Category Archives: Outdoor Sports
Cocker Spaniels
The other day my wife played bridge with a woman who brought along a Cocker spaniel. She said it was a service dog. When my wife asked what kind of service a Cocker spaniel could provide, the woman said the dog was trained to pick things up off the floor for its owner. You know, …
Bill Mauldin
I said this blog would be about outdoor sports. Well, world war two was mostly fought outdoors so it qualifies. When I read Bill Mauldin’s “Up Front” at the tender age of nine I knew I had to become a cartoonist. After all, I was qualified: I was a smartass and I liked to draw. …
The Return Of Bambi
Remember the classic Disney movie Bambi that we all saw when we were kids? If memory serves me correctly the cruel hunters shot Bambi’s mom. Normal kids were horrified but personally I thought the bitch had it coming. This little clip is from my book Antlers Away, available on Amazon.com or you can order one …
Orvis and Bead Head
Remember Beavis and Butt Head? Could you identify with them? Me neither, but I thought they were funny in a junior high school sort of way. Maybe I would’ve liked them even more if they had been fly fishermen… like Orvis and Bead Head.
A New Year’s Eve Celebration
Scott Morgan and friends celebrated New Year’s Eve flat on their backs in layout blinds in a field near Baldwin City, KS. Using only fourteen shell decoys, they had hundreds of Canadas checking them out all afternoon. Conscientious hunters that they are, Scott said they could easily have limited out but didn’t want to clean …
Lone Oak Duck Club
Good opening weekend at the Lone Oak Duck Club, then tapering off. Now we’re iced up but hopefully not for long thanks to climate change. This cold weather should bring new birds down from up north (or push the ones that are here on down south). We’ll see what the rest of the season brings. …
Oh deer!
Even though I don’t deer hunt in Missouri anymore I think it’s fun to play with my Bushnell trail cam just to see what’s sneaking around our Bates County property at night. I keep hoping I’ll catch something exotic like a mountain lion or bear, but this eight point buck will have to do for …
It’s Tweener Time
Once again it’s Tweener Time when we are treated to one of those cartoons that’s too raunchy for outdoor magazines but too outdoorsy for Playboy. The full moon that occurs in the fall is often referred to as a harvest moon or hunter’s moon. Maybe if I redraw this and put undershorts on the guy …
Rockbridge Trout Ranch
Want to feel like you’re a real hot stuff trout fisherman? Spend a few days at Rockbridge Trout Ranch in southern Missouri. Nice people, beautiful scenery, comfortable accommodations, and millions of huge, hungry rainbows finning lazily in the clear water, hoping somebody will throw them a woollybugger or zebra midge. But you’d better use 6X …