Danny Rinella’s High Country Moose Hunting

Words by Danny Rinella Set up camp near a hill or knob that gives you good visibility over a huge area and plan to spend a lot of time up there glassing.  In the alpine country, it’s not unusual to spot moose several miles away.  Needless to say, good ‘nocs and spotting scope are a must. If you’re in an area with other hunters, set your camp at least a couple miles away.  Alpine moose hunting takes place over huge areas, if you don’t give other...

A Brief History of Flintlock Hunting in America

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and…flintlock rifles? It’s hard to deny the ironic status of the flintlock rifle in American culture. Many Europeans came to the New World chasing the promise of inexhaustible game, and even though that promise proved less-than-realistic, their efforts cemented the flintlock as a permanent feature of American life. Daniel Boone, for example, used “Old Tick Licker” around Kentucky and the Cumberland Gap. Natty Bumppo...

America's Strange History of Rifle Hunting for Pike

Vermont is the only state in the Union where you can legally use guns to hunt fish. No, we’re not talking about mounting a deer rifle atop your skiff and firing miniature harpoons like a deck cannon on a whaling boat. That’s a bit much for northern pike, the primary prey of armed anglers who hunt Lake Champlain’s 120-mile shoreline and backwaters in western Vermont each spring after ice-out. Vermont lets hunters use firearms to shoot pike...