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Field notes for people who actually hunt and fish
We publish gear guides, field skills, and season breakdowns — trail camera strategy, knife sharpening, elk pack-out math, teal migration biology, and the honest gear picks behind them. A couple of emails a week. No spam, no endless discount blasts, unsubscribe any time.
We will also tell you plainly when we do not stock something, or when we have not tested a piece of gear ourselves. There is more of that in our writing than you might expect, and it is deliberate. A recommendation is worth something only if we are willing to say when we do not have one.
Start with the season planner
The quickest way onto the list is the thing most people want first: the 2026-27 season planner. Seven pages, all fifty states — an archery opener, a firearms opener and a dove opener for each one, laid out so you can see where the dates collide before you book anything nonrefundable.
Tell us your state and we will send it now, then email you about three weeks before your seasons open.
What we write about
If you would rather see the writing before handing over an address, that is fair. Start with the Texas season-by-season layering guide — it argues that hunting Texas is a shedding problem rather than an insulating one, which is close to the opposite of what most national clothing advice assumes. Or the Texas deer season breakdown for dates, zones and regulations in one place.
Then browse the Field Journal and How-To & Skills to see what actually lands in your inbox.
About the 10% welcome code
New subscribers to the main list receive a 10% code in their first email. It is worth being straight about where it works, because a discount that dies at checkout is worse than no discount at all.
It applies to apparel, packs, knives, fishing and camp gear — more than twelve hundred items, the Vycah range included.
It does not apply to Trijicon, Sig Sauer, Vertx, Eberlestock or GameGuard. We sell those within a few percent of cost. We carry them because you want them, not because there is money in them, and we would rather keep stocking them than raise the price to fund a discount.
The code arrives with the welcome email when you join the main list — the signup at the bottom of any page on the site puts you there. The season planner above is a separate list for season-date reminders, so grab both if you want both.