Every year hunting apparel manufacturers bring out at least one new camouflage pattern. Pity the poor soul who shows up at hunting camp sporting last year’s pattern. And if you’re seen wearing the original old government issue brown-over-more-brown pattern…well…turn in your man card and go play jumprope with the girls. This story was published …
Category Archives: Humor
One-Armed Retriever Training
I had just started writing and illustrating The Sporting Life column for Wyoming Wildlife News. My new Lab pup Maggie was ready to be trained. I was recovering from rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder so throwing training dummies for her was out. That’s how I came up with one-armed retriever training…indoor version.
Game On
This Fowl Thoughts column is from the November 2012 issue of Wildfowl. I couldn’t have written it without lots of help from the younger members of my family. Click on the text to enlarge it.
Rich Man, Poor Man
In 2012 I was writing columns for two publications: Wildfowl magazine and Wyoming Wildlife News. It kept me so busy I hardly had time to hunt and fish. The Wildfowl page was called Fowl Thoughts. Here’s the column from the September 2012 issue. Click on the text to enlarge it.
Urban trail cam
Urban trail cam photos aren’t nearly as interesting as rural ones. No deer mugging for the camera, no turkeys, no raccoons. We just have to go with what we’ve got. In this case it’s a neighbor’s cat. I’m still hoping for a possum or a marauding cougar (the 4-legged kind)…but I’m not holding my breath. …
Once again life imitates art
My friend Scott’s trail cam photo of a deer answering the call of nature brings to mind my recent cartoon in the September/October issue of On Wisconsin Outdoors. This poor old doe couldn’t even take a leak in private!
A Bionic Pheasant Hunt
This story was originally published in the Winter 2017 issue of Pheasants Forever Journal. It was barely dawn when Bob pulled my truck off to the side of the road. We had left home before daylight so I let Bob drive because he can see better in the dark than I can. He’s had …
Build it and they will come
This story was first published in the 2005 November/December issue of Wyoming Wildlife News Let’s get one thing straight right now: building a duck blind is nothing like an ordinary carpentry project. You can’t learn skills like this from a book. They are handed down from father to son, uncle to nephew, or old duck hunter …
WOW
This story was first published in the September 2006 issue of Wildfowl magazine. “What is it with these places, anyway?” I asked as we got we got into our car. My wife and I had been visiting my mother-in-law at a retirement home. “What do you mean?” “They’re all so… well… feminine.” I nudged …
Just One Of The Guys
This story from the September 2008 issue of Wildfowl Magazine was awarded 1st place in the 2009 Magazine Humor category of the OWAA Excellence In Craft Contest. I first noticed a difference in Bob the day I rode with him in his pickup truck to a big sporting goods store to take advantage of a preseason sale. Bob …