Hunting

Straight Shootin': The firepower at the NRA convention is incredible, just like the rhetoric

Jeff Foiles was a rock star in the world of waterfowl hunting -- until the feds drew a target on his back

Urban Hunters Bag 570 Deer in Missouri

She's all yours. Just do NOT shoot the minivan.​Last weekend was urban deer season in Missouri, allowing hunters to harvest antler-less deers in and around St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia/Jefferson City. In total, hunters in those regions killed 570 deer. In the St. Louis area, hu ... More >>

Turkey Hunting: Apparently Way Harder Than It Sounds

image viaSo easy, a kid could do it?​Either turkeys have gotten extra-sneaky, or Missouri hunters are extra-sucky this year.Though the Missouri Department of Conservation estimates the state's wild turkey population to be around 500,000, only 5,928 turkeys were killed this fall hunting season, the ... More >>

These Bumper Stickers Do Not Quack Me Up

Let me preface this post by saying, emphatically, I have nothing against duck hunting or duck hunters. I don't hunt because a) I grew up in the suburbs and for a long time believed I had the God-given right to air-conditioning and shrink-wrapped meat, b) I look bad in camouflage and -- mainly -- c) ... More >>

Them Dogs Do Hunt: Savvy Hillbillies Charged with Illegally Hunting Deer with Canines

​A posse from the Ozark region of southern Missouri has been charged with violating the federal Lacey Act for hunting deer with dogs in the Mark Twain National Forest. According to federal prosecutors, the group released dogs wearing radio-location transmitters and then tracked the location of th ... More >>

And You Thought Town & Country Had A Deer Problem

Image Via​It seems like just yesterday that a ten-point buck sauntered into a Home Depot in Town & Country and began to wreak havoc. You'll recall in that incident how a renegade Bambi tried to fight an ornamental deer statue, broke off an antler in the process, and then headed into the hardwa ... More >>

Gobble Gobble Hey!

flickr.com/photos/mychatham​With Thanksgiving rapidly bearing down on us, surer than death and taxes, it came as alarming news yesterday when the Missouri Department of Conservation announced that this year's fall turkey-hunting season was the second-worst on record.Hunters only managed to bag 8,3 ... More >>

Weird Animal Abundance in Missouri

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hvargas/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Mother Nature has been oddly generous to Missouri outdoorsmen this year, and here's one more example.  First we had that huge bumpercrop of paddlefish. Then our state's fishermen started breaking way more records than usual. Now the Missouri D ... More >>

St. Clair County Brings Out the Big Guns In Lawsuit Against Local Shooting Range ... Because Its Members Might Shoot Down a Fighter Jet?

thedonovan.comThe Belleville News-Democrat published a curious story this morning about St. Clair County's four year-long legal battle with a gun club in Caseyville. Since June 2001, the county has spent almost $200,000 in legal fees attempting to shutter a shooting range near Scott Air Force B ... More >>

Animal cruelty, Guantanamo and dirty stares at coffee shops have RFT readers all wound up.

thedonovan.comThe Belleville News-Democrat published a curious story this morning about St. Clair County's four year-long legal battle with a gun club in Caseyville. Since June 2001, the county has spent almost $200,000 in legal fees attempting to shutter a shooting range near Scott Air Force B ... More >>

Hare Today...

thedonovan.comThe Belleville News-Democrat published a curious story this morning about St. Clair County's four year-long legal battle with a gun club in Caseyville. Since June 2001, the county has spent almost $200,000 in legal fees attempting to shutter a shooting range near Scott Air Force B ... More >>

Air guns legalized this deer season

thedonovan.comThe Belleville News-Democrat published a curious story this morning about St. Clair County's four year-long legal battle with a gun club in Caseyville. Since June 2001, the county has spent almost $200,000 in legal fees attempting to shutter a shooting range near Scott Air Force B ... More >>

Press Release of the Day - The Southern Gentleman's Edition

thedonovan.comThe Belleville News-Democrat published a curious story this morning about St. Clair County's four year-long legal battle with a gun club in Caseyville. Since June 2001, the county has spent almost $200,000 in legal fees attempting to shutter a shooting range near Scott Air Force B ... More >>

Happy Hunting, Mr. Vice Pezident

thedonovan.comThe Belleville News-Democrat published a curious story this morning about St. Clair County's four year-long legal battle with a gun club in Caseyville. Since June 2001, the county has spent almost $200,000 in legal fees attempting to shutter a shooting range near Scott Air Force B ... More >>

Odd Ducks

The fight to preserve St. Charles County floodplains makes for some strange bedfellows

Firepower

Those who follow the way of the gun have their many reasons. Just ask them.

All Work and No Pray

A Muslim worker at the Ford plant faces a difficult choice

Going Ape

Suzy the Chimp is dead, her teenage killer faces charges and there's bad blood all around

The Buck Stops Here

Modern-day Daniel Boones are a deer's best friend -- and its worst nightmare

The Shootists

The city of St. Louis' only public gun range draws firearms enthusiasts, the self-defense-minded and those for whom being a good shot is just part of a day's work