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 […]
Counting Points and Game Management
December 6, 2013
Over at Deer and Deer Hunting Nicole McClain makes an interesting point that gets lost in much of the hoopla of hunting television and magazine coverage: that hunting shouldn’t be about killing an animal with a large number of points, but about the opportunity to participate in killing and retrieving an animal. In her article […]
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, […]