Give wild animals space
My cousin’s wedding lured me to Grand Teton National Park not long ago. While I was up in that neck of the woods, I did a bit of scouting around for wildlife. In a national [...]
Great Outdoors
Maps make a hunt a hunt
There’s a whole lot more to hunting than taking aim and pulling the trigger. There’s all the stuff you see while you’re out in the wilds. You’re away from [...]
Get that rifle sighted in now
Sighting in your rifle is a must. If you’re going to hunt with it, you absolutely have to make sure it’s shooting where it should. It doesn’t matter if you sighted it [...]
Be aware of the rules so you don’t violate hunting laws
Some game violations are committed out of pure disregard for the law, and some are just simple mistakes. But there are a few that seem to be the most common offenses every [...]
Don’t wait any longer if you haven’t gone after doves yet
The archery seasons are open for antelope, elk and deer in most areas, and there are even some rifle seasons open for some hunt areas. Because of that, and the fact that [...]
Hunting is about more than getting an animal
As we were sitting around in camp on our hunt last week, my sons and I were talking about the things we’d seen that day. My youngest said he wished we’d had a chance to [...]
Taking the kids hunting made the hunt even better
My kids are very busy with 4-H, school sports, and school itself, so it’s been difficult to get them out to hunt. With coronavirus shutting down a lot of those usual [...]
I had to retrain myself to walk quietly
Walking through the woods quietly isn’t easy. And it’s not a skill you keep if you don’t practice it often. Work and family responsibilities have prevented me from [...]
Not enough elk or deer, but plenty of moose on my hunt
I went hunting for elk and deer over the week of Labor Day, but I kept running into moose instead. There were cow moose, cows with calves, little bulls, big bulls, and [...]
Dress in layers to beat the weather
I might not have been so happy about the snow during my hunt if I’d been sleeping in a tent, but I went hunting with friends who have campers. We stayed relatively warm and [...]