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Lions Are Africa
The first roar was distant, so faint we didn't believe our ears. We answered anyway, just in case. The next roar, though barely heard on the breeze, was closer. We roared again, and there was a long, long silence. Then the next roar was loud and unmistakable, and much closer. This lion was coming to us, fast.All this was totally unplanned. We had seen big tracks, and we had hung a bait, but in the morning the meat was untouched. In the late afternoon we had built a blind and given just one roar to let the lion know another male was in his territory.

Santa's Gift Guide, Part 1
Leupold VX-3 Loaded with features, the Leupold VX-3 2.5-8x36mm is rapidly becoming the scope of choice for those wanting full-size performance with compact handling. The Xtended Twilight lens system specifically targets wavelengths found in low-light conditions. Edge-blackened lenses reduce diffusion and glare to improve resolution and contrast. Second-generation Argon/Krypton gas more effectively resists thermal shock, and the twin spring erector system with cryogenically treated adjustments ensures that every shot will be on target.

Winter Range
When I stepped off the plane in Hayden, Colorado, it was out of the frying pan and into the, well, deep freeze. I'd come straight from eighty-degree weather. In northern Colorado it was about ten degrees, and the forecast for that first December week was for the mercury to fall a great deal lower. My hunting partner, Matt Anderson, flew in with me, as did Conrad Evarts, Field Producer for "Petersen's Hunting Adventures Television."Matt is director of marketing and communications for the Tuscan, Arizona-based, SCI, so he was just as shocked by the cold as I was.

High Content Hero
When Yamaha introduced its revamped Grizzly 700 a few years ago, it delivered several upgrades to the nameplate, but also some key innovations--most notably, the industry's first use of electronic power steering.

Sans Buttstock
In 1846 Texas Ranger Captain Samuel H. Walker praised Colt's Paterson revolver but suggested changes. “With improvements, I think they can be rendered the most perfect weapon in the world for light mounted troops...”Spurred by the Ordnance Department's order for 1,000 of the new pistols, Walker and Sam Colt collaborated on a .44 revolver of immense proportions. The prototype built by the New York City gunshop of Blunt & Syms weighed four pounds, nine ounces.

Written Words
I think it's extremely important for writers to study other writers. Hopefully, we do this because we like to read and also because reading the words of other writers is one of the only ways we can improve our own. A good writer must be a good reader, and read enough to genuinely understand what the writer is trying to do with his words--and then make a conscious decision as to whether or not you like it.There's writing, and then there are writers. Both are worthy subjects.

Western Whitetails
Big whitetails are where you find them. These days, hunters are finding them in the West. Current Boone & Crockett listings show that of the top twenty typical bucks, two came from Alberta, two more from Montana. Among nontypical bucks, three of the top twenty were shot in Alberta, another in Idaho.Now, these are truly huge deer--the typical antlers scoring over 198 and nontypicals topping 267. Many lesser bucks with eye-popping racks hail from Canada's western prairies and the forests of our Pacific Northwest.

My First Whitetail
The year was 1974, a balmy October morning, and I was posted on a raised levee overlooking an endless expanse of partially flooded hardwoods and tangled underbrush. The North Carolina swamp was totally unfamiliar to this Kansas boy, as was the animal I was to wait for and shoot if I could. That animal was a whitetail deer, more specifically a male of the whitetail species.

Flyway Strategies
Today's waterfowl aren't the same birds we hunted twenty years ago. With innovations like anatomically perfect decoys, spinning wings and calls capable of sounding more natural than the ducks or geese themselves--well, let's just say the birds are much more educated. No more paper plates for snows, recycled radials for Canadas and misshapen mallard dekes. Today, waterfowl hunting is about realism both in sight and sound. It's about becoming invisible, and once things do happen, it's about you being able to capitalize on each opportunity.

Layer it!
If you're comfortable, you can forget about how you feel and concentrate on what you're doing. You'll stay focused longer and put in more hours, if your clothes make the experience fun. When the day becomes an exercise in survival, you might as well unload your rifle, because any chance for a shot becomes incidental. You've shifted your attention from the hunt to yourself.To hunt well, you must not only look into surrounding cover; you must step outside yourself and become your quarry's shadow. That mental commitment follows physical preparedness.

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