Author: Mike Dwyer

Like most sports, hunting has its off-season. For me this runs basically from March until September, with a brief interlude for turkey hunting in April.  My off-season follows a predictable pattern of rest, review, planning...

I know it’s bad blogging form to block quote an entire post of someone else’s but I just thought this was really insightful. Dave Petzal has been one of the gun writers for Field...

My oldest daughter starts college in a few weeks. She’s going to live on campus and she’s pretty excited. I’m happy for her but sad she’s not going to be under my roof.  Because I...

The first 10 seconds of this makes me wonder if the script writers for Batman: The Dark Knight Rises read our site. Maybe Russell has a copyright case?

Lily Raff McCaulou is part of a new generation of hunters that has come about in the last few years. These hunters are an offshoot of the locavore movement which is made up of...

From The Splendid Table’s: How to Eat Supper (dish pictured on the cover of the book). I’ll be making this to take to a cookout this weekend. Dip some good bread in the leftover sauce...

A big heat wave is supposed to hit the Southeast tomorrow. For a guy who is most happy in the winter months this is not something I am looking forward to. When I was...

In my day job I work as an analyst with a very large Fortune 500 company. The part of our business that I work for involves helping clients manage their supply chain. As part of that...

Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...

I’ve been trying something new lately. I have been taking books with me on my hunting trips. Often I have a little down time because the animals are not always active when I want them...

I stumbled across an old piece from the Drum Major Institute which discusses the problem of billions of dollars in incentives being given to companies in return for locating within a state and the small amount...

From Graeme McMillan at Spinoff: And then there are the shows that I accidentally skip out of synch with and all of a sudden, there’s a terrifying backlog of: Seven episodes of Mad Men?...

From the Rural Blog: Over half of American adults favor “legalizing and regulating marijuana similar to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are currently regulated,”

I load my rifle, put on my game bag and lock my truck 30 minutes after sunrise. After walking a few yards I bend down to hide my keys in a clump of mustard...

Recent census figures show that for the first time more than half the children born in the U.S. were minorities.

There was a quote from some political pundit a few years ago that talked about the price of being president. I am paraphrasing here but the point was basically that we, as Americans, elect...

The kids and I went to see The Avengers last night. This was the official beginning of the summer movie season for us. The movie itself was a perfect start. It was big. It...

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