Barbara Baird interviews professional angler, Pam Martin-Wells, about the Lady Bass Anglers Association and the business of bass.

Athena Means, proprietor of Gun Goddess, wants women to wear products from her carefully chosen lineup to ranges while they are either learning to shoot or honing their firearms’ skills. To that end, she created an interactive webpage that features a map of locations where women-only firearms training is taught in this country. Just click on […]

Once again, I scratch. I itch. My arms and legs and other places not worth mentioning display welts and scratches and bites and sores. Yes, I’ve been turkey hunting again. It happens every year. I get all revved up to get out there and after, oh say, 11 straight days of sitting in briars, taking […]

At one point in my newfound hunting life, I needed to go to boot camp. No, not the Army type, but a place where I could have enlisted the help of trained boot-fitting specialists to teach me the ways of outfitting my feet for hiking and hunting in the Ozarks. In fact, I just had […]

We caught her between airports. Natalie Foster, publisher of one of the most popular girl-gun blogs in the world, Girls Guide to Guns, and recently named a news commentator at NRA News, answered a few questions pertaining to her wild and wonderful lifestyle. Hailing from the Los Angeles area, Natalie brings exactly the breath of […]

All right, Ladies. You probably all know who I am … beings as I just appeared in this publication last week and a Lenny lookalike, aka another Little Runt, was gifted to one lucky reader of The Women’s Outdoor News in the contest to name me. Frankly, if truth be told, I always felt like […]

I ordered a Smith & Wesson Model 642 Airweight and received it about six months ago. The snub-nosed revolver, aka snubby, travels with me almost daily now. I crossed over the line a few years ago, from trying to decide ahead of time whether I’d need a concealed carry gun to the point of always carrying one when legal. It just became too much of a time waster to try to imagine why and where I’d need it. Better to, as 5.11 Tactical says, “Always be ready.”

It’s always tricky to choose the accompanying jewelry for a business shot. Babbs chooses a Gun Goddess bullet casing necklace in .45 caliber.

If you have read The WON for the past year, you might recognize the name Tom McHale, proprietor and publisher of the gun blog titled “My Gun Culture.” We like to banter with Tom about holsters, power washers and turkey decoys. He is a huge supporter of women in the shooting sports and if we […]

It all started about two weeks before the official spring turkey season commenced here in Missouri last year. I had been out scouting and came back with multiple chigger bites on my ankles and lower legs. Although I sprayed Permethrin on my boots and jeans, the lil’ critters still climbed aboard my legs and chewed […]

We lay side by side in the dirt in a farmer’s field. Some lay on state-of-the-art shooting mats while others made do with an old quilt from home folded in half. Some shot .22s while others shot AR-15s. A seven-year-old girl and her dad occupied one end of the line, and a 65-year-old grandpa hunkered […]

When Rolling Stone magazine lectures gun owners on the evils of firearms in society, it’s laughable. In an article titled “The Gun Industry’s Deadly Addiction,” published by the magazine in its March 14 issue, Tim Dickinson wields a dull machete through a field of misstatements about gun owners and how we yield, scrape and bow […]

The National Wild Turkey Federation celebrated its 40th anniversary last weekend in Nashville, Tenn. I was at the convention to witness thousands of turkey enthusiasts jamming the exhibit rooms of Opryland and to hear hundreds of turkey callers, duck callers and goose callers competing for air space in the hall. My ears hurt a little […]

We have featured hundreds of Becoming an Outdoors-Woman events here at The WON, and we see that these workshops fill up fast. For most women, once they’ve experienced a new tradition or sport in the outdoors, they want to learn more. They want to practice and improve upon their newly found skill. In Texas, the […]

It’s still a bit of whirlwind when we think back on our week in Las Vegas at the Shooting Hunting Outdoor Trade Show. Britney Starr and I ran ourselves ragged in our efforts to find products for women. We compiled a list of a some of our favorites. There will be more throughout the year, as we actually test the products in the field and at the range.

When a five-year-old girl in Pennsylvania told her friends that she would shoot them with a Hello Kitty bubble gun, and wound up being suspended for it, well, it begs the question … If this is how our school administrators handle problems, then God help us, what will they do when a real crisis arises?

“Hey, Barb … you look pretty comfy in that seat,” said a voice that I quickly recognized while in the Hunter’s Specialties booth at SHOT Show recently. It was Hunter’s Specialties’ pro Pat Muffler, who hails front the U.P of Michigan and who once served as my turkey guide in Oklahoma during a women’s hunt. […]

You’ll see them on the line at prestigious shooting matches all over the world. Six women wear the company’s trademarked bright blue shirt with additional sponsors logos carefully placed. But make no mistake; the blue shirt says it all. As designated competition shooters for Smith & Wesson, these women not only exemplify the finest skills […]

It’s a review! It’s a story! It’s about how Babbs went all Pioneer Woman on her first successful muzzleloader hunt and filled her freezer with two bucks, thanks to the fine equipment she used afield.

We all know that Filson products speak and move quality — high quality. When you purchase something from Filson, it’s a lifestyle statement of “Yeah, I’m worth it,” coupled with “I trust that this [insert item name here] will benefit me in whatever outdoor activity I do.” Not only does Filson run a beautiful website […]

I’m reaching into the cedar chest at The WON and pulling out this retro-blog, done a couple of years ago and refreshed because I noticed that my neighbors put out their standard manger scene, along with some deer that are way-out-of-proportion too big for the setting. And this year, their dogs got into the act, […]

We know … you’re already thinking ahead to how you can get outside next year, right? We highly recommend attending or going back to a National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF)-sponsored Women in the Outdoors’ event. Full of clinics, how-tos, fun-times, hunting opportunities, fishing, climbing, craft-making, turkey calling, bird watching, and the list just goes on […]

If you want to see the future of shooting sports, read this interview with Amanda Furrer – a 50-meter, three-position rifle shooter on the U.S. Olympic team. She tells us what it was like to compete in her first Olympics last summer, and about what her aspirations are for the future. You’ll smile and you’ll […]

Outdoor writer and Alaskan Christine Cunningham waits for her first book, “Women Hunting Alaska,” to be released in January 2013. In the meantime, we asked this new writer and fairly new hunter some questions about her foray into the world of publishing and about her lifestyle. We think you’re going to like what you learn […]

So, I was at the “Walmarts” in the Grove in the Ozarks of Missouri, shopping for diapers for Pippi Jean (granddaughter extraordinaire) and I happened to notice an end rack in the women’s lingerie-and-other-things department selling the ever-popular Buty Pant. It’s a pair of women’s panties featuring extra padding in the rear. Of course, I […]

Natalie Foster, of Girls Guide to Guns, is headed from L.A. to Oregon to co-host a weekend of firearms training for women, along with Gracie McKee, of Packing Pretty. Check out their weekend’s schedule, and who knows, maybe it’s not to late to join in? Visit Girls Guide to Guns to learn more about the weekend, […]

Hey Madonna, stop being “like a virgin” when it comes to gun handling! Since you’re a “material girl,” let’s get this whole how-to-handle a gun down, shall we?

Talk about a midlife crisis. Have you been following Madonna’s trial and errors lately? Let’s see, first she pranced around with a fake gun and put it to her head, then she bared a nipple in Turkey and just last week, she pointed a fake gun at an audience in Denver. Talk about class. Talk about timing. Talk about not understanding the basics of firearms safety.

I don’t get easily offended. Not anymore. Not after raising three sons and living a military lifestyle that took us everywhere. But I am disgusted during the month of October when people try to be oh-so-clever with the breast cancer awareness campaigns that use edgy, vulgar and/or juvenile slogans. You know what I mean: using words like tatas, rack, boobs. All inserted in cutesy slogans that Madison Avenue feeds us. The type of phrases that 7th grade boys would wear on their bracelets because they can now get away with wearing the word “boob” in school.

Last spring turkey season, I hunted 19 days to get one turkey. You may read about it here if you want, and thanks to my buddy Marti Davis, I managed to put one in the pot. And to get a cool fan so that I can attach it to one of those fancy schmancy Carry-Lite decoys […]

Here’s something you don’t hear about everyday. The organization Sisters on the Fly will be undertaking a “Sister2Sister” cross country relay to transport a vintage trailer to the winner of the vintage trailer raffle. The trailer needs to be towed from McCall, Idaho, to Columbia, New Jersey. As a National Sponsor of Casting for Recovery, Sisters on […]

Once in a while, we need to look back and see what happened while we were busy with the present and trying to avoid the future, or planning for it – whatever your mode was recently. Memorable news items in September Or … Four things I noticed last week  My favorite post of the week: […]