Your dinner is still in the woods.
Day two began the same as the first. We arrived in the darkness and rode out to the blind along the roads between rice fields on the back of an ATV, stacked three across. It was a moonless morning and pitch dark, the only light emanating from the ATV’s faint red tail lights. Our guide’s […]
Each December, two of my high school friends meet up in California for three days of duck hunting. They have been hunting together for years, but I have never joined them. This past spring, in response to some of my posts showing my recent forays into waterfowl hunting, they asked if I would like to […]
One of my goals, while learning to hunt in Colorado, is to see all of the state wildlife areas. The goal is both to evaluate these places for other curious hunters and also to find the best places to gather game for myself. That purpose is at least part of what drove me recently to […]
I have been on a pretty serious conifer kick lately. Life has felt busier than pretty much any other time in my life. Between working full-time, hunting and foraging, writing, trying to keep up with an exercise regimen, and all the extra tasks that come with the Christmas season, it often feels like I don’t […]