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A Review of the Ruger SR9c
Written By Mark Knowles After several months of research I settled on the Ruger SR9c. It won’t be my only carry gun option, but its my number one choice and here’s why. I wanted a full featured gun that felt substantial in hand and could be carried concealed. When I picked this up the first…
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The Real Wolf – Book Review
Grandpa told me there were wolves in the valley we grew up in, in southwest Washington. I suspect he told us that to keep us from getting lost in the woods. Later, I heard of wolf sightings in the Elkhorns in northeast Oregon, long before there were any confirmed wolves there. Whether the wolves…
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Guide’s Choice PACA Long Sleeve Fishing & Travel Shirt
People often ask me about the cool shirts I wear. I get them from Guide’s Choice and wear the colorful ones on the water and the earth tones in the woods. It’s a fishing and a traveling shirt, but I wear them hunting too, on warmer weather jaunts in Africa, for upland birds and for…
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Guide’s Choice Cold Water Wading Bibs
Filming episodes of our show, Frontier Unlimited, we found ourselves in Idaho twice last winter. Once to work with Nez Perce in the tribal hatchery and once to fish the Clearwater for steelhead. On both trips, I packed my Guide’s Choice Cold Water Wading Bibs. These bibs are 100 percent waterproof and they come with…
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Grays Harbor Unders
Base layers. You need them starting in September, all the way into May, here in the Pacific Northwest. You need them in the North Country from Montana to Minnesota to Maine. You need them in Canada, Alaska and the Yukon. When the skies bring rain and snow, the best base layer going is from Grays…
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Guide’s Choice Seattle Boonie Hat
You know I wear a felt hat in the winter and a snakeskin straw hat in the summer and it’s a rare day when I put something else on my head. But I wanted to tell you about the Guide’s Choice Seattle boonie hat. A boonie hat is the kind of headgear you strap on…
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Mojo Board Shorts
Board shorts are unmistakably male, that’s not to say a girl couldn’t wear them, but it’s like when a girl wears a man’s shirt. Anyway, I needed board shorts because I was headed to Florida. My regular camouflage and canvas and tin cloth Northwest look wasn’t going to cut it in the Sunshine state, where…
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Oregami MRT suitcase
You don’t know how a suitcase is going to work for you till you take it on a bear hunt. David Kao called me last spring and said he had a new case for me to try. He put one in my hands in August, in time for a September trip to Minnesota. I watched…
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Danner 453 Hiking Boots
I started wearing my Danner 453s in 2013 when I started working on the Fishing Mount Hood Country book with co-author Robert Campbell. First trip was to the East Fork Hood River with one of my pro-staffers, Tommy Brown. We jumped from log to log and waded across gravel bars to float dry flies in…
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Wilsonville, Where the Good Guys Have Lasers and Fast Cars
“If you want a glimpse of the future just look behind you.” Thus begins Fast and Furious 7. When I looked back, I saw myself on the track at Portland International Raceway, in the driver seat of a big block ’66 Ford as the lights on the “Christmas tree” bounced from red to yellow to…
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Gear Reviews
In his years of hunting, Gary has had the opportunity to try out a lot of hunting and fishing gear. Because of his experience in this area, he has a lot to offer in the way of hunting and fishing gear reviews. From trucks to flashlights, Gary has tried out most of the outdoor gear imaginable—so he knows what gear is good enough to get.
Looking for a new boat? Check out what Gary has to say about a few different kinds that he’s been able to try out. Need a moisture-proof gun case for wetter climates? Gary has the scoop on those. Binoculars? Ear muffs? GPS units? Gary will keep you in the loop with all the outdoor gear reviews you’ll need in order to find the hunting and fishing gear you require for your next adventure.
Check out the different types of hunting and fishing gear that Gary Lewis has reviewed below: