The Armchair Outfitter

- by Melody in Orange Beach
Went snapper fishing on a hot Tuesday in early July. Our first attempt at fishing
on a 23′ Contender was for tarpon that have been rumored to be running
along the beach; no luck there. We did, however, witness several leatherback
turtles and some Ridley’s turtles scoping out the beaches for […]

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I recently read an article that was one of those “50 Best Places to (fill in the blank)” pieces. It named Gulf Shores, Alabama, as the best place to catch a king mackerel. That being said, until a couple of weeks ago, I’d never caught one. This one is not huge. At 24 inches to […]

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Browning Auto-5 Magnum 12
The Auto-5 was the first successful semiautomatic shotgun design. My Papaw carried a Belgian-made Browning Sweet 16, and my little Franchi AL-48 20 gauge uses the same long-recoil mechanism. Some find the “double-shuffle” of the barrel snapping forward into battery distracting, but having known nothing else during my early shotgunning […]

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