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I hadn’t intended to hunt kudu until a magnificent bull leaped the road before us. The bull’s size, horns, gray striped hide, ruffed neck, deep chest ...

It had been a long, delightful day on the Namibia savannah. Strange animals, wondrous birds, weird, exotic cries cutting the hot air kept one guessing...

The rumble and pop of gravel on the surface of a dirt road is a welcoming sound. Unlike the hum of tires on the interstate or on a secondary road topp...

Right now what you see is what you’ll get when it comes to deer in general and bucks in particular. Since mid-May the bucks have been developing antle...

I’m often asked what I enjoy photographing the most, and my answer is usually birds. Before that it was elk, and before that it was deer. It’s a tough...

The problem with deer is that their sense of smell is fantastic and though they sometimes don’t trust their eyes quite as much as they should, any mot...

For some the very act of hunting can be competitive. A race to the top, see how many I am able to get, and it has to be the biggest and the best. Than...

It’s the phone call every assistant coach dreams of. For new University of Pittsburgh at Bradford’s men’s basketball head coach Ryan Shay, it came fro...

He says it’s circumstantial, but Todd Silfies is enjoying the final chapter of his temporary exit as a high school football coach. Silfies, 34, resign...

We have been very fortunate this year as far as the weather goes. I know it’s hard to believe, but during those very critical months of late April and...

Two hundred yards and back, it’s a walk many of us take when checking targets while spending time on the shooting range. And like many others, my spot...

I rolled over in bed, the blood red numbers on the clock glowing in the semi-darkness; 5:45 a.m. Today was Friday, the 6th of July, 2018. The silence ...

The word ‘hero’ is tossed around quite frequently these days. In this very sports section it’s used to describe a player hitting a walk-off home run o...

Across the first half of the 20th century milkweed was viewed as a weed. Farmers worked to eliminate its existence. However during WW II milkweed was ...

During a recent visit to Rhode Island where I was visiting my daughter, grandson Nate immediately backed me into a corner and demanded to know when we...

She stood looking alert with her fawn standing nearby. What a sight! Chances were that her newborn(s) were nearby. Now it’s beginning to be more commo...

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game marks the unofficial halfway point of the baseball season. It also heralds the arrival of the slowest sports w...

One of the most common animals of Namibia is the Warthog. These robust animals abound in great numbers. Males weigh up to 330 pounds and their appeara...

With the trade deadline quickly approaching, there will be a flurry of deals across Major League Baseball over the next couple of weeks. Some may seem...

Want to go fishing for muskies, better known as the fish of 10,000 casts? It was an invitation you couldn’t refuse. And we had fun. My friend, Dennis ...