Lew Freedman

Winter is alive in my back yard. The snow is a foot deep and glistens in the mid-afternoon sunlight the way the sun creates diamonds on lake surfaces in summer....

The colorful birds clenched in Don McKinney's hand breathed their last barely a half-hour into pheasant hunting season. On a cool, clear November morning at Des Plaines State Fish and...

He can't run, but they couldn't hide. Randy Lewis' motorized wheelchair took him to one of the dozen disabled deer-hunting blinds at Jubilee College State Park, and it took him...

Wanda Romkema steadied her borrowed Winchester and gently squeezed the trigger. Bang! Looking through a pair of binoculars at a paper turkey target 30 yards away, instructor P.J. Perea proclaimed,...

Judging from Kevin Howard's commitment to cleanliness, he might have taken two showers and maybe thrown in a bath that morning too. A bigger devotee to looking freshly scrubbed never...

The membership of the National Rifle Association is 4 million and it is rare to hear a hunter or competitive shooter make strong statements against the organization. That's because the...

Gigantic moose racks rested on a table in front of Carl Spaeth. They were a good conversation starter for passersby at a Bass Pro Shop exposition in Gurnee dreaming of...

Men walked the aisles examining the goods they needed to attract fur. It was all here: new traps, new lures, new oils. They exchanged goods and good wishes. "Beaver's gonna...

Unless you were a duck, or a person who studied the environment, you probably were not aware the Gulf Coast of Louisiana was eroding at an alarming rate even before...

For years, as he hunted everything from rabbits and squirrels to deer, Tony Doucet thought about how cool it would be to be able to hunt for a living. Imagine,...