Kentucky in the Big Time
December 26, 2013
For many reasons, my home state of Kentucky has made in to the big time for whitetail hunting over the last two or three decades. There are surely a large combination of reasons why we have larger whitetails and larger whitetail populations that we’ve traditionally had, better land management on behalf of both Kentucky Fish […]
Trophy Country
December 18, 2013
When you see terrain from a distance it always seems like it’s no problem; like it’s easily navicable. The angles aren’t too steep. This hill’s not that tall. The deception was so thorough as I looked at the mountain from the closed window of the truck that even out of shape and overweight as I […]
A Fortunate Mistake
December 1, 2013
On the first day that we decided to hunt a piece of public land about ten miles north of Upton, WY* we went straight to a spot where John had seen a group of does regularly. Just after sunrise they would feed out of the pine and cedar woods and on to the sagebrush flats, […]
Ten or Ten
November 28, 2013
When we woke up it was cold. Damn cold. A frigid six degrees in the Black Hills of Wyoming. It was what I had been waiting for in three seasons of hunting mule deer there. Cold and snow. Fresh snow. Four to six inches of it covering up everything. A perfect day for tracking. After […]
Why Deer Hunters Should Be Coyote Hunters
November 25, 2013
Why all deer hunters should be coyote hunters (PDF): To date, the SRS research has found that coyotes are, in fact, taking a tremendous toll on fawns. Of 60 fawns monitored over the course of the work, only 16 have survived until autumn, when they are old enough to be safe from predation and can […]