Hunting with Bill Miller

I’d tell you that the reliable ol’ Versus weekly Rut Report is back just like it has always been, but that wouldn’t be truthful. It is back, but it’s different—in some ways new and improved.

I just added ScoutLook to my Android smartphone’s app lineup, and I’m betting it will quickly become the most used feature on it

Here in the North Country it’s feast or famine when it comes to hunting and related activities. As we move into the second half of September and then October, it’s definitely a feast … or as it’s called in this part of the world a “smorgasbord.”

This is the time of year kids go off to college. All too often that means leaving hunting and shooting opportunities behind. Though it was a while ago, I remember packing my parents' station wagon with everything we figured I’d need for my first year at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. The la...

Don’t let that friendly smile on my face fool you! At the moment this picture was snapped I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to sneak out of the Mossy Oak BioLogic booth in that Gamekeeper’s edition HuntVe without anyone noticing. I need one of those on my hunting property! Unfortunatel...

 … continued from “More” In the moment before total darkness, I watched Gunther and the boys rig up a battery exactly like the Die Hard in my car with a Q-beam exactly like the one from my boat—why, it even had the initials WWM painted in yellow on the handle just like mine. Gunther told me t...

 … continued from “The Middle”   Before he headed to the Range Rover with another third of my hand tools, Gunther gave me a list of things to prepare in the next day and a half. He said he wasn’t “taking no wussy” on a hunt like this. If I didn’t have everything up to snuff when he showe...

 … continued from “The Beginning”…   Young Gunther always wears camouflage. His red, wavy hair is topped with a camouflage beret canted to the left, giving him somewhat of a South African, or at least a British look. Slung across his back as he cruises the bike paths and backyards is a r...

The way we consume outdoor media has changed, whether you’re thinking about TV, books, magazines, radio, Internet or anything else. Yet the saying, “What’s old is new again,” also comes to mind. We’re told over and over again that media consumers' attention spans have diminished, especially on th...

Just yesterday morning I was out taping in my backyard with a couple of the “North American Hunter-TV” producers. We like to be “done” with most of our taping come the heat and heart of the summer here in Minnesota, but Can-Am just became a sponsor of our show, so we needed to get some running foota...