By Chuck Smick Tom Beaudette, from Model, Colo., is the owner of High Country Control. He is an animal damage control (ADC) trapper and fur trapper with over 41 years in the ADC and fur trapping business. I’ve had several conversations with Tom over the last several months, and our schedules finally allowed us to…
By Chuck Smick Tom Beaudette, from Model, Colo., is the owner of High Country Control. He is an animal damage control (ADC) trapper and fur trapper with over 41 years in the ADC and fur trapping business. I’ve had several conversations with Tom over the last several months, and our schedules finally allowed us to…
Chris works with a student to help him improve his shooting skills. By Chuck Smick The two thugs approached me from the vehicle with Illinois plates that was parked at the gas pump ahead of our car; where my wife and I were parked at a gas station near our home in Paducah, Ken., to…
Regular training is critical if you plan to carry a defensive handgun for protection, or if you keep a defensive handgun (or other gun) in your home for protection. Training takes time, effort, planning, preparation — and dollars, too — for the training to be effective. Firearms training is important, even if you only shoot…
The trapper was lying in the hospital with two broken legs and a fractured spine. His trapping partner found him at the base of a deep ravine near where he ran his trapline. His wife called his partner when he failed to come home after dark. He had slipped on a slick trail along the…
Smick makes a coyote set close to the kill. Two flat sets were made near the kill using deer bones for a backing. A third flat set was placed about 60 feet from the kill scene, on the travelway, with fresh coyote droppings. The big buck had made it through another deer season, eluding hunters…
By Chuck Smick These are the last words a hunter wants to hear when he is in the field on a hunting trip, and the last thing a hunter wants to experience on an otherwise successful hunt. A jammed gun, or more appropriately a gun malfunction, can be the result of many different factors. Bad…
The bowhunter approached his truck after dark, which was parked in the parking area on the public land that he was hunting. As he approached the truck, he observed two individuals attempting to break into the vehicle. He yelled for them to stop. As he got closer, the pair pulled out weapons — a knife…
