It Was the Best of Food, It Was the Worst of Food
The best meal I ever ate, anywhere, featured cottontail rabbit fried hot in an electric skillet, hunted up fresh from the fields within sight of the big picture window of my friend’s southern New...
View ArticleCowboy Medicine
I am often struck by the power of photographs, and the way they can transport us in time and space, sometimes backwards to a place of fond memories, sometimes forward in anticipation of future...
View ArticleForever Humbled
“Obsessive pursuit finally led the bull of his dreams. Then something else took him over”. There is a place I have been that many elk hunters must eventually visit. The mountains may shine amidst...
View ArticleThe Promise Of Deer
“One hot afternoon in August I sat under the elm, idling, when I saw a deer pass across a small opening a quarter mile east. A deer trail croses our farm, and at this point any deer traveling is...
View ArticleDeer Times Two –“Double Challenge” By Jim Kjelgaard
Here Offered, Double Challenge by Jim Kjelgaard. From the dustjacket: “The stirring outdoor story about a young boy, Ted; his collie, Tammie; and a pair of tremendous bucks in the wild country of the...
View ArticleThe Gift
The young whitetail buck bounds proudly into the field of newly planted winter wheat and stops, and I know that I must remember to take a breath. Just moments before it had magically appeared from the...
View ArticleSportsmen’s Recipes
Most everyone has heard of Babe Ruth. He may have been the most dominating baseball player of his time, and all time, and he is considered to be one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture....
View ArticleA Day On The Water
Incoming!Great Beyond / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA Twelve years is a long time to wait for almost anything, and a chunk of lost time like that can be nearly unbearable when you are a big game bowhunter....
View ArticleAn Elk Hunter Looks At Fifty
My head throbs and the blood sings in my ears as I slowly climb towards the new day, and when I look behind I can already see my truck parked far below in a meadow of willows and lush green … Continue...
View ArticleA Little Tussle Among Friends
Take a look at this short video of two mule deer bucks doing what young bucks do, although they are probably still new to the game and may not be completely sure exactly what makes them do it. The...
View ArticleCowboy Medicine
January 21, 2013 I am often struck by the power of photographs, and the way they can transport us in time and space, sometimes backwards to a place of fond memories, sometimes forward in...
View ArticleSome Flint Knapping “How To”
This short video about how to flint knap comes courtesy of Dave Massender of Oregon, and Colorado. As you will see, Dave can make it look quite easy, which of course it is not. He tells me that he has...
View ArticlePronghorn In The Pan
The meat of the Pronghorn Antelope is a most precious commodity from my point of few, speaking as a hunter and a huge fan of all wild fish, game, and fowl. Yet, I think it safe to say that the beast...
View ArticleMaple-Vinegar Marinated Pronghorn
Maple syrup was used as a traditional sweetener by many of the Northeastern Native American tribes, though there were never any antelope in that part of the country. Luckily, I live in the part of...
View ArticleSilently Waiting
On stand for elk in western Colorado. You Might Also Like How It Ought To Be ______________________________________________________________ Food Freedom – and Bowhunting Too! Michael Patrick McCarty
View Article“Aim Small, Miss Small”
October 12, 2013 Michael Patrick McCarty It is that special time of year again, and for many of us it can never come quite soon enough. The promise of a weather change hangs suspended in the air and...
View ArticleBringing Home The Bacon
Home butchering and processing of venison and other fish and game is the only way to go if you want high quality wild meat on your table. Never done it before? Don’t despair – you can do it. You’ll be...
View ArticleForever Humbled
“Obsessive pursuit finally led the bull of his dreams. Then something else took him over”. There is a place I have been that many elk hunters must eventually visit. The mountains may shine amidst...
View ArticleElk In Time
Returning home from a short week of elk hunting with a long drive ahead, I had an opportunity to reflect on what had obviously been a very successful endeavor. Our small group of four hunters had...
View ArticleSome Basic Mountain Mulemanship
There is no better way to hunt elk in the high Rocky Mountains than by horseback or mule. Working with pack horses and mules is fast becoming a lost art. There’s a lot to be said for hunting with mules...
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