With Memorial Day weekend and the busiest travel weeks of the year approaching, it’s probably a good idea to remember some very basic realities about airline travel, especially when it comes to firearms and ammunition.

A report recently released by the Pennsylvania Game Commission indicates that for the first time since the agency began documenting hunting- and trapping-related accidents in 1915, a year has passed without a single firearms-related hunting fatality in The Keystone State.

If you can find an urban deer-management program that’s more poorly designed and executed than the one in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Solon, we’ll be stunned.

Here’s a little tale about treading water at the shallow end of the gene pool.

Everyone knows the cardinal rule of spring turkey hunting is “identify your target.” This week, a feisty, central-Kentucky bobcat is on its way to the taxidermist because it failed to follow that basic hunter’s tenet.

Evidence exhibiting the sorry state of social and political affairs in our country is often reported here at the "Headline Hunter" blog. But here’s a story that has your normally callous and cynical correspondent shaking his head in disbelief.

We’ve all seen the “Obama Named Firearms Salesman of the Year” headlines, posters and parodies during the past few years at gun shops and on Second Amendment blogs, but when you really get down to serious number crunching, the figures are, well ... quite staggering.

In the past 2 weeks, the Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news-gathering organization, has stunned many old-school journalists, me included, with its interpretation of modern vernacular relating to dissimilar, yet equally controversial, subjects—firearms and illegal immigration.

Due primarily to the spike in sales of firearms and ammunition in 2012, a record total of $882 million will be distributed to states this year for fish, wildlife and recreation projects, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday, March 21.

In some parts of the country, shed antler hunting has been actively underway for a month or more already, while in the Mountain West, antler addicts are patiently waiting for the opportunity to enter winter range in search of prime elk and mule deer sheds. But if you thought you love to hunt dropped headgear during late winter and early spring, we’d like to introduce you to Jim Phillips, also known as The Antler Man.