By Scott Bestul

Last weekend—seated comfortably in an Alabama box blind overlooking a food plot on a sunny, pleasant afternoon—I couldn’t resist text-messaging a buddy back in the Midwest.

“How is the weather back in paradise?” I queried, feigning innocence.

“Stupidly cold. How ‘bout you?” was Ted’s too-good-to-pass response.

By Dave Hurteau

From The Capital Times:

The state Natural Resources Board voted unanimously Wednesday to ask the Wisconsin Legislature to approve a statewide ban on baiting and feeding of deer.

By Philip Bourjaily

By David E. Petzal

Whilst taking in the splendor of the SCI Convention, I was treated to three insightful quotes. Here they are.

“You know what the trouble with some of these gun companies is? They’re run by yuppies who don’t know anything about guns. They’ve all got MBAs and they draw up a business plan and when it doesn’t work they still stick with it because it’s The Plan and they don’t know enough to do anything else.”—S.C., a grim and grizzled gun writer.*