From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Don't Wait For The Rut

August 31, 2009

If you put your whitetail hunting off until signs of the rut begin showing up on field edges, you may want to rethink that strategy. Whitetail seasons are kicking off across the country this month and early season whitetails exhibit great characteristics to key on for success. It may be hot and you could break [...]

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Are You Addicted to My Blog?

August 28, 2009

I hope you’re not addicted to my blog or anything that has to do with the Internet, video games and those cutesy cell phones that do everything but gut a deer. It seems as if everywhere you look these days people are on their personal handheld devices, texting, calling or surfing.
If you’re one of the [...]

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Mission Accomplished!

August 27, 2009

I’m writing this installment of the Mission Dall’s Sheep blog on the flight home from Fairbanks, Alaska, and I’m happy to report, “Mission Accomplished!”
On Wednesday evening August 26, I took a Dall’s ram that later was verified at Fish & Game check-in as 14 years old. He was heavily-broomed on both horns which each measured [...]

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Everyone's On Vacation

August 24, 2009

It’s all over the news. Everyone’s on vacation. We’re right in the middle of an economic crisis and in the middle of a brouhaha over health care, and congress goes on vacation followed by the president. That’s it! I’m going on vacation!
Oops, I forgot. I have to work. Despite wanting to follow the trend of [...]

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Do It Yourself on Public Land

August 21, 2009

I rolled in yesterday from my first hunt of the fall, albeit a short hunt.
Three friends and I traveled to central Wyoming for a three-day pronghorn hunt. I was invited by a good friend and a week prior we scouted the barren BLM land for possible pronghorn ambush sites. Half of us hunted from ground [...]

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Finally Some Good News From Congress

August 19, 2009

Late last month while the health care reform was heating up like a branding iron in the fire, a little-advertised bill in the House of Representatives easily passed through the usual political hurdles.
Titled House Resolution 270, the bill recognizes the establishment of Hunters for the Hungry programs across the United States and the contributions of [...]

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Taking Off the Weight

August 18, 2009

Well, we’ve kept everyone in suspense until the end.  Did I hit my weight loss goal before heading to the mountains on Mission Dall’s Sheep? What was the final weight?
As you may recall, I started at 242 pounds on Feb. 1. The goal weight was 195 for a total loss of 47 pounds.
At the final [...]

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Do You Tweet?

August 17, 2009

Tweeting on Twitter is huge these days. Everyone is talking about it and I swear that the TV hype about tweeting is being done because of dollars exchanging hands behind the scene. I stumbled upon a story about a man who was tweeting more than the average tweeter.
It seems that this past spring a 46-year-old [...]

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Excuse Me. I'm Going to Be Sick

August 14, 2009

I stumbled into a website the other day while researching an article and it made me sick. In short, it says that if you’re a hunter, you’re more likely to be a child abuser. If you’re not sick, you ought to be mad. You can read it on the website for Big Cat Rescue.
A group [...]

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Daydreaming with a Cabela's Catalog

August 12, 2009

I just received my Limited Fall Edition 2009 Cabela’s Catalog. It’s the hard cover edition and probably means my VISA card is memorized by more than one phone operator in Sydney, Neb. If you have the hard cover edition you probably know the financial felling like me. Oh well, at least we’re stimulating the economy.
Back [...]

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More Wolf Controversy

August 10, 2009

Controversy and wolves go hand in hand these days. The latest is heating up today in a war of words between the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and Washington career politicians.
With seemingly nothing better to do (i.e. fix the economy and health care properly and not order more planes…hint…hint) a proposal was introduced by [...]

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Got Elk?

August 7, 2009

I mentioned in my last blog about chaperoning a troop of Boy Scouts in the mountains earlier this week. I’m going up over the weekend to help wrap up the end of the camp and bring my son down for a hot shower. By the end of this weekend he’ll have been up there for [...]

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Puppy Love

August 5, 2009

I just rolled in from chaperoning a troop of Boy Scouts that are on a weeklong campout in the mountains. My watch was for three days and other parents are rotating to help out the troop leader. One of the parents had a Labrador in their camp that made me cringe just looking at it.
I [...]

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Be Careful With Fire

August 3, 2009

I thought we were having a wet year until yesterday. While packing my truck for a short trip I noticed smoke on the horizon. Since the wind was blowing the smoke away from my house I didn’t get too excited. A few minutes later smoke was billowing over the horizon and I knew a wild [...]

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