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Shooting It Straight With Retay USA – A Blog For The Outdoor Enthusiast

Here at Retay USA we are first and foremost outdoors people. Women and men that spend our time making a life in nature. We are bringing you amazing written content with a focus on the overall outdoor lifestyle, not a sales pitch. Follow our journeys, tips, tactics, adventures and lives as we put it all out there for you the people that live the outdoors.

  • The Evolution of Shot Shell Performance Part 1
    These elements are what have brought us back around full circle.  They get us close to some of the properties of lead and in some case surpass its performance. These two metals are good substitutes because they have the density like or greater than lead based on what blend of either.
  • Hunting Deer with Dogs : A Yankee hunting in the Shadows of a Southern Racetrack 
    As I grow older I find that I better understand the ins and outs of different and wrong. We often do things differently that someone else deems as wrong. Those lines are subjective. In the hunting community we need to start taking in the experiences of others, try to understand that other hunter.
  • What to Carry for Waterfowl Hunting: Make Your Blind Bag Work For You
    Most public land hunters walk in or are limited to what they can carry in their boat. One time of a shoulder strap cutting off your airway for 300 yards, through shin deep muck will help you understand that less is more. This is aimed at the guy or gal who doesn’t have private blinds, a huge boat or an enclosed trailer to get your stuff to the X. It’s not that we don’t want to bring a stove to cook our breakfast on… it’s that we can’t.
  • A Final Hunt : The Beaver Flow
    And I hope one of them has enough reprobate left in them, with a bit of rue for authority, to sneak just a handful
  • High Pressure Waterfowl Hunting : Why the Details Matter
    The easy days are long gone. This is when the details start to matter. When hunting pressured waterfowl my advice is to leave little to chance, work hard and watch the details. 
  • All Around Shotgun: What does a Do All shotgun look like?
    But we are talking about one gun versatility here, and there is no answer other than 12 gauge for that question. 
  • We Love to Watch Them Strut
    In the rock concert of spring, don’t forget, if you’re not there for the visuals there will be no encore.