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…
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…
DAY 1: We are fishing this year with our good friends Randy and Dawn Larson, along with 3 of their kids (Josh, Jeremiah and Chance). We left Casper Saturday morning and arrived at Jan around Noon Sunday, May 30th. What a cold day!!! About an hour from our destination we Read more…
We made plans with the Larsons to take a trip to Fish Lake together. After Church Sunday the 28th, we loaded our final items in the camper and drove to PV to pick them up. By 2:00 we were on the road to Dubois. We made it to our camp Read more…
4 am is early! We picked Erik’s dad Gordon up at 4:30 and left Casper, bound for the Middle Fork of the Powder River near Kaycee. We arrived at our destination just in time for the sun to be high enough to keep us warm in the deep canyon. The Read more…
Just enough time to recoup at home and we are off again. We picked up Chad and left for Glendo around 3:15pm. We were fishing our spot in Muddy by 5. The bite was slow and it was HOT(92º). After only a few minutes the wind came up quite strong, Read more…