Your dinner is still in the woods.
I decided I would pluck my first goose. I’d heard again and again from every hunter I’d watched, read, or met that old Jim Harrison quote–something along the lines of “it’s a sin against god and man to skin a bird.” After hearing that so many times did I really even have a choice? I […]
When I set out to start a blog about learning to hunt, fish, forage, and farm in Colorado it was driven largely by a need for change. I’d spent the last six years as a firefighter and really felt like I needed to get out of that business. I loved my time as a firefighter–it […]
My first goose came after a plethora of blunders. There’s a reason that folks typically learn to hunt with a mentor. But it only took me a couple days to figure out where I was making mistakes and bring one home. Hopefully my stories will speed that process up for you. When I started this […]
Prior to my first goose hunt, I had some firm ideas about what it meant to hunt waterfowl. Hunting waterfowl required an elaborate blind, a vast array of expensive decoys, head-to-toe camouflage (with face paint), and a well-trained retriever. This does describe one style of waterfowl hunting, but for those of us just getting started, […]