Not just for the birds
Unmerited favor. I've gotten out quite a bit so far this season. The weather's been good. We recently took a trip to what -- in years past -- had been the best place I'd ever hunted chukar, for many reasons. We'd looked forward to it for nearly a year. But for whatever reason the hunting …
[I just found this in my "Drafts" folder. It's from two years ago when we were still looking for a place back in chukar country to move to. I thought I'd posted it but for some reason didn't, probably related to a family emergency that, along with the person it centered on, passed about a …
Just got home from a great week hunting chukar in Oregon. We were blessed with mostly good weather, and my shooting actually seemed to get better. Imagine that. To be honest, I'd switched from the #7 steel Rio shells (1-1/8 ounce, 1350 fps) that were sent to me in error last season (I'd ordered #6, …
"Will you go to lunch." -- Kevin Spacey as Williamson, Glengarry Glen Ross "If others have their will Ann hath a way." -- James Joyce, Ulysses "Jem and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction..." Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird "The will to live, which forms the inmost core of every living being, …
Our little burg has a "town square" group on Facebook. Notices of dogs running loose, accompanied by blurry photos, is probably its most common theme. Often, follow-up posts report that the mystery dog's owner has been found and that the dog has returned safely to its home. Very occasionally, as happened yesterday, someone reports a …