Not just for the birds
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 …
Not a great spot for chukar Angus doubting this is a good spot for chukar [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 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 …
Eyes, movement, trust [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 …