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The Freedom of Your Feet

April 1, 2010

I’m making this blog brief. It’s spring break for my kids and we’re trying to spend as much of our time outdoors as possible. Cole and I just returned from a mountain hike with our good friend Gale Smith. Our goal was to ascend to the top of a mesa to see if the elk [...]

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Picking Up Hitchhikers

March 8, 2010

Some of you probably can’t even remember the days when picking up hitchhikers was acceptable. People routinely hit the road with nothing more than extra clothes in a duffel and their thumb in the air. You didn’t have to worry (at least not as much) about serial killers, rapists and simply “weird folks.”
I worked with [...]

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Burning Down the House

December 28, 2009

We tried to fit it all in including an outing for coyotes, but the weather outside, well, as the old song goes, it was “frightful.” I’m sure many of you fought the huge winter storm crossing the midsection of the country and that same system wrapped back into the edge of the West bringing plunging [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2009

I’m hoping you’re just checking this blog briefly as you prepare for the Christmas holiday. I’ll keep this blog short so you don’t miss out on the egg nog at the office holiday party or the Chex party mix at home.
First, be safe wherever you travel and keep a wary eye on the weather. We’re [...]

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Having Fun With Relatives

December 21, 2009

My nephew Spencer is set to arrive in another day along with his little sister Bailey. My brother and his wife are joining us for a Rocky Mountain Christmas. We’ll be joined by my other brother and my parents. Now back to my nephew. He’s five and already becoming an avid outdoor person. My brother [...]

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Litter Box Train Your Deer

December 16, 2009

I was well into my second mug of caffeine-jolting java the other morning when I almost spit up a mouthful while catching a story on the CBS Early Show. There, right before my redneck-trained eyes, was a deer on TV living with a family right in their house!
I kid you not! Approximately five years ago [...]

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I Told You it Was Coyote Time

December 14, 2009

I was already decked out in my snow camouflage when the bus rolled to a stop in our driveway last Friday. Yes, I’m still suffering from hunting withdraw like a dependent trying to kick an addiction. By noon the computer screen was getting blurry and by 3 p.m. my head was slumping into the screen. [...]

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Kayser Clampett Returns Home

December 3, 2009

After wrapping up Cole’s hunt at the end of November it was time to go home for the first time of any amount for more than 40 days. I loaded my truck back up with enough gear to make Jed Clampett jealous and headed west.
It was kind of weird. I was doubtful whether the cats [...]

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A Plethora of Mule Deer

December 1, 2009

Try as I might, I couldn’t get away from the muleys this season. Take a look at this photo. Yes, it’s another mule deer and we found it in one of my favorite whitetail honey holes. In fact, I barely found whitetails there.
Apparently the old say of “there goes the neighborhood” might apply to many [...]

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Cole's First Buck

November 9, 2009

I know I promised whitetail topics in November, but you have to forgive me.
My son Cole shot his first buck the other day and it just happened to be a different species of deer than whitetail. I had a couple days off before making my annual tour of whitetail country and Cole opted to go [...]

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Missing the Action

September 29, 2009

Have you ever missed a big event in your life or the life of your family?
Have you missed an important anniversary, a birthday or even the birth of your child? I admit to a few. Even before I started down my current craziness of the freelance lifestyle my old job kept me on the road. [...]

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Summer Camp is Over

September 7, 2009

It’s not the biggest pronghorn I’ve ever bowkilled, but it was one of the more memorable. The weekend before school started I was busy trying to decide whether to scout for deer, scout for elk or simply stay home and prepare gear for the hunting crusade about to begin. I then remembered I had a [...]

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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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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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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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