One of the most difficult things for a man to endure is the loss of a hunting partner and great friend. I suppose though, if we have no understanding of pain and loss, adversely we will have no appreciation of happiness and good fortune. Tammy left us a few days ago, fifteen years after she entered
Many sportsmen view the summer as a down time without a large amount of significance to their hunting plans. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. How you conduct yourself this summer will go a long way toward making that hunt of a lifetime a success or a failure. I can’t stress how important conditioning
Proper care of your trophy is really the final step in a successful hunt. When you invest your time and hard earned money into a particular animal no one can blame you for wanting to preserve the memory and give that monster whitetail or sable a place of honor in your trophy room. If you want premium
Grizzly encounters are normal in Alaska. Thankfully most of them end in a calm fashion. Most grizz don’t want a confrontation and will inevitably head in the opposite direction once they deduce you are a human being. The encounters that we read about in the papers are few and far between, mostly resulting from confrontations
Why do we hunt? It’s an age old question that can’t be answered in a single sentence. Sure there’s the instinctual drive that man has possessed ever since he decided to get up off his knuckles and run a woolly mammoth off a cliff. The cave man who came back to the village with enough
The opportunity to hunt bear in the spring is something I look forward to every year. It’s a chance to shake off the affects of old man winter and roam the mountains where the new growth and promise of spring time abound. There are three basic ways to hunt bear here in Idaho, all having
Getting lost while we’re hunting, however rare, should be a important subject to every hunter! It can happen in the Eastern hardwoods while chasing after whitetail, the Western Rockies while hunting for Idaho Elk Hunts or Alaska while in quest of moose, sheep or caribou. What makes this subject so important is obviously the fatal repercussions
Probably the toughest game animal to judge in the field is a bear. Most antlered and horned game, with experience, a hunter can become farley proficient at judging but when it comes to bears even the most experienced hunter can make a mistake. One thing that will always hold true with black bears, whether you
We actually got some snow here today! Its about time winter comes to Idaho. The hound dogs are itchin’ to get off the chain so we’ll have to take em out and see if we can’t get some good done. Idaho Mountain Lion Hunts out west with hounds is an experience vastly different than most
September is a magical time in Alaska. It’s at this time that the Dall sheep remains high in his craggy home, surrounded by a bachelor group of rams. These rams won’t separate to search for ewes until November. So for now they are content to bask in the sunshine when they can and gorge themselves on lichens and forbs. They will require all the energy they are conserving for the harsh months ahead.
As the last few crimson hues of sunshine melted behind a thick curtain of spruce on the distant horizon, I allowed myself for the first time to contemplate what was now becoming an all too real possibility. The possibility that after years of planning and preparation, after countless hours of daydreaming and sleepless nights, that
