Dear Writing Huntress, This is my first year turkey hunting. I will be going out in the woods with my boyfriend, who has been hunting for years. He told me I should “prepare for anything,” but didn’t really explain what that meant. We live in Nebraska and it’s spring. Is my warm weather gear enough? […]

Since 1956, “Dear Abby” has been a staple of the American female advice diet. Dispensing ways to deal with a difficult husband, how to bag the perfect boyfriend and when to clean the oven have been Abby’s bread and butter, even after her death. The column originally, and continually, described as “uncommon common sense and […]

I have had the opportunity to travel west to hunt different big game animals a few times. One time, I traveled to Montana to chase pronghorn and I did not fill my tag. So, antelope stayed on my list of big game animals I wanted to hunt successfully. This past August, I loaded up my […]

I have never participated in any “veterans’ events,” even though I served 11 years of combined service in the US Army and US Army Reserves. I served from 1992-2003, and I would consider my time of service to be pretty peaceful. I’m a veteran who was willing to and volunteered for temporary duty assignments to […]

Over the past several years, southern Illinois, specifically the small town of Pinckneyville, in Perry County, has become one of my favorite places to enjoy the outdoors. This area is an outdoor person’s dreamland with its big whitetail deer and long-beard turkeys.  There’s also wonderful waterfowl hunting and great fishing in the area lakes and […]

Should a mother be concerned when her prepubescent teen son starts wearing her clothing? This thought crossed my mind a couple of weeks ago when my son called me on the phone, happily informing me that he was wearing my clothing and he liked it. I anticipated this would someday be a problem with my […]

Photos tell a lot about the story, but we’re sure that Norissa Harman and Jen Adams, of Girls with Guns Clothing, will have behind-the-scenes news to flesh out the story of their recent hunt in New Zealand. In the meantime,and until we can catch up with these two friends — who happen to own a […]