Whether to use technology is not a debate of absolutes. Polarized, one side would showcase Chris McCandless, the naive young man who ventured into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land and died four months later from starvation and poisoning – by eating the wrong seeds at the wrong time.
The Connecticut River Valley has been home to several easily recognizable firearms companies such as Winchester, Parker, Colt, and Marlin. It’s also a stone’s throw from Tony Galazan’s Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company.
For a variety of reasons, hunting has consistently declined in popularity since the mid-1980’s. In an effort to counter that trend the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA), the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the National Wild Federation launched the Families Afield Program in 2004 with a goal of making hunting more accessible to younger hunters.
Located in North Carolina’s Sandhills region, The Webb Farm provides a traditional quail hunting experience for wild and “Surrogated” birds.
While Ruffed grouse hunting in New York State opens on Oct. 1, resourceful hunters can get a jump on the season in the northern tier, particularly at Jerry Bottcher’s Hungry Trout Resort.