Mr. Bear, Shy and Aggressive

Its always been a marvel to me how black bears can be so shy, and yet in their own way aggressively live in close proximity to humans.  I don’t know how many times I’v have seen bear while out hunting and the second they know you are around they mysteriously just disappear.  Yet they have [...]

Wounded Deer and Awkward Situations

I’m using only the first names to protect the not-so-innocent. Brad and Johnny were headed to their favorite duck hunting spot on the river when they caught movement on the side of the road. Brad slowed down and they saw a deer that had been hit by a vehicle. It’s back legs had been broken [...]

Comments are Working

Just wanted to inform everyone that comments are working again. I installed a new spam blocker and didn’t realize it goofed up the comment functionality of the site. That has been corrected. Thanks to those who let me know about the problem.

Fastest Trigger in the West

Thirteen years ago I hunted quite a bit with my brother, Benji.  This particular fall, I was elk hunting with him while my dad came along to help us find the critters. I really don’t remember much about that day, really, but I do remember the final 20 minutes of the day quite vividly. The [...]

Big Oregon Elk

Since we lost our content from the past year, I wanted to re-post the pictures from my cousins monster Oregon bull elk from this past season. Prior to the season, their scouting had located two more bulls similar in size to this guy, but on opening day, the other two bulls were shot by another [...]

I Didn’t Mean it to be Funny, And it Wasn’t

For years when we had company over the subject always got around to “what are we dining on today”?  Usually it was deer or elk with a possible exception of Goat, Bear, Antelope or Moose depending on how lucky the draw was for us that year.  Well for the last year when I heard ‘whats for dinner?’ [...]