From One Hunter To Another
I could go on and on; the bill of laden is interminable . . . all the things that can displace or render to anguish a joyful day of hunting or fishing. But it's quibbling over pocket money. Folks who've lived past yesterday will tell you life is unpredictable. But I...
Things Lost and Found – Candid Cameron
While milk cartons (Remember those? They were made of paper, har har!) once featured the faces of lost or missing folks, I know that many people who venture outdoors also lose things — lots of things. The list of things I have discovered, or pointed to so Mike could...
Grizzly Hunt – Fear in Fairyland
Soon I found a path which led me over a deep gouge in a log. I realized, this was a bear path! I'd followed deer trails, but never had I walked a path used only by bears. Roland Burrows turned his boat out to sea and said, "I'll be back tonight at ten.” At...
Meeting Miss Montana – Candid Cameron
Life is full of paths to travel, and recently my path crossed the path of a celebrity — Miss Montana, alias Jessica Criss. Once I looked past her sparkling crown and flowing sash, I noted she was wearing a fur coat (ok, a faux one) but I decided she was worth my time,...
Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole
Drive north from Jackson on Highway 89, into the heart of the National Elk Refuge. If you're alert, if you know it's there and you're looking for it, you might see the museum. On the other hand, you might not, and that's intentional. When my father was stationed in...
New Shotguns – Candid Cameron
Now is the time for you hoomans to look into purchasing new shotguns! Since bird hunting seasons are closed or closing, the demand for shotguns and shotshells has decreased. I think many hoomans are now thinking of vacations on remote sandy beaches and taking a cruise...
William Robinson Leigh – Artist of Enchantment
William R. Leigh ranks with Russell and Remington as one of the great eyewitness artists of the Old West. But his finest works may be of wildlife and sporting subjects. William Robinson Leigh was nearly 40 years old when he traveled to the Southwest in 1906. Disgusted...
Beneath A Snow Moon – First Light
Man ponders by coincidence. Nature knows better. The difference can sometimes be unfathomable. Late December . . . The Maryland Shores. . . Snowfall. . . Mystic, mesmeric, beckoning. Almost eight decades along for this wayfaring, wildfowling warrior — and still, when...
Deadly Botswana Cape Buffalo
The most rarefied air on Earth is the painfully thin atmosphere between you and the malignant stare of a wounded Cape buffalo. The tiny bit of oxygen on the top of Mt. Everest must seem like molasses by comparison. You are connected in a wild, primordial way, as he...
Texas Solutions for Bobwhite Quail Population
About a quarter century ago I shared a quail field near Albany, Georgia, with an aging quail plantation owner who, like me, also enjoyed hunting big game across the American West and beyond. As we walked toward a brace of his pointers that froze simultaneously at the...