Hunting: handgun hunting, big game, and field narratives

Handgun hunting is the specialty. Jon Wayne Taylor hunts big game with revolvers and single-shot handguns and writes the hunts up honestly, including the ones that took years. The African work includes a one-ton eland bull taken with a 10.5-inch Taurus Raging Hunter in .460 S&W Magnum, a four-species Springbok Slam in the Succulent Karoo with a SIG Cross in 6.5 Creedmoor, a Cape mountain zebra with the Wilson Combat NULA 20S in 300 HAMR, a nyala in the Umkomaas valley with a 7mm-08 Nosler Custom Handgun, and a Damara dik-dik out of Africa's Tiny Ten.

Closer to home: nine seasons of unsuccessful Idaho black bear hunting before a 16-yard shot finally connected, South Texas hogs and javelina, and instruction pieces on teaching new hunters to field-dress and use what they kill. These are narrative hunting features, not gear listicles — but the load, the optic, and the distance are always in them, because that is the part a reader actually needs.