roger sager

(Editor’s note: This is the last outdoor column written by Roger Sager beforehis death on June 14. His children, Eric Sager and Suzi Marasco, transcri...

Longtime Bradford City policeman and outdoor columnist Roger Sager passed away Monday at UPMC Hamot in Erie, following a long illness. He was 72. “We’...

It seems that shooters and hunters are in the middle of another ammunition shortage that’s dragging on longer than may be expected. We’ve been through...

Unlike the virus and fever we are currently concerned with, there’s an ailment that specifically targets hunters and can strike at any time: buck feve...

My interest in ammunition and ballistics started early in my shooting career. As a kid, I pestered my father until he agreed to take me to a friend’s ...

Over the years, I’ve had lots of encounters with bears. I’ve written about a few of them before. Of all these little adventures, it seems most occur w...

I’ve spent a lot of time on shooting ranges over the years. Outdoors, indoors, strictly regulated or informal, some with dozens of firing points or ju...

From the time I was just a kid, I’ve always enjoyed hunting stories. The first-hand accounts of the hunting adventures of friends and relatives, wheth...

I guess just about everyone enjoys a campfire. You can’t take the term “campfire” too literally, however; quite often the fire has nothing to do with ...

As a young hunter, I listened with great interest to any advice offered by old-timers and the (probably unfounded) opinions of my young chums. Subject...

There’s a sign on my gun safe that states, “I’ve hunted nearly every day of my life, the rest have been wasted.” This sounds like a huge exaggeration,...

In my early teenage years, I’d already realized that I was hopelessly hooked on outdoor sports. I studied all the Outdoor Life and Sports Afield magaz...

I think it’s widely recognized that folks go through some different stages in their development as hunters. The length of time spent in these stages v...

Decades ago, I killed my first buck and I remember the details vividly. The season before that success was an experience I’d like to forget. Hunting a...