Great Outdoors
Grab the .22 and cure your cabin fever
If you’re feeling the effects of cabin fever, throw the .22 in the truck and head out to the rifle range. If you don’t have a rifle range in your area, you can go set […]
Articles by Ty Stockton
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Wild — or feral — horses do need to be managed
The debate over what some call wild horses and others call feral horses gets heated pretty quickly. Emotions run high on both sides, but the fact remains that their populations need to be controlled. Unfortunately, […]
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Your last remains can float away if you want
When the time comes to go find the Great Fishing Hole in the Sky, why not get there with one final boat ride? That’s the message from Glory Boats, purveyors of the latest in outdoor-related […]
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They say it’s the dull knives that’ll cut you …
Back before I was asked to not come back to Boy Scouts, I remember a Scout Master telling us it’s the dull knives that end up cutting people. My reaction was probably one of the […]
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Rabbits and foxes have overtaken my property
I know some folks don’t like having foxes around their property, but I like foxes. Even when we had chickens, we never had any trouble with foxes, even though I know there’s a den on […]
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Ice is only good for a few specific things
While waiting to get on the ice for a league hockey game, I used to hear my teammates grumbling about the figure skaters who were twirling around on the surface. The most common comment was, […]
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If it’s not on you, lock up your gun
Lock up your guns. All of them. Lock them up in a good safe that can’t easily be cracked. If you have a home-defense gun you like to keep handy, lock it up, too. You […]
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Bundle up and get some practice shooting
There’s a lot to be said for a roaring fire, a batch of fresh cookies and a warm cup of hot chocolate on a blisteringly cold day. But there’s also a lot to be said […]
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Making my pasture more attractive to geese
I looked out in the pasture a couple of weeks ago, in the middle of a pretty nasty snowstorm, and I watched about 250 Canada geese hover a foot over the ground right out in […]
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You’d think I would be immune to wind by now
For a guy who was born in Wyoming and has spent pretty close to his whole life here, I’m a big wimp when it comes to wind. I can take it for reasonably extended periods […]