Jack O'Connor Hunting Heritage and Education Center

06/05/2026

Stop by the Nez Perce County Fairgrounds today! We have a booth at the Idaho Trappers convention!

06/04/2026

In Jack O’Connor’s December 1961, Outdoor Life article titled, “Damn the Nonresidents!” it is interesting to see that little has changed in Idaho or across the country. Jack’s closing paragraph states:
“The chap who shouts loudest for high nonresident fees and many restrictions may not be so happy some day when he takes a dream trip to Alaska. He’ll hunt on federal lands for game which for years was protected and managed by his taxes, yet he’ll pay $200 or so for nonresident hunting rights. The resident Alaskan buys the same rights for $7.”

06/04/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTuur8EigZk

In the fall of 1958, Wi******er put Jack O'Connor and Elmer Keith a...

06/03/2026

Happy Birthday! To you Mr. Brad O’Connor!

06/03/2026

In 1955 Jack wrote a column titled “Is the .270 better than the .30-06?” And his answer, for the most part, was yes: https://trib.al/BuUKrkD

06/03/2026

If you could only own one deer rifle for the rest of your life, could you really argue against the .270?

Since its introduction nearly a century ago, the .270 Wi******er has earned a place in more deer camps, elk hunts, and gun safes than almost any cartridge in American history. Its slim bullets killed all out of proportion to their weight, charming a generation of hunters and changing an entire industry.

Jack O'Connor made it famous. But it was the cartridge's real-world performance that made it legendary.

Wayne Van Zwoll digs into the history, the ballistics, and the culture behind what many still call America's cartridge.
Read more: https://www.boone-crockett.org/270-america-s-cartridge?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bc_pl_1772249016789_umw3hl&utm_content=bc_1780142401336_is7nw4

06/03/2026

Here's how this legendary gun writer's insight helped shape the concept of the American classic rifle: https://trib.al/uhdT6Dj

06/01/2026

See you all this weekend!!!

06/01/2026

Did anyone else notice one of our Scholarship Recipients was an LHS valedictorian!!!!
Congratulations class of 2026

06/01/2026

Still applicable today!