Gear

Killing a wild turkey is tough. I mean it takes more than savvy, preparation and experience, it takes good gear. Here’s my top five list of must-have pieces of turkey hunting equipment that will greatly improve your chance of putting a thunder chicken on the ground this season. [...]Read more

Twenty years ago, I thought it would be cool to camouflage my gun. This was before camo patterns were mass produced and offered as an option for new firearms. In addition to making my gun a part of my concealment for deer and turkey hunting, I figured the covering would also [...]Read more

The Chevy Suburban first put rubber to road in 1934, making it one of the longest-living vehicle models in auto history. This vehicle could be be viewed as the great-grandfather of today’s SUVs. It was developed as a “station wagoned-bodied” version of the [...]Read more

Chevy runs deep in my family — my dad drove Chevy’s, and I drive Chevy’s. I’ve owned and driven their cars, half-ton pickups, and Blazers, the big ones before there was such a thing as an “SUV”. So when I had the opportunity to drive a Silverado 2500 HD on my last fishing trip to [...]Read more

For wild turkey hunters, the Undertaker Choke Tube by Hunter’s Specialties is a “must-have”. It places up to 90% of the shot within a 30″ circle at 30 yards.  I compared the Undertaker pattern to that of a standard full choke in my 870 Remington Wingmaster 12 ga., and noticed a [...]Read more

The opening day of the 2011 Illinois archery deer season was off to a slow start. With warm temperatures and most of the corn still standing, the deer weren’t moving. So decided to make my own luck with some new calls by Knight & Hale. I broke out the EZ Gravity Bleat call [...]Read more

With our base camp at 10,500 feet in the Rio Grande National Forest, we needed to pack light. On an 8-day elk hunt, feeding 6 hungry dudes was no easy task. No worries. We packed some camp cookware from GSI Outdoors. I thought I would come back 10 pounds lighter, but I came home [...]Read more