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Winter Wildlife Watching

January 18, 2011

I admit to being a wildlife watching junkie. As I write this blog I’m watching a cock pheasant, a dozen Hungarian partridge and two mule deer foraging in my front yard. I’ve always had a fondness for watching animals. It lead to an interest in wildlife photography and, of course, an insatiable appetite for hunting.
Watching [...]

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While I’m Away the Family Will Play

October 25, 2010

When I got back to the lodge in Colorado I immediately called home to share the great news about my elk hunt. Little did I know there was some great news happening there as well.
Before I left I told my son Cole to ask Sharon if she would go with him to go deer hunting. [...]

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I’ll Take Another Pronghorn Please

October 4, 2010

Here’s a quick update from the field. I only had a day off between trips and I promised Cole I’d take him hunting as much as humanly possible so we slipped in a speedy pronghorn hunt.
Friday evening after school we got out and actually spotted this buck, but he headed the opposite direction and with [...]

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My Turn

August 27, 2010

With Cole’s pronghorn down and two birds killed with one stone (his first big game archery kill and a TV show) I had no stress to shoot another pronghorn. We’d give it another day, maybe two and then wrap the trip as successful. My first day with my Mathews bow in hand turned out to [...]

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Have I Created a Monster?

August 23, 2010

I just landed back at home after a week of searing heat and sore buns while bowhunting pronghorn in central Wyoming. It was Cole’s first big game archery hunt and he had prepared well in advance for the big trip. Although we were filming for an episode of Extreme Pursuits I had to let Cole [...]

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Here They Come

July 12, 2010

It was a father daughter weekend. Cole and Sharon traveled late in the week for Cole to participate in the state 4-H shooting sports competition leaving Katelyn and I to fend for ourselves.
Although she had to practice with her horse for upcoming 4-H competitions, we decided to take a hike in the mountains with our [...]

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I’m Stepping Up on My Soapbox Again

June 7, 2010

I’m getting up on my soapbox again mainly because I’m too much of a hick to have a pedestal. OK, it’s really an old milk crate, but I didn’t steal it, honest.
This past weekend from dawn to dusk I was involved in the county 4-H Shooting Sports competition where my son Cole competed. In between [...]

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Something Great for Youth Hunting

May 5, 2010

I just ran across a great program in South Dakota and I encourage any of you that are interested to take a good look at this program to see if it might work in your state or community. Called South Dakota Adventures, this program teams adult mentors with interested youth who have limited access to [...]

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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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Aiming for a Cure

March 19, 2010

This weekend I get to do something fun and hopefully benefit deserving recipients. I’m grabbing a flight to Iowa for the annual “Aiming For A Cure”
upland game hunt. The Aiming For A Cure Foundation is a group of committed individuals with a drive to help children and their families that suffer from various forms of [...]

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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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Helping Out the Next Generation of Hunters

February 15, 2010

Over the weekend I ended up in Rapid City, South Dakota, for one of my daughter’s skating competitions. While I was there I had some business to complete. I’m working on an archery business article on how to run a shop better so I couldn’t think of a better example than Al Kraus who runs [...]

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Happy New Year

December 31, 2009

It’s New Year’s Eve and you know what that means? Yes, you have to make resolutions for the New Year. Sure, you could quit smoking, lose weight, promise to live on a balanced budget or even go out on a limb and volunteer to help with world peace.or you could simply focus on the outdoors.
There’s [...]

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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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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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