Your dinner is still in the woods.
Finding a good area to hunt on public land can be very challenging. Where I live there is a lot of public land around (mostly national forest), but the closest spots to hunt are at least an hour away. It is easy to end up going back to the same spot over and over because […]
A good friend of mine recently, after years of talk, finally went through his hunter’s safety course. We’ve been talking about hunting together for as long as I’ve known him, but like many people I know, he found the idea interesting and exciting, but didn’t have a lot of follow through. After a few drinks […]
Cacciatore means “hunter” in Italian. Alla cacciatora effectively translates to “as a hunter would have it” or “hunter-style.” The dish most often talked of here in the states is Chicken Cacciatore, though you can only assume that this dish originated as a means of cooking game meat–likely rabbit. There are thousands of different recipes out […]
Every day in the woods is difficult to predict; there are so many variables, so many things interwoven and in constant flux. This hunt I was wildly off in my predictions. The forecast called for abnormally high temperatures. In Boulder the high for the day was nearly sixty. Up in the mountains above it would […]