It's the winter solstice, four days until Christmas. My fingers are cracked and calloused, my eyes are fried and I'm running on caffeine and hate. This is the life of a bench jeweler in December and I need a break. So, here's the story of my West Virginia bear hunt.
It all started at a...
It's been many years since I've killed a deer with my bow. Come to think of it I haven't killed any big game animal in...five years? Hunting hasn't been great for me lately as work and life have gotten in the way and what little time I did spend hunting was dedicated to making sure my kids and...
I'm 51 years old and just put an order in for a new F150.
I've always bought trucks that were a couple of years old and had a little bit of the warranty left on them. Used to be that you could get them for 25-35% less than new. That was a significant savings on vehicles that weren't even...
I know, you were expecting a seven pound largemouth. Frankly, I don't care if I never catch another largemouth.
This is a yellow bass, and at around 12.5" it's about as big as they generally get. I think the state record is around a pound and a half. My daughter pulled this one out of the...
I heard that the crappie were really being slaughtered at a local lake so a friend and I decided to get in on the action. Saturday we loaded up the boat, bought minnows and headed for the water. Of course we didn't catch a damned thing. Around noon we packed up and headed to a smaller...
I haven't posted here in quite a while. Glad to see not much has changed. It isn't that I didn't like this place, or that I got pissed at someone's comments. It's just that a lot has happened in my life and I haven't had time for online stuff, I haven't had much time for hunting or fishing...
In this thread I'll tell you the secret of turning a trash fish into a great meal.
Step one is to catch a common carp. It isn't difficult in waters where they live. There are all kinds of baits that work (I prefer plain old night crawlers) spearing and archery are a lot of fun too.
Here is a...
I won't be heading west to hunt this year, instead I decided to take my son bear hunting in West Virginia. My wife caught wind of my plans and decided that we hadn't been on a vacation for a couple of years and her and my daughter should go with. I have friends who run hounds in WV and tried...
Set trotlines one last time over the weekend. We weren't sure if we would be able to because the river was so low. Over six inches of rain last week brought the water up a couple of feet making for perfect conditions.
I had to talk my wife and son into going Saturday morning to check lines in...
I took my kids out this weekend to something new. We ran trotlines on the local river. Found a good slough and strung two lines across. Ran them twice a day Saturday and Sunday then pulled them on Monday. We also did some pole fishing. By the end of the weekend we had four flathead and 16...
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gets off damned near scot free.
https://www.parkrecord.com/news/out-of-state-hunter-ordered-to-pay-1500-for-illegally-killing-two-elk-in-summit-county/
As a non-resident his fine was less than the cost of 2 either sex tags in most states.
You might think you are tough, but you've never killed a moose with a bow and arrows you made by hand. Then made a canoe with it's hide and floated a half-frozen river in it.
Some of you probably got in on the thread I posted in the elk hunting forum about my daughter's first elk hunt. This one will be about my son's first antelope hunt. We will be heading to Wyoming tomorrow, to a unit we have hunted several times in the past.
My son has been on a couple of...
My daughter has a youth Muzzle loader tag for Colorado. Lots of firsts for her on this trip:
She's never hunted elk.
She's never been in the Rocky's
She's never hunted with a front loader
She has never been on a backpack hunt.
We're going to pack 2-3 miles into a wilderness area and hunt for...