If you don’t know where you are, you are lost, writes V. Paul Reynolds. Admit it. Sit down. Think, Observe and Plan. 

In most cases, the bottom line at Christmas time is this: sportsmen and women can be tough to shop for because if they needed it, they more than likely already went out and bought it.

At the end of the day, the essence of hunting ethics is how the hunter feels about himself when he leaves the deer woods, all of which makes the running shot question a deeply personal choice, writes V. Paul Reynolds

Hunting rights aside, this Constitutional right to raise and gather our own food may be timely, given fast-rising inflation and supply chain issues, writes V. Paul Reynolds.

The city slickers from Madison Ave, many of whom have never driven “off road” in their lives, dream up television commercials for folks who want a tough truck for the back roads, writes V. Paul Reynolds

V. Paul Reynolds was on bear-guard duty while on a hunting trip in Colorado, where grizzly bears are supposedly extinct from the state.

How do you behave when a fellow hunter bags the big one and you come home empty-handed? How you respond to failure in the field, as well as success, defines you as a sportsman, writes V. Paul Reynolds.

In this era of intense social scrutiny of hunters and anti-hunting activism, impressions count, V. Paul Reynolds writes. As far as he is concerned, a drone has no place in the deer woods.

Too many Maine deer hunters are keeping their doe permits as an ace in the hole and holding out late into the season for that trophy buck. Fall after fall, not enough does are taken in Maine’s deer-rich areas.

A long-ago Rangeley resident once beat one of the most famous shooters in history in a target contest.