Hunting

When you dissect a yelp, you find that it is made up of a high-pitched “kee” note that breaks over sharply into a sound best described as a “youk”. When you put the two [...]

Judy was taking a break from Spring flower work, seated on a swing on the north side of our lawn and on the west side of our garage. I was working on a new treestand practice shooting platform in [...]

My buddy Mike and I were on a five-day September bow hunt for pronghorns in western South Dakota. We had high hopes, for it was getting near the peak of the rut. The pronghorn’s, not ours. [...]

I don't know whether Mom or Dad had the bright idea of cutting down a frozen buck, leaning it head-first against a tree, and then having all three of us pile on, which we did willingly.

When trying to figure out and predict a buck's pattern, the author believes weather, type of day, stress, and other variables have a major influence.

Bill “Bearcrazy” Wiesner knew bears and bear hunting. He took 57 black bears. He, his wife, and two sons have taken more than 100, 30 of which qualify for the Pope & Young record book, and seven [...]

To gain the necessary knowledge, you have to take animals.

Odorous, in the extreme, and not a good idea

How to develop a repeatable, consistent archery shooting form that takes the strain off your muscles and puts it on your bones, where it belongs.

“What’s that?” the old man said as he pointed to the deer call hanging around my neck. “It’s a deer call” I said. “You mean them deer talk?” he asked.