can avail of the services offered by firms such as the Shenandoah River Outfitters, River Rental Outfitters, and Angler's Lie.

EMMA IS 15, the age at which she wonders why it took so long to see that you, her father, are an idiot. It's not just that you are clueless [...]

I JUST TURNED 60. Or, as Michelle puts it, 'More like 15 for the fourth time.' Having just spent a year being 59, I had a pretty good idea which [...]

SOMEBODY AT the Camp Fire Club of America invited my friend Steve Burnett to its 2015 Spring Encampment, an annual outdoor-skills competition at the club's 233-acre preserve, and he invited [...]

FIFTEEN MONTHS AGO, Michelle and I-in the great American tradition of utter financial cluelessness--bought a house twice as large and expensive as we needed or could afford. Now we're putting [...]

I DON'T USUALLY tell people this, but I'm a life coach to some of the best-known names in the industry. You know that fishing show with the host who talks [...]

RECENTLY RETURNED from the annual SHOT (Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade) Show in Las Vegas. It's a four-day orgy of stuff you don't need. Yet. But if the marketing guys [...]