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February 1, 2013
by Here’s more evidence that our civilization is eroding like limestone in an acid rain: when we hear about guns and schools, we assume the worst. A mass shooting. A disturbed youth. A community in shock.
I’m here to tell you about a different sort of outcome when guns are combined with educational facilities. Students with a working knowledge of the awesome power of firearms. Young shooters with respect for the inalienable laws of gun safety. Classrooms used as venues to discuss life, death, outdoor safety, and the requirement to wear 400 square inches of hunter orange when rifle hunting here in Montana.
[ Read Full Post ]August 20, 2010
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It’s official. The federal government has been asked to ban lead ammunition.
An alliance of radical environmental groups has petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to “ban the manufacture, processing and distribution” of lead shot, bullets and fishing sinkers nationwide. You can read the petition, filed earlier this month here.
[ Read Full Post ] July 26, 2010
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In the wood-paneled basement of a stranger’s South Dakota home, I learned a little about a grandfather I scarcely knew.
And, holding his old double-hammered shotgun, I realized that when it comes to heirlooms, guns run thicker than blood or water.
I was in South Dakota last month for a family reunion of sorts. My mother, siblings and close family friends had gathered to spread the ashes of my late father on the prairie ranch where he spent his formative years. No McKeans remain in this little town, but if you look hard enough you can see signs of our presence here: a pottery crock bearing the name McKean & Company after my great-grandfather’s Depression-era general store on Main Street, an inscription to this same man on a cemetery monument recognizing local veterans, an entire chapter in the town’s centennial yearbook devoted to my homesteading family, a ranch that’s still called “The McKean Place.”
[ Read Full Post ] April 16, 2010
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It’s fundraising banquet season for conservation organizations in my corner of the world, and if you aren’t buying $20 tickets for one fundraising raffle or another, you’re just not pulling your weight for wildlife, are you?
These raffles are insidious excuses to dream a little. Most are for guns, and while I’ve never met a firearm I didn’t want, how many camo-clad Mossbergs or blah-wood .22s do I really need? I could have bought several of these guns for the multiple $20 bills I’ve plunked down over the years for raffle tickets to win one.
[ Read Full Post ] March 25, 2010
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Gayne talks with the famous and not so famous from the outdoor world. It’s 10 minutes of their life they’ll never get back.
Colorado Buck
Colorado Buck is host and producer of “Where in the World is Colorado Buck,” “Just About Land,” and “The Outfitter.”
Q. Colorado is a unique first name. What’s the worst state or states your parent’s could have named you after?
A. Massachusetts I guess. Or maybe Rhode Island.
[ Read Full Post ] February 7, 2010
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A Guest Blog By Gayne C. Young:
After my PH Eric Sorour and skinner Alfred had successfully helped me “stage” my zebra for a few shots it was time to head back to camp. With night falling and an hour long drive ahead of us it was a good idea to get loaded and get back ASAP (because even if Africa, that beer don’t drink itself). Yet once again, the zebra failed to cooperate. This time it wasn’t the weight; it was the girth.
[ Read Full Post ] January 20, 2010
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How happy are you with your riflescope?
Before you answer, think about the last couple of years. Have you been jammed up on a shot opportunity because your variable-power scope was on the highest setting? Were you not able to find a close-in deer because you only saw hair at 12x?
[ Read Full Post ] December 31, 2009
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Sure, I want to be in better shape, a more thoughtful spouse, and in better touch with old friends, but my resolutions on this New Year’s Eve shade more toward the achievable.
Because I’m a hunter, I’m interested in both the journey and the outcome. I love where I’ve been, but I’m mighty curious about where I’m going, and in 2010 I hope to be going both far and staying near.
It’s both the curse and the blessing of all hunters that we are never quite finished. There is always another region to explore, another animal to study and pursue, another skill to acquire. So, in the spirit of self-improvement, here are a few simple goals and resolutions for a new year of hunting:
[ Read Full Post ] July 20, 2009
by  mckean_blog_july20: Last week I told you about my decision to scope the new .22 rifle I gave to my twin boys.
Today I have to tell you about one of the pitfalls of the decision. Though it’s a youth-sized rifle, my 8-year-olds still have trouble finding and maintaining a consistent cheek weld, one of the most important elements of accurate shooting.
[ Read Full Post ]July 16, 2009
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For their eighth birthday earlier in the year, I gave my twin boys their first .22.
I worried that I was jumping the gun (so to speak) but they’re proficient with their air rifles and had been shooting my rimfires long and well enough that the gift of a New England Arms break-open single-shot seemed like a logical progression.
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