A rainy, late September Newfoundland moose hunt this year offered challenging conditions and ample opportunities to try out some new gear.

First, in the shooting category, my hunting companion Bob Ackerman and I brought two Bergara .300 Win. Mag. rifles to the camp. One...

Note: A shorter version of this article ran in my Sept. 26, 2019 outdoors column in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star newspaper.

Deer season is coming. You have friends and family who care about you. So, please, quit taking shortcuts when it comes to safety as you hunt...

Note: I held off on posting this blog about a hunt at Uruguay Lodge until the feature in Safari Club International's "Safari" magazine was published. That article ran in the July/August issue, with Ms. Anna Ackerman in the lead photo. Check out the short video covering...

The 2019 Virginia NWTF Turkey Calling championships brought a host of callers to the Virginia Outdoor Sportsman Show in Richmond this year, with participants ranging from Vermont to Florida.

An article about the show, including coverage of the calling competition and th...

  Here's a short video of a tom that came in totally silent in mid-April

VIRGINIA’S 2019 spring wild turkey harvest of 17,929 birds was up 11 percent over last year’s tally. While Bedford County again led the Commonwealth in terms of total turkeys taken with 533, North...

Note: A version of this article also appeared in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (Ken's outdoors column)

SALVISA, Ky.—The sound of hillsides thundering with mature, wild turkey toms gobbling on their roosts is part of the addictive nature of turkey hunting. It’s one...

The Board of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries dedicated its newest wildlife management area last month, naming it after its recently retired Executive Director Bob Duncan.

Duncan retired April 1 after a 41-year career with the department, the last 11...

The article about my hunt with former Army Staff Sgt. and Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha is out today in the digital edition of the National Wild Turkey Federation's Turkey Country magazine (excerpt and link below). Romesha received the Medal of Honor for his...

The barrel of my shotgun slightly rose and fell as my pulse and breathing quickened. I hadn’t yet killed three gobbler turkeys in my life and my excitement was palpable as I snugged against a tree in a mix of hollies, oaks and laurel.

I lucked into this motivated gobble...

Shotshell innovations such as Federal’s Tungsten Super Shot and Winchester’s Longbeard XR are making turkey hunters more lethal at greater distances. Finding the right shotgun load and choke tube combination to product the most reliable patterns can be increasingly com...