Is the 30/30 Still Relevant? Hunting season is just around the corner; you can feel it! The air is crisp and cool, the leaves have begun to turn all manner of colors, and that natural drive to be in the woods has begun. On my way to work this morning I couldn’t help but feel that annual evo...

Getting Ready for the Tracking Season – The Marlin TSBL Trapper As many of you know, I have been working with the new Marlin TSBL Trapper in 45/70 as my new go-to 2018 tracking rifle. I was impressed by the design of this model because of its compact size, the power and versatility of the 4...

As spring turns to summer, things get hectic. It is easy to let projects slip away when they don’t demand immediate attention. This is definitely true regarding fitness. On any one day, you can miss a training session because you’re busy, or tired, or distracted. Then, before you realize...

The good Lord decided he wanted to bless me with an early season buck this past year. This gift was a real encouragement to me in many ways, producing the buck and story of a lifetime. Though I’m extremely thankful and blessed with this honor there was only one problem; I was done hunting big ...

I’m a cross-dominant rifle shooter, meaning I’m a right-handed shooter and I’m left eye dominant. Not a good combination for shooting at bucks on the run (as when you see one jumping from its bed after a long day on the track) or working a shotgun at the skeet range, in the upland ...

People who have followed my posts on BWB for the last few years know that shed hunting is part of my spring business at Schanz's Guide Service. Shed hunting for us means going north and looking for moose antlers. This year got off to a slow start because of the late winter, and we had turkey hun...

For the last several months, I have made a post on the 30th and called it "Throwback 30". These stories have been from my distant past (I just turned 52), to stories about my grandparents a hundred years ago. This post is from the recent past, but it bears telling because it'...

It was the fall of 2017. The snow was crunchy; the sun bright, shining on the bitter cold mountainside. I’d just kicked 4 doe off a small open hummock to my right, and I got that old familiar feeling of more deer in my presence, I just couldn’t see them yet. I slowed to a metered cautiou...

At 3:00 AM, I get in my truck and head to Jackman for opening day of the 2016 Maine deer season. In the night, a front came through the state that was rain over most of the state except for higher elevations in northern and western Maine. Hal needed a cameraman for the day and I had volunteered to d...

As many of us are, I am an extremely busy person and 2017 was no exception. I worked every second I could, trying my best to run two businesses, while building a house and on top of that, the lord has also blessed my wife and I with our first child on the way. I am very thankful and humbled for God ...