Made it out yesterday for the first time since spraining my ankle on December 2. Leslie came along for the hike and to take video and photos. We decided to try a place I hunted a decade ago in the Owyhees. Long drive, but it was nice to revisit some of that terrain, and we …
Cabela’s Ripstop Chest Protector review
Serious bird hunters: how many minutes of your life have you spent pulling and cutting cockle-burrs out of your partner's hair (I'm talking about your dog)? As a Brittany fan, I can say I've spent my share of time getting my dogs back to Ground Zero after a day in the weeds. Angus is a …
Benelli Ultra Light 12-Gauge Shotgun review
I'm not a spring chicken but I'm not dead yet, either. Still, I find lugging a heavy over-under up 2,000 feet of 60% slopes all day a pain in the butt. And the arm, and shoulder. I lift weights and try to keep a little strength going on in this aging body, but my gun …
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Recovering?
I'm nearly giddy with happiness after hiking today. For the first time since I sprained my ankle I was able to hike, much of it off-trail and on some steep side-hill stuff, wearing my new boots (review to come). It's been five weeks, and it's still nowhere near "good-as-new," but today was the first sense …
Down Time
Not being able to hunt because of my sprained ankle has afforded me the unwanted leisure of thinking about chukar hunting more than doing it. But I thought I'd share some of the thoughts just because it's the next best thing to being on the hill with Angus. Imagining Whenever I drive anywhere near hilly …
Bad Day
The only kind of bad day hunting chukar: hurt yourself when you're alone and can't get any help. Don't do this at home or anywhere else!
Best Day Ever
Our first limit Angus was phenomenal today, and I was even better. He found lots of birds but not more than normal. And I actually hit everything today, which was very abnormal. I went with my friend Dan, who has a young, amazingly energetic springer spaniel (Kacie), who seems never to stop moving at full …
Chukar hunting with Angus
Angus and I headed to the hills yesterday to see if we could find some chukar. These birds live in steep, rocky, hard to reach places. It is always a workout, and those who hunt chukar regularly are obsessed with it, and in very good physical condition. And their feet usually hurt because of the …
Last Train to Clarksville
I was on the treadmill at the YMCA today and this song came on my Shuffle. For some reason it hit me like a ton of bricks. Why? I'd heard Cassandra Wilson's cover before, but never in inescapable circumstances like this. Earphones. Long stretch of time ahead. Getting nailed by music has always been a …
Running with dogs
[Going through the early days of this blog, I found a bunch of posts that never got published for some reason, so I thought, "Why not?" This one's from 7/23/2010] Angus running free In my oh so valiant effort to "stay fit" (an exaggeration of what really is a vain, terror-filled, half-assed attempt to keep …