While most politicians and bureaucrats seem stymied by the problem of school shootings, some states and school administrators have already figured out the answer. When I teach my students at concealed carry classes in New London (I’ve taught about 1,000 students over the past decade), I ask them if they know the average time, start to finish, of a mass shooting. It’s six minutes. What is the average law enforcement response to that shooting? It’s

As we grow older, we learn to work smarter and play slower. Relaxation becomes an activity on its own. Spring means turkey hunting, and that can be hard work. Getting up at 4 a.m. for a few days is a major chore, and by noon (or much sooner), I’m ready for a nap.

I once took a birding class when I was an English major at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. On the first day, my jaw sank when the professor explained that this class would not be a field course as I had hoped. Instead, we would study the skins of dead birds for a semester. You’ll never see a Cassin’s auklet or an Antarctic petrel in Shawano County, but I held their preserved skins in my hand.

Terry Dorschner isn’t exactly sure how many turkeys he’s shot over the years, but he hasn’t shot any since 2015. It’s not that his luck has run out. Quite the contrary. He just gets more fun out of helping others bag a big tom. He’s shot plenty of big gobblers, including one that weighed 30 pounds.

I sat on the comfy padded seat of the UBCO Adventure 2x2 electric motorcycle and listened to Valley Snowmobile and Powersports owner Lon Tesch explain how to ride it. Once a button on the handlebar is pushed, it’s “in gear,” even though it doesn’t have gears.

Have you been shooting your bow or crossbow yet? July slipped away amid a series of rock concerts and a major windstorm. Like Dorothy, I awoke from my dream and discovered I had landed at home, although it was now August. The archery opener is now about six weeks away. I’m a sucker for outdoors magazines, and when picking up a few groceries at Festival Foods, I had to stop at the magazine stand.