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By Dan Wrinn

Clayton & Molly Wrinn

I consider myself a pretty hard core hunter.  If you look inside one of my three freezers, as well as the freezer in my office, they are overwhelmingly full of things I’ve harvested.  Ground venison outweighs ground beef, and ducks and geese outnumber chicken nuggets by at least ten times.  As far as fish, well, I can’t really remember the last time I actually went to a store and bought fish.  I can honestly say that me and my wife and two kids eat more wild game than store bought food.  No doubt. 

And now that my kids are getting older, I’ve started thinking about what I hope will be a long, personal relationship with their natural world that they will develop with the mentoring of me, my wife and my inner circle of hunting and fishing buddies...

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

– Aristotle

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell met with five young outdoor enthusiasts last week to discuss America’s public lands and outdoor heritage.

The five were selected from across the nation as winners of the Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development’s essay contest on “The Importance of Public Lands to Me”. The winners were Jarred Kay, 17, Flagstaff, Ariz.; Haley Powell, 17, Rock Springs, Wyo.; Matthew Reilly, 18, Palmyra, Va.; Rebecca Brown, 17, Conrad, Mont.; and Noah Davis, 18, Greensburg, Pa.

Haley, the winner from Wyoming, opened her essay “Public Lands and Me” with the above Aristotle quote. She is the youth membership chairwoman for Trout Unlimited in Wyoming and says people care about our nation’...

A River Runs Through It
The story of two brothers and their shared love for fly fishing on the Blackfoot River in Montana. 

Brave
An independent princess defies custom and relies on her bravery and archery skills to undo a curse. 

Dancing with Wolves
A Lieutenant is exiled to the West and befriends a Native American tribe while also learning to hunt with a traditional bow and arrow.

Fried Green Tomatoes
The story of four unrelated women who find strength in each other and one who finds comfort in the outdoors.

Last of the Dogmen
A Montana bounty hunter is sent to collect prisoners but instead find a Native American Tribe thought to no longer exist.

The Hunger Games 1 & 2
A teen girl competes in a televised fight to the death and survives due to her strong archery and survival skills. 

My First Bird, Leslie Dunne Ketner

Leslie Ketner

The first time I ever shot a bird it was a dove.

I was on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the early ’90s. It was opening day, and I sat excitedly on a bucket in a field of sunflowers.  My husband and our yellow lab, Berkeley, were in another row of sunflowers. 

As the birds started flying, I looked around to track my fellow hunters, showing caution on my first attempt to shoot something other than an orange clay. All of a sudden a dove was flying a nice left to right pattern.  It was pretty far off, but I mounted my side-by-side 12 gauge and  boom, it dropped in another row of  dried flowers.  Being new to this, I wasn’t sure of the protocol on when to pick up my bird...

Trent Ellingsen | StockVault

Female hunters are on the rise – and they’re appearing more and more on TV and in the news. Instead of men with beards, we’re seeing images of blondes in pearls with a shotgun (think Debutante Hunters).

A recent article on Salon, Nothing like “Duck Dynasty”: My life as a female hunter, points out that hunting isn’t as glamorous as hot girls with guns. Its author is a Korean-American professor who says she is neither hot, nor blonde, contrasting herself to one of the authors on our Sportswoman’s Reading List from this week (can you guess who by the covers?)

Paula Young Lee, the article author, says people are usually surprised – sometimes appalled – that she hunts. Here are two excerpts:

City people are frequently surprised to learn that “hunti...