After decades of working and playing on the ice, I have a healthy respect for it. One poor choice can put you in deep trouble. Literally.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: The Unfreezable Wood Frog
Have you ever seen a wood frog? Wood frogs are not as familiar to most of us as the common bullfrogs and green frogs that we see near ponds and lakes, but wood frogs live throughout much of the Midwest and northeastern United States and most of Canada.
10 Reasons You Should Gift A Crossbow For Christmas
Hunting is one of the most popular outdoor activities during the pandemic and it looks like restrictions on group gatherings will last well into 2021, perhaps through the fall season.
Fishing Friday: Texas Winter Offshore Fishing Can Bring Hot Results
For many people, their offshore fishing experience begins and ends with the brief federal red snapper season during the summer. However, in Texas state waters, which extend out to nine nautical miles from shore, one can catch red snapper and many other species all year long.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: The Rare Black Squirrel
Everyone is familiar with squirrels. In certain areas, gray squirrels are the most common. In other areas it is the larger fox squirrel. There is another squirrel that you might see, however, and it is jet black.
Symphony Of The Pre-Rut
It is quiet, but it is not total silence. The steady hum of insects of the night buzz like an old television stuck on the static of dead air. The air is crisp and damp, and it smells like dead leaves and dirt.
Muzzleloading Made Simple
Traditions introduces the NitroFire Muzzleloader in their quality line of firearms. Finally, no more misfires or hang-fires, and loads that always go BOOM!
Chasing Pheasants: A South Dakota Cajun Invasion
When you’re offshore fishing, the horizon seems untouchable, the vast expanse gives an immediate sense of freedom. I didn’t know another place could duplicate that feeling, until seeing the Prairies of South Dakota.
Stand Up and Paddle
Stan Murray believes in being active. He spent more than 40 years working in the banking business and nearly 30 years as an on field official for South Eastern Conference football.
Slinging Bugs and Whipping Fish: A Family of Fly Fishermen
Andy Johnson has been many things in his life. He’s a successful community banker in Northeast Mississippi. He is a husband. He is a proud father of two. But it’s safe to say that his mind often wanders to the rivers and streams of the American West.
Getting Off The Road
Joe Bostick is a friendly, quiet, unassuming man. The owner of Bostick Construction in Columbus, Mississippi, Bostick’s open-handed and soft-spoken demeanor give no hint as to his passion in life – building and driving off road vehicles.
Heeding the Call
Corey Ellis works at a local steel mill in Lowndes County, Mississippi. He loves his job, but it’s fair to say that his real passion is that most American of species - the wild turkey. Ellis has been hunting the wild birds since he was 15 years old.