Archery Traditions: Crafting Wooden Arrows

Archery Traditions: Crafting Wooden Arrows

Traditional archery has a way of embedding itself irrevocably into one’s psyche, and there are a few folks for whom it goes well beyond shooting or hunting. Grandpa loved to feed his hogs. He would trudge across the narrow tar-and-gravel coal road there in the bottom...
Dove Hunting and the Making of a Sportsman

Dove Hunting and the Making of a Sportsman

Arguably the finest of all the myriad bonuses associated with a dove shoot is taking along a youngster not yet old enough to carry a gun. A late friend of mine, Roy Turner, liked to refer to the opening day of dove season as “Christmas in September.” That description...
The Legend of Trapper Jim

The Legend of Trapper Jim

At Elkhorn Outfitters, there’s a hunting guide, With a full face beard, And a horse to ride.   He isn’t short, And he isn’t slim. But today he’s known As Trapper Jim.   It happened one night In a hunting shack High in the mountains, A range known as Black....
Allen Bolen’s Record-Book Grizzly Hunt

Allen Bolen’s Record-Book Grizzly Hunt

When I prepare for a hunt, I spend time visualizing how it will happen. So, for months leading up to last spring, I pictured a big grizzly calmly feeding at 35 yards and a well-placed arrow striking him from an unidentifiable source. Just how a bear hunt should play...
New York Wildlife Photo Submissions

New York Wildlife Photo Submissions

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation’s Bureau of Wildlife seeks photographs from the public to use in various DEC materials. This includes reports, social media, posters and the New York DEC website. New York’s wildlife is as busy as ever...
Velvet Elk at Poso Creek

Velvet Elk at Poso Creek

A mid-summer fly fishing trip turns into an impromptu elk hunt. There before me stood 80 elk or more, the nearest ones no more than 70 yards away. I love hunting elk! And these elk clearly needed hunting. There were four of them—three cows and one young bull, his...
Home-Cured Honey/Brown Sugar Ham with Blackberry Jam Glaze

Home-Cured Honey/Brown Sugar Ham with Blackberry Jam Glaze

I made the very best ham I have ever tasted and after reading this week’s column, I have absolutely no doubt you can easily accomplish the same. Don’t get the wrong Idea when you read some of my columns that pertain to outdoor cooking. I’m certainly no chef but I...