Finishing an endurance event like the Sunbelt Bakery Ironman 70.3 North American Championship in Chattanooga has a special meaning for everyone from the top finishers to the final athletes to cross the finish line. The accomplishment means something different to each person.
by Jim Tanner / CorrespondentBesides an innate suspicion of everything, which helps them survive, mountain turkeys have an ally that protects them: the sometimes horrendous topography in which they live.
by Larry CaseThe magic hour is about to happen. Turkey hunters already know this, but the magic hour is that wonderful time just as the world wakes up for another day.
by Larry CaseIt has been a while, but we have talked about this before: Falling down is often a big part of the life of a hunter, fisherman or outdoorsman.
by Larry CaseIf you have never experienced Route 60 on Gauley Mountain in West Virginia at 4 in the morning during a rainstorm, you may (or may not) want to give it a try.
by Larry CaseI wish someone would have told me all of this back then. But would I have listened?
by Larry CaseThe scene was all too familiar. A beautiful piece of woods, a bright spring morning, the songbirds in full chorus.
by Larry CaseNot long after I started terrorizing the local woodland population of birds and mammals with a BB and pellet gun, my dad gave me "the speech."
by Larry CaseThe past couple of years have been a wild ride for most of us, including any of you in the shooting and hunting world.
by Larry CaseI got up at 3:30 am the other day. In case you don't know, this is a dismal, evil hour of the night. It is very quiet, to the point of being ominous, with wraiths and werewolves skulking about.
by Larry CaseMy third cup of coffee did not seem near as good as the first. I looked into the murky depths of the mug and hoped for some help there. You know, the clouds in my coffee thing?
by Larry CaseGun writers, I have been told, are supposed to be stern, hardhearted and insensitive.
by Larry CaseI could not deny it felt like coming home. When the car turned down the lane to the Southern Sportsman Hunting Lodge, I knew I would see old friends.
by Larry CaseEliot Berz remembers once watching a bobcat stalk two turkeys along a dry creek bed in Marion County.
by Sunny MontgomerySome things are just hard to talk about. They simply are. It's no different when it comes to hunting, fishing and other pursuits outdoors.
by Larry CaseAs I have shared with you here many times before, I don't really think of myself as older, at least not yet.
by Larry CaseThe whitetail deer is the most important animal in the woods. There, I said it.
by Larry CaseI have been to Alaska one time, and I want to go back.
by Larry CaseI did a pretty cool and unusual thing this morning. I applied for a license to take an elk this fall. In Virginia.
by Larry CaseWould you agree that most hunters think of themselves as rugged and self-reliant?
by Larry CaseHere's the deal, my brothers and sisters in camo: We all like shooting, and we all want to be better at it, right?
by Larry CaseRight about now, some of my brothers and sisters in camo are feeling a little let down and discouraged.
by Larry CaseWell, I don't how we got here, but another new year is upon us.
by Larry Case