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Several bloggers on Outdoorlife.com have weighed in over the past week or so with their New Year’s resolutions. And what noble declarations they have been.
Dear friend and OL…
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So we occasionally get these requests from the powers that be at Skinny Moose to pitch in ideas or comments on a topic. Yesterday we were referred to a gentleman from Delaware who was trying to create his own list and wanted to solicit ideas from other hunters and outdoor writers. Since I [...]
Go to The 10 Most Significant Hunting Advancements or Inventions of the Last DecadeI can’t believe it’s the end of 2009 already. And then, once I really started to think about it, I realized that today closes out, not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade. Crazy!
This decade has kind of been a tough one. Personally it’s been pretty good for me, but [...]
I was dating a woman who was a lawyer, and I attended some lawyer event where their group sat in the corner of a downtown bar with lots of mirrors, chandeliers, and grossly overpriced drinks. A woman was walking down an open staircase that led to where our group was standing, and she lost [...]
Go to Moose Head Falls on Woman, Ruins Her New YearRemember that Best Job in the World Contest? The winner would become caretaker of a private island in Australia for six months and collect a salary of $103,000 (AUS). The whole thing was perpetrated by the Australian Tourism Board, who hadn’t hit a publicity homerun like this contest since Crocodile Dundee. Well that great [...]
Go to Best Job in the World Contest Winner Nearly Dies on the JobI didn’t know what else to call yesterday other than a nasty, muddy, wet swamp hunt. My neighbor, another buddy, and I headed down to central Alabama for a day of hunting deer and hogs.
I had a doe with 2 fawns come by my stand at daylight but I let them pass in hopes of [...]
Hunted a small field in a 3-way funnel on Monday evening out of a ground blind that I packed in on my back.
Looking up a roadbed.
And looking over my shooting sticks into the 1-acre food plot.
It was almost dark before a group of does and fawns fed through. No antlers to be seen although my [...]
Sitting back in some thinned pines bordering a strip of field leading to a food plot.
Had this unbelievable trail coming out right underneath me.
At 3:15 p.m., I heard a twig snap and looked behind me to see this buck slipping through about 100 yards below me. He worked close enough for me to snap this [...]
I refer to Col. Robert L. Howard, of Waco TX. Special Forces, five tours in Vietnam, eight purple hearts, a Medal of Honor, and two more nominations for that which instead got him a Distinguished Service Cross and a Silver…
Go to Passing of a genuinely heroic figureHubby and I at Jack London Square in Oakland, CaliforniaChristmas 2009(so glad my little sis stole my camera for awhile!)
Go to Looking AheadPdf is here. Reading it now. Thoughts after a quick read: stylistically, well-written. The argument against due process incorporation involves taking what the Court has said and not what the Court has done. The Court has said that “fundamental rights”…
Go to Chicago’s brief is onlineGenerally speaking, it’s a shame we can’t–in the words of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson–take the past decade, pound it into a goddamn bottle, and set it adrift in the China current. But in the…
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From UPI.com
Joel Borden . . . said the deer stumbled into his yard with a gunshot wound in its neck Saturday morning. . . .
“I killed it with a stick,” Borden said. “My friends are making a big…
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Go to Georgia Man In Boxers Kills Buck With A StickBeing the Luddite I am the thought of strapping more electronics around my dog’s neck makes me wonder if they are GSPs or F-16s. A few gents this past season had some infernal contraptions around their dogs’ necks to make…
Go to Gun Dogs: Tracking BellsIn the last two weeks a personal locator beacon has sent Colorado’s Alpine Rescue Team into a frenzy only to be deactivated once they commence their search. The ACR PLB-300 MicrOFix is an older model that doesn’t include a GPS locator, so the searchers only know that someone’s has set one off within a [...]
Go to Personal Locator Beacon False Alarms on Berthoud PassWow. So here we stand, not only at the end of another year, but at the turning of the first decade of the 21st century. It seems a little momentous, even if I can’t quite put my finger on why.
Maybe it’s because the new year always brings the promise of change, of challenges and rewards. [...]
I can’t really say that these are my “best of” 2009, but I did review all of last year’s posts and try to pick out some that were the “best” and some that were the “biggest stories” and some that were just the most interesting for that particular month. There are some good ones here, [...]
Go to Notable Posts of 2009Bible Study Verse
Genesis 45:4-5
So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.” [...]
Right on schedule, animal rights groups, environmentalists and anti-hunting groups are lining up in opposition to coyote hunting in Maine and more specifically the current coyote tournament sponsored by the Jackman-Moose River Chamber of Commerce. 6 hunters have enrolled and have killed one coyote since it began Dec. 16.
But what’s really at stake here [...]
Add one more state to the list of those filing a Firearms Freedom Act bill – HB69.
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So Albert over at The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles has recently turned up again… In Afghanistan! Take a look at his pictures and follow along as he brings us his thoughts and stories.
Go to Like a Bad PennyAs the year draws to an end it’s natural for us to look back on the year that was as well as to look forward at what the New Year will bring. There has been a lot of turmoil this past year with wildlife issues in North Carolina and probably better described as a [...]
Go to Another Year Another MilestoneGame and Fish to step up efforts to enforce OHV Decal compliance
Low participation is hurting program goals and benefits to recreationists
Citing statistics showing that less than one-quarter of off-highway vehicles in Arizona have the required OHV Decal, Arizona Game and Fish Department Director Larry Voyles announced that the agency’s officers would be stepping up [...]
OK, so I spend a good bit of time trying to defend hunters and our actions, both on this site and off of it. I work hard to explain to non-hunters that there’s so much more to hunting than killing stuff, and that most hunters actually live by a pretty strict sense of ethics. I [...]
Go to Fiasco in Washington StateHere are the Winners for the Mostly Archery and Up North Journal Game Camera Photo Contest.
There were a lot of great entries and choosing a winner was not easy for Mikey or myself. Thank you to all who participated. I’ll be contacting the winners for shipping information.
First Place and winner of the custom dustyvarmint woodworks turkey call [...]
The American Association of Law Schools is holding its annual meeting in New Orleans in early January. In conjunction with that, Don Kates and the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund are presenting a two day seminar on the right to…
Go to Upcoming legal conference on the right to armsAt first you think “Ho hum – some elk crossing a road”. The thing is, they keep coming and coming and coming. Very cool video originally posted by my friend Dan over on the AHT Forums. Dan posted:
My Mom recently sent me this in an email. Pretty awesome to watch. Here’s the message that’s being [...]
A church in Canada is being turned into a rock climbing gym. This is the second church I’ve seen converted into a rock gym; I guess the high ceilings and low sales prices make them attractive. I’m not sure how future civilizations will judge us when their archeologists discover we converted churches to synthetic [...]
Go to Converting Churches to Climbing GymsCritics are insisting that the Storybook Wolf photo by Jose Luis Rodriguez is a shot of tame wolf, making it ineligible to win the world’s largest nature photo competition. Judges give preference to wild animals, so if a tame animal is used in a staged photo, the photographer must declare it prior judging. Rodriguez [...]
Go to Fake! (Maybe) Nature Photograph of the Year’s Authenticity QuestionedThe week between Christmas and New Years (in my humble opinion), is a blank void that seems to stretch for weeks. I’m sure others have found a meaningful and time worthy purpose for these 7 days, but I just feel a dull space before the clean slate of a new year. With nothing better to do than count the [...]