Candid Cameron: You’ve Got Mail

Candid Cameron: You’ve Got Mail

This week, Cameron the Weimaraner gives a special shout-out to his local UPS delivery woman, Anne, and the wonderful packages (and treats) she brings, especially around his birthday. I will be the first to admit it’s exciting to get mail and packages. When mail comes...
Guns and Loads for Handgun Hunting

Guns and Loads for Handgun Hunting

Hunting with a handgun is challenging, but also great fun. Practice will make you proficient with whatever handgun you choose to use, but here are some tips to get you started. Handgun hunting has long been a passion of mine.  As of late, I have been hunting big game...
The Sportsman’s Code of Hunting Ethics

The Sportsman’s Code of Hunting Ethics

Each of us carries a bit of sport’s future with us every time we set out with a gun or bow, and one critical aspect of ensuring that future is not a bleak one involves ethical behavior. Turkey season here has come and gone. It’s time to recharge my internal batteries,...
Candid Cameron: Not Another Bath

Candid Cameron: Not Another Bath

According to Cameron the Weimaraner, dogs were simply not made to be bathed. Dogs have rules of their own to follow, and bathing isn’t one of them. Rule No. 2 in the dog world is if something on the ground smells bad, you pinpoint the offending odor and roll on...
Sheep Hunting Changed My Life

Sheep Hunting Changed My Life

This hunt was unlike anything I had ever done. Sheep hunting has changed my life — not just the hunting, but the community it has given me. This hunt is so special to me. It was unlike anything I’ve ever done. I have such an appreciation for all of the work that went...
The Hunter-Conservation Paradox

The Hunter-Conservation Paradox

Future generations depend on our ability to communicate that the catchall phrase of “hunters are conservationists” is not so black and white. Politically, I consider myself to be a crunchy conservative. I’m a hip home-birthing momma, right-wing...
Mother Daughter Caribou Hunt

Mother Daughter Caribou Hunt

In retrospect, a mother daughter caribou hunt is more special than I first appreciated… As an Alaskan Hunting Guide, I am obliged to be a trophy oriented hunter for months. But when guiding season ends, my focus changes. My brain switches from Boone & Crockett to...
Portrait of a Poacher

Portrait of a Poacher

A team of diligent agencies and individuals worked together for years to secure the long-awaited guilty plea from Oregon’s serial poacher. Kathy Spengler needed to paint a picture. Not a paint-by-numbers type portrait, but one that had to be closer to a...