Matthew Shane Brown

First published on The Upland Soul on May 20, 2025. I did some spring cleaning recently. A primary objective was to clear out an old dresser in the spare room…

First published on The Upland Soul. The Ford V-8. The Dust Bowl. Hiroshima and the atom bomb. The birth of rock and roll and the death of The King. Vietnam.…

First published on The Upland Soul. March and April are weird months for me in general. Nothing going on, really. Bird season is over and I’m fresh off our annual…

First Published on The Upland Soul. Back in the good old days, perhaps around ten years ago, you could walk around any gun show in America and have your pick…

First published on The Upland Soul on March 27, 2025. I’ve written previously about my love for bombing around the bajadas of the Sonoran desert in a clapped-out old Toyota…

First published on The Upland Soul. I made my first camp at the trailhead 100 yards from an abandoned mining cabin in the national forest. It was a beautiful Great…

First published on The Upland Soul. When I moved to the wild and woolly West after a childhood on the East Coast, I had precious little understanding of the way…

First published on The Upland Soul. It’s common knowledge among avid upland hunters that game birds follow boom-or-bust cycles that are largely dependent on the habitat and climatic conditions in…

First published on The Upland Soul. When I let slip to the uninitiated that the hunt I look forward to the most each year is rifle javelina in February, they…