The Magic Hour

The Magic Hour

The sun is setting on a brilliant hunting career. Though his big game hunting bag isn’t particularly mixed, it is well stocked. A couple of pronghorn antelope, one empty elk tag. Maybe a hundred deer across a forty-year career, many of which were bagged when...
Whitetail Hunting in 1810

Whitetail Hunting in 1810

This comes from the final portion of Chapter 6 in Forty-Four Years in the Life of a Hunter (1859) and captures the author’s activities when at the height of his considerable hunting powers.  Shortly after returning to my home, three hunters and myself agreed to go to...
Tails, You Lose!

Tails, You Lose!

“Sometimes I dearly hate whitetails!” My humbled, mumbled comment brought a snicker from my hunting partner, J. Wayne Fears. I was glad it was only a small laugh and my friend had recovered a bit. Only moments before he had been laughing so hard I thought he might...
Braden’s Buck

Braden’s Buck

The author’s nephew killed his first white-tailed buck in October, and neither of them will ever forget it.