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The Canada Goose

The Canada Geese (Brant canadensis) are in Colorado in numbers right now. They are gobbling up crops all over the front range and plains. Here’s a bit about the geese and their behavior. Stay tuned over the next couple weeks for more information about the gear and tactics to hunt Canadas, my experiences, and how […]

Boomsticks

I just bought my first shotgun. I’ve owned a couple rifles (a .22 and a 30-30) for a few years now, but neither of them ever felt worthy of the moniker boomstick. This one certainly does. Owning a shotgun has opened up an entirely different type of hunting, and I can see why people become […]

Frustration at Jean K. Tool

A few days ago I watched an episode of Meat Eater where Steven Rinella took a ten-day trip to the Brooks Range in Northern Alaska to hunt moose. The Brooks Range is enormous and desolate. Their plane dropped them off at a small and incredibly isolated lake. They spent days glassing and only spotted one […]

Zeroing Your Scope

After years of talking about it, my buddy finally took his hunter safety course and bought that first rifle, the .22. His mind was made up from the get go that he was going to buy a bolt-action, so he ended up with a Marlin XT-22. He had a ton of fun the first time […]