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Ray Scott passed away on Sunday, May 8 at around 11:30 p.m. He died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes. Scott was 88 years old....

Diseases often aren’t transmitted until a tick has remained attached to a person for at least several hours, but recent research is...

In early March 2022, Virginia’s General Assembly finally closed the book on a contentious, decades-old effort to get legislative approval...

A couple of trips hunting "The Rock” – Newfoundland, Canada – provided profound experiences related to hunting clothing successes and...

By Ken Perrotte Phtooom! The ice covering Vermont’s Lake Champlain was booming earlier this month as temperatures warmed well above...

By Ken Perrotte Note: Be sure to scroll to the end for additional video and images If there was one point about which I was certain as I...

When I was a kid growing up in northern Vermont, the French-Canadian ancestry of many family and friends was on full display during the...

By Ken Perrotte Whether you are hunting wild pheasants in the beautiful upland habitat of America's heartland or availing yourself of...

The Virginia General Assembly convened last week for its 2022 session with the Republican Party again the majority in the House of...

Almost a half of a century has passed since an Alexandria, Virginia, schoolteacher named Jim Crumley began percolating an idea based on...

The Last 'Blue Law' A bill to allow Sunday hunting on public land was prefiled in the Virginia General Assembly in early December 2021 by...

Note: A shorter variation of this tale about a Thanksgiving post-dinner expedition into the woods behind the author's house was published...

Protecting your hearing is a worthy investment. Whether you’re at the range shooting or hunting, being able to simultaneously hear normal...

Enlightened bass anglers will likely enjoy a new book by Joe Kinnison titled “Next-Level Bass Fishing.” Printed by Skyhorse Publishing,...

When three shooters can pick up a previously unfamiliar firearm and, except for minimal diopter tweaks to focus eyes to the scope’s...

While traveling to Newfoundland for an early October hunting expedition, I was fortunate to be able to make an overnight stop in Nova...

Note: This article appeared in Whitetails Unlimited with a shorter version also in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. Virginia teenager...

Daybreak fog over northern Michigan’s Manistee River was thick as Tim Riley quietly dipped his oars to maneuver our drift boat closer to...

This (2021) is the first year that Virginia hunters will be unable to bring an animal they took to an authorized station to register the...

Note: The article originally appeared in the March/April 2020 edition of Virginia Wildlife. Here is it, slightly expanded -- with many...

No matter what type of hunting adventure I go one, eating the local foods and, especially, any wild fish or game taken, is always high on...

This article appeared in the Aug. 19, 2021 Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star newspaper. In many respects, the setting for the 4-H Shooting...

Note: This article originally appeared in The Hunting Wire, a great publication and news delivery service. We were minutes from calling...

Few things cause more intense, persistent discomfort than coping with chiggers, those miniscule mites that attach to your skin and bite,...

Go Colton! Way to ride that bull. From several years ago... Check out a slightly older Colton in our "Cooking with Colton" series - found...

A 32-year-old woman from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., was just certified as the new International Underwater Spearfishing Association (IUSA)...

Hunting African buffalo has been on list for more than four decades, ever since the author read tales by Roosevelt, Hemingway, Ruark and...

Anglers, crabbers, swimmers, oyster lovers, and just about anyone in the Chesapeake Bay region with cuts or nicks on their skin, or ...

A soft lure won Best of Show honors at last week’s ICAST (International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades) show in Orlando,...

Jim Mize, an award-winning South Carolina author who tends to come off as the reserved, quiet type, has a funny bone the size of a...