Time And Place: Spring Bear Hunts
March and April are weird months for me in general. Nothing going on, really. Bird season is over and I’m fresh off our annual javelina hunt. Most days, it’s usually…
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Growing Up Fly Fishing
I’m a lucky guy for a lot of reasons. One of the most important ones, to me, is that I grew up in a family that loves the outdoors. That…
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Hooking a Lunker
You may know that wonderful feeling when first viewing a valley that is so beautiful it almost takes your breath away. That is how I felt when I first laid…
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A Javelina Safari
I’ve written previously about my love for bombing around the bajadas of the Sonoran desert in a clapped-out old Toyota in pursuit of the mysterious and, thankfully, largely under-appreciated skunk…
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High Country Deer in Nowhere, Nevada
I made my first camp at the trailhead 100 yards from an abandoned mining cabin in the national forest. It was a beautiful Great Basin Halloween night as the flicker…
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The AH Fox Sterlingworth – America’s Scattergun
The Ford V-8. The Dust Bowl. Hiroshima and the atom bomb. The birth of rock and roll and the death of The King. Vietnam. Watergate. Punk rock. Desert storm.The dot-com…
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Golden Years in the Chukar Hills
It’s common knowledge among avid upland hunters that game birds follow boom-or-bust cycles that are largely dependent on the habitat and climatic conditions in their home range. You can add…
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If I Have To Explain It…
When I let slip to the uninitiated that the hunt I look forward to the most each year is rifle javelina in February, they usually look at me with a…
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The Silver State Sage Grouse Season
I had been looking forward to the limited sage grouse season all year. NDOW had closed orreduced most of the sage-grouse seasons in the Silver State this year, and with…
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Great Basin Dinosaurs – The Greater Sage Grouse
It was eighteen degrees outside and five-something in the morning when we pulled up to a clearing in the sagebrush, joined by a dozen feral horses clattering over the sidehills…
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