We took a trip to a beautiful canyon. The hike was a tough one for kids and anyone not accustomed to pushing their bodies hard. We decided to take this two day trip after the Yukon was hit by a horse trailer on the way to Canada, and the diesel Read more…
Yearly trips. We have a few. They morph and change over the years. All except one. We have been traveling to Northern Saskatchewan now since the year we were married . Erik started going years before that, even. This year our good friend Geoff, the Kiwi, joined us for the Read more…
Last spring Gannett was able to harvest two mature toms. But not without a bit of a hiccup! His first tom of the spring he made a perfect shot (after which all of us got a tom and we went home with a quadruple on toms)! The next hunt he Read more…
Pheasant hunting a game farm can bring snide comments about birds with blinders, tame birds and easy hunting. But it is, in my opinion, quite the same as hunting wild birds. Farm birds jump wild and run like mad. There are no gimmies in this game. You cannot simply run Read more…
It’s a good day of hunting when you are heavy laden with more than an hour to go.
We hunted scratch birds only today. It was fun but with the snow and all the recent below zero weather, no one had been out since last weekend so there were very few birds. We got a hen as soon as we got into section A but then only saw Read more…
Another weekend in the beautiful Black Hills! Our good friend Gary came along this trip hoping to fill the freezer and enjoy God’s country with us. It was a wholly different weekend than the last. The temperatures were at and below freezing and snow fell all day Saturday and heavy Read more…
wo great things about antelope hunting: not to difficult to fill the freezer and it is a simple hunt for bringing kids along! We grabbed a pizza on our way out of town Friday night and made it to the area by 7:30. Michelle and the kids worked on setting Read more…
This backpacking trip was a 9 mile trek from the truck to our base camp. We entered the wilderness Friday at 1pm. Besides Scout, Gordon (79 1/2) and Chad joined us. We were fortunate to have cool cloudy weather on the way in to this area. We hiked for 2 Read more…
We headed up to Dubois to go fly-fishing for big cutthroats. We took Gordon and Scout with us this trip. We got to the lake on Wednesday evening, in time to fish for a couple hours before dark. Erik got into several good fish when he first got into the Read more…