Not just for the birds
Doing some spring cleaning in late fall, and thought I'd add a Used Gear section to our online shop in case anyone's looking for a deal. Just three things there right now: Used Tenzing BV16 Upland Bird VestUsed Garmin TT15 Track/Train Dog CollarUsed SPOT Gen3 Satellite GPS Messenger
Yesterday, Thanksgiving, we hunted a beloved area that got burned in a big fire that started on Labor Day. We weren't sure what to expect, but have been anxious to see it up close for a while now. From the road, you can only see so much. Inside it, the devastation was both unsurprising and …
Ring, Ring. "Hello, can I help you?" "Do you guys have gas?" Bob asked. I could hear the woman on the other end laughing. "Of course we do, we're a gas station," she answered. "We're only open from 8am-5pm." "Just checking, we'd hate to drive all that way and find out you didn't," he added. …
Are the gullible dumb? I've hunted chukar for two decades now, and once in a while I'll have a hunt that causes some kind of fundamental reevaluation of my identity. I earned an Ivy League Ph.D., and even I'm proud of that and view it as an accomplishment. At times, I've even thought it meant …
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I saw this on Facebook the other day and it made me cry. I'm not sure if that's saying much since I cry (when I'm not enraged) at parallel or crooked lines. I somehow developed a soft spot for Jimmy Stewart when I was a kid. I don't really know much about him, but he …
You asked, you shall get. We have Bucking Chukar hoodies now (not many, though!), as well as more Bucking Chukar T-Shirts. We also added new die-cut high quality vinyl Chukar Culture and Bucking Chukar stickers. We're working on a killer new hat design, but struggling a bit to find a reliable hat embroidering vendor (any …
The first Garmin Alpha 200i I received, and about which I wrote my initial review, was defective: the compass would not calibrate properly and the pointer sometimes literally spun in circles on the screen when I tried to find my pointing dog. Worse than useless. I spent hours testing and recalibrating the compass on that …
I went elk hunting one day this October. A friend went with me. We got to the spot I'd planned to leave the truck, and -- nobody was there! With plenty of dark before dawn we set out for the short hike to the spot I wanted to glass. I'd hunted birds there several times …
After getting several glowing recommendations for this vest last year, I finally managed to snag one in the off-season. I've now used this size M/L Tenzing BV16 since the beginning of the season, for 18 hunts and just about 100 hours. As with all the stuff I review, I bought this vest with my own …
I jumped on this as soon as I heard about it. The fact that it had an inReach built into it helped because we'd been considering getting an inReach for a while. The Alpha 200i is a tiny bit thinner and has a bigger screen than the Alpha 100, which I've used nearly flawlessly for …