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The Art of Designing a Trophy Room – Easy Tips for your Taxidermy
Outdoorsmen and women often bring the outdoors world inside by preserving their trophies through taxidermy. It’s a great way to turn a living room, den, man cave or a dedicated room into the place to keep and admire trophies. But it’s not just a place to hang dead [...]Read more
Featured Recipe Crusted Venison Loin
This might be my new favorite way to prepare my deer loins. Super simple, and the combination of spices is endless. We are simply placing a dry rub — a combination of various seasonings and spices — on a venison loin, then cooking it at a very high heat for a short period of [...]Read more
Featured Product – Endurance LER Slug Gun Scope by Hawke Optics
When I was looking for a great piece of glass to put on my son’s new Savage 20 gauge bolt action slug gun, I once again turned to my friends at Hawke Optics. I have their scopes on several of my other slug guns and they’ve been nothing short of exceptional when it comes to […]Read more
A Great Hunt Requires Great Footwear – How to Find the Best Boot for Hunting
There’s no question, one of the most important pieces of outdoor gear is good footwear. If you hunt, climb, hike or participate in any outdoor activity that involves moving and walking, then footwear is paramount. What you have on your feet will have a huge impact upon your [...]Read more
Know the Hunting and Fishing Regulations or Pay the Price – Illinois Game Laws
On the opening morning of the 2012 Illinois firearm deer season, two hunters in camp didn’t have any blaze orange. They claimed they didn’t know you needed to wear orange during shotgun season. Fortunately for them, I had a couple extra vests in my gear bag, which saved [...]Read more
Where the Buffalo Roam – Midewin Tallgrass Prairie Introduces Bison Herd
For over ten years, I‘ve enjoyed my commute from Wilmington going north on Route 53, often wondering how cool it would be to see a herd of bison standing on the pre-dawn, rolling hills of the thousands of acres at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie as the sun breaks the horizon. [...]Read more
Family Fishing and Fun in Biloxi Mississippi
When I was looking for a family destination that included fishing and fun, we threw a dart and hit a bullseye with Biloxi, Mississippi. I don’t know what I love better — catching fish or eating them. Fortunately, Biloxi offered us an incredible variety of both. As we were [...]Read more
Garlic Walleye “Turbo” Cheeks
This is an appetizer that is incredibly easy to make, but won’t last very long. You need about a half a pound of walleye cheeks — the little medallion of meat located right under the fishes eye, otherwise known as the “cheek”. While on a recent trip to fish with [...]Read more
Dunlap’s Does it Right – A Quality Lake Erie Charter Fishing Trip
It’s been twenty years since I fished Lake Erie. After spending a couple of days with my sons on the water with Dunlap’s Fishing Charters, I’m proud to say that this time was the complete opposite of my previous experience. I try to focus on the positive in [...]Read more
3 Great (and Cheap) Summer Adventures for Kids
Looking for some great, cost-effective outdoor activities this summer? Here are a few good ones… Geode Hunting in Western Illinois Imagine wading through a spring-fed steam, and finding a baseball-sized rock in the clear water. You crack it open to find it filled with [...]Read more
