Not just for the birds
Our school offers an enrichment program for grades 6 through 12, which consists of two-week blocks of varied "courses" allowing teachers to do things with kids that the "normal" curriculum doesn't typically allow. Since we began this program a couple years ago, students have been able to learn how to create striking landscape paintings, make …
October has always been my favorite month. I love everything about it. The change of the colors of the leaves, the western larches turning golden, Halloween, and of course because it's upland hunting season. October in the chukar hills October is also my birthday month. I almost forgot to send my twin brother a birthday …
The ugly under-belly of chukar hunting has once again exposed itself here, hoping, maybe, for some kind of swan song celebration of self-hatred. I don't really want to give the person the pleasure of a reaction, which -- not unlike the mentality of mass murderers, who failed in life to get the attention they crave …
We haven't made many videos since Leslie traded the camcorder for a Benelli. I was looking through my Youtube channel the other day, and noticed that one of the first videos we made (and one of my favorites) had been permanently blocked because I used copyrighted music as a soundtrack. I have no problem with …
Friday, August 30th. It was warm outside, t-shirt weather, and I was hoping for a crisp, cool morning on grouse opener but the air felt thick and muggy. You could hear a pin drop in all of its calmness. I worked my way up through the deep draw that was nestled between stands of tall …
Sometimes, the best way to define something is to begin with what it is not. I think this is because the more stuff we get exposed to, the harder it is to distinguish between things that appear similar but really aren't. The Internet Age has amplified this, as we all know. Social media in particular …
[UPDATE: This is a re-post from almost exactly a year ago. I don't mean to be snarly, but I get emails every day from people wanting to know where to find chukar. I guess this surprises me a little because I must have assumed that people realize chukar hunting is mostly about exploring public land …
I just cleaned 20 birds (chukar, Huns, and dusky grouse). As I've mentioned before on this blog, I age my birds before cleaning them, sometimes for up to 3 weeks, so they tend to add up when we get around to cleaning them. They go from Peat or Angus's hand to my Badlands vest to …
[This is a re-post of a post from 2017] After hunting chukar for the past 17 years I decided it was about time to take my first shooting lesson. The irony is not at all lost on me, I assure you. As a teacher who tries to espouse and model lifelong learning to my students, …
It is early, and we are feeling it. It's on. Unusually cool weather for the opening weekend of chukar season made things more comfortable than normal, if "comfortable" is even legal to use in describing anything related to chukar hunting. Waterdogs We took the boat out on one of the many nearby reservoirs and found …