What Happened to the Years Between ‘Grow up’ and ‘Getting Old’?

Is it so, or does it just seem like half my life I’ve been told to “grow up” and the other half of my life I’ve been told “you’re just getting old”.  Every now and then I see my sons and wife looking at me sideways , shaking their head when I pull another Norgy.  Most of [...]

So Long Little Pete, It Was too Short a Run

I’m sure I spent enough time in the Armed Forces to hear every joke and snide remark there was about having two left feet.  But five years ago we had a couple little friends born on our place that both had two left feet and when they were trying to learn how to walk it probably [...]

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 [...]

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?’ [...]

Speed Goats and Strange Bedfellows

Sue and I took the highway route to Denver Colorado this week and have thoroughly enjoyed the trip.   The whole 1100 mile trip goes through wildlife country so you get to see deer, elk and hundreds if not thousands of Antelope.  Once we left Utah and hit southern Wyoming the altitude doesn’t vary much between 5500′ [...]

Encounters, Close and Closer

I think one of the reasons most of us hunt is because of the opportunity to have close encounters with the game we are pursuing, sometimes even closer then we’d like.  I believe that is one of the reasons I lean towards bow hunting whenever I can because you have to get closer yet and [...]

Game Biologists are Walking a Tight Rope

I was over on SoCal’s site the other day and Al had asked the question as to what others experiences have been in dealing with game biologists.  They probably have a wealth of information but sometimes it tough to get to much out of them.  Those that hunt you can understand, but if they don’t, [...]

Wild Game as it Moves Between Buds and Palates

I am neither a Chef nor a connoisseur of food, but I do know what tickles my taste buds and sooths the palate.  Last night as I pushed back from the table after consuming my share, ok maybe it was a little more then my share, of roast from off Tom’s bear, I got to [...]

Dad’s and Son’s and Fish

Last weekend I see Tom went fishing and sure enough, he puts up a picture of his son and wife Shanna taken while on their outing.  Then I was checking Benji’s, my oldest son’s blog, Getting Out, and there it was again, dad and his son.  It sure brought back the memories of when those dads [...]

Ahh, Come on, It Was a Great Day!

Now you’ve heard the version or young fathers with families at home as to what happened on the first day of our bear hunt, so you need to hear the side from the next older generation.  Sue was the one carrying the tag,  and I was along to eat the noon sandwiches, and Zack, our eleven [...]

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