Game & Fish West

AROUND THE WEST

I won’t call you cheap, but if you’re anything like me, you set your jaw to the rising price of gas and diesel. You count your cartridges and your shotshells like you’re keeping tabs on poker chips. But you deflect criticism from the people in your life about continuing to hunt given the recent financial headwinds.

The thing is, you hunt and fish because it’s what drives you. And because this month is all about

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