Dreams of Duxbak Days

Dreams of Duxbak Days

There’s wisdom aplenty in his words, and as I become increasingly long of tooth and sparse of hackle fond memories of youth’s halcyon days seem to grow in importance. That’s a common human trait and likely always will be. Most of these dreams of yester-youth are...
The Day the Duck Hunters Died

The Day the Duck Hunters Died

Nothing escaped the “winds of hell” and the deadly, suffocating snows that swept across the Upper Midwest on that fateful day in 1940.

The Winter Woods

The Winter Woods

Sitting in the cold winter woods with ear and eye continually scanning the surroundings, the sights and sounds of nature is my idea of perfect entertainment. For one who spends time outdoors through all the seasons in pursuit of fish and game and the simple elation of...
The Cruelest Month

The Cruelest Month

Despite the viciousness of New England’s winter, there are occasionally days when trap and skeet shooters can burn some serious powder at the range.

Safety Tips for an Icy Waterfowl Season

Safety Tips for an Icy Waterfowl Season

With waterfowl hunting season in full swing, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is urging hunters to always handle guns safely and be careful in all situations. Waterfowl hunters who use watercraft must be especially careful. The tragic drowning of a young hunter in November...
A Chance of Frost

A Chance of Frost

Deep within his soul, he needed the marsh and its ducks, perhaps now more than ever. “Come duck hunting with me.” “What?” she asked as if she must have misheard him. “Come duck hunting with me.” Now Terri was no foreigner to hunting. She...
Savage Santa

Savage Santa

‘Twas the night before Christmas in the old cabin, and the two trappers had just settled in when what to their wandering eyes should appear… “Talkin’ about Christmas,” said Bedrock, as we smoked in his cabin after supper, an’ the...