From the monthly archives:

July 2009

Stalking A Big Bear

July 31, 2009

Spring is a time for early morning turkeys and late afternoon bear. I’m more the afternoon type of girl, but I do make exceptions. With bear hunting in Alaska, no exceptions are needed. You wake up at 9, eat breakfast and then hunt for the remainder of the day… sounds like the perfect hunt on [...]

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How Old Is It?

July 31, 2009

As you know, I’m a bone freak and pick up any bones I find, particularly antlers and skulls. I recently dragged a moose skull home even though it had shed its antlers prior to its death. My wife wondered why. I’m starting to wonder as well.
A couple weeks back the kids and I found a [...]

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Goodbye Buddy and Holly

July 29, 2009

It finally arrived. It was time to say goodbye to our skunks Buddy and Holly. Not only have the twosome been growing like dandelions on Miracle-Gro, but they’ve become quite the hunters when tackling crickets and grasshoppers. We could hear them crunching on a good hopper from 10 yards away on a still evening. The [...]

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Cash For Clunkers

July 27, 2009

Actually the new government program is called “Cash for Guzzlers,” but I think the Beverly Hillbillies reference fits the program better. What does the program mean to hunters? If you’re like most of us, you have a truck or SUV you use as your main hunting vehicle. I doubt few of you are hitting the [...]

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Nationalized Conceal Carry Legislation Fails

July 24, 2009

If you missed the national news this week, senate legislation failed what would have made it simpler for you and I to carry a concealed weapon across state lines. It would have made states that had right-to-carry laws to recognize other states with similar licenses. Currently, states pass their own laws and reciprocity between states [...]

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Taking it All Including the Kitchen Sink

July 22, 2009

I don’t have to go without anymore. It’s not that I’m deprived, but whenever we hit the outdoors we make sure we take everything… including the kitchen sink. How do I manage to get it all in?
Since we generally take the horses camping we have to use a horse trailer and in our last round [...]

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SPOT Revisited

July 22, 2009

Though I wrote about my “electronics” considerations for the trip a while back, I didn’t get around to picking up the SPOT messenger until last weekend.  What a cool device and concept.
Basically, when you turn SPOT on it first finds your GPS coordinates. Then with the basic service (the package I bought) you have three [...]

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ATV Ethics

July 20, 2009

This isn’t the first time I’ve been disappointed with ATV owners. While scouting a few days ago we came across several sets of tracks made from ATVs. That’s not unusual considering the amount of ATVs owned by sportsmen today.
What was disturbing was the fact all the tracks we found were in restricted areas where only [...]

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Horsing Around

July 17, 2009

Have you been thinking about pronghorn season? I have. It’s about a month away and gives me the first chance at pursuing big game with stick and string. I have a soft spot for pronghorns. Not only did they offer me one of my first real bowhunting adventures besides cornfield whitetails, but they also helped [...]

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Face to Face With a Rattler

July 15, 2009

Over the weekend my family and I were busy cleaning up junk in the creek bottom below our house. The winding creek served as a homestead site and since has served as a depository for anything that the previous owners didn’t want to haul to the landfill. That brings us to the present where my [...]

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A Grandmother and a Fawn

July 13, 2009

What’s your image of elderly grandmothers? I imagine them to be gray-haired (feel free to change that to blue), caring and always cheery with a plateful of homemade, gooey, chocolate chip cookies. What I never pictured was a spiteful, teeth-gritting, shovel-swinging zombie old lady with enough hatred to beat an innocent fawn to death; allegedly [...]

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Big Game Awards Organizations

July 10, 2009

I just received my summer 2009 Pope and Young newsletter. As an avid bowhunter (that’s putting it mildly) I like to keep my pulse on the heartbeat of the sport. I believe Pope and Young is a good conduit to keep me updated on issues concerning the sport, especially for its future. I’m also a [...]

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Skunk Updated

July 8, 2009

On the May 22 blog I wrote about a smelly problem at our house. It’s still a problem. We were reminded of it on July 4 when my brother was visiting with his yellow Labrador named Dodge. As we chatted, Dodge cruised our property in typical hunting dog fashion. After a couple of laps he [...]

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Protection our Hunting Rights on Federal Land

July 6, 2009

It’s ironic that we just finished celebrating the Fourth of July, a holiday that celebrates our independence and personal rights. The irony is that two new pieces of national legislation were just introduced to protect our hunting rights on federal lands.
This bold statement, aptly called the Hunting Heritage Protection Act, is the combined effort of [...]

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You're a Free Person So Embrace the Fourth

July 3, 2009

It’s the Fourth of July and we have plenty of reasons to celebrate. We’re free. We live in a great country. We have great hunting opportunities across this great nation and we can hunt year-round. For my friends north of the border, you have much of the same except a different holiday, but feel free [...]

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