I’m giving myself a hunting trip for my birthday
Yeah, yeah, insert your favorite over-the-hill joke here. I’ve heard a ton of them over the last week or so. Even my kids are jumping in on it. I suppose I had it coming, [...]
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I could easily get addicted to raccoon hunting
I need to find someone with coon dogs who’ll let me go hunting with him sometime. I’ve been reading a lot about raccoon hunting, and it sounds like my kind of activity. [...]
Take time today to thank a veteran
Some folks get today off for Veterans’ Day, and I think it’s a state law that you have to do two things. First off, thank a vet. Whether it’s someone who served decades [...]
Get your own turkey for Thanksgiving this year
There’s not much that beats a good Thanksgiving turkey. Especially when it’s surrounded by all the other Thanksgiving goodies: stuffing, sweet potatoes, green beans, [...]
Going hunting? Don’t forget to take your rope
My friend and coworker Greg came back from a deer hunt recently, and he filled me in on the details of his successful trip. He had prepared well, he knew the country, he put [...]
Get away from the news and go hunting
Got a week free? Go elk hunting. Just a few days? Get out after deer. A morning or afternoon? Go try to knock down a duck or bag a blue grouse. It’s all open. From [...]
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 [...]