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March 30, 2010 by
You’re chasing a 180-pound mountain lion, but instead of sticking in the tree, growling at the baying hounds beneath him, the tom leaps from the pine and bounds over the hill.
No big deal. That happens when you’re hunting mountain lions, but this particular tom holes up in the adit of an abandoned mine.
[ Read Full Post ] March 29, 2010 by
According to the Associated Press, Pennsylvania police last week charged 55-year-old Donald Wolfe, of Brookville with public drunkenness after several witnesses saw him trying to resuscitate a long-dead possum on the side of the road.
What the…!?! Just how drunk do you have to be before you think that giving mouth-to-mouth to a flattened rat is a good idea?! What had Wolfe been drinking? Moonshine? Gasoline?
[ Read Full Post ] March 27, 2010 by
Gayne talks with the famous and not so famous from the outdoor world. It’s ten minutes of their life they’ll never get back.
Richard Sanders is owner of Tiffin Hill Marketing Communications, a company that represents Russell Moccasins, Texas Hunt Company, and many other outdoor companies.
Q: Hey Richard, understand you just got a knee replacement. Howd that go? You get some good drugs?
A: Knee is doing great after only 12 days. As for good drugs—not really. They told me they were going to be divine but when all was said and done and they ripped my jar of morphine away from me as I was checking out of the surgical ward after having been there less than 24 hours, the good drugs ceased. The good Doctor sent me home with some placebo called Vicodin—which is nothing more than Tylenol and a mild pain reliever. It didn't work. At all! Scotch, I found, in large quantities, was far more effective.
[ Read Full Post ] March 25, 2010 by
Gayne talks with the famous and not so famous from the outdoor world. It’s 10 minutes of their life they’ll never get back.
Colorado Buck
Colorado Buck is host and producer of “Where in the World is Colorado Buck,” “Just About Land,” and “The Outfitter.”
Q. Colorado is a unique first name. What’s the worst state or states your parent’s could have named you after?
A. Massachusetts I guess. Or maybe Rhode Island.
[ Read Full Post ] March 23, 2010 by
I had been hunting the South Africa – Botswana border for almost five days. In that short amount of time I had managed to take both a trophy waterbuck and zebra. I had eaten great meals, partoken of many fine wines, and slammed enough Castle Light beer to float a personal watercraft. Additionally I had made a new friend of my professional hunter, Eric Sojour.
[ Read Full Post ] March 19, 2010 by
The wolves that apparently killed schoolteacher Candice Berner on a lonely gravel road in rural Alaska last week were not rabid, a preliminary lab analysis has determined.
If the wolves are also found to be free of distemper, it would mean Berner’s death is just the second time in recorded North American history that a humanhas been killed by healthy wolves.
[ Read Full Post ] March 15, 2010 by
Alaskan hunters continued to search the bush outside the tiny Alaskan peninsula town of Chignik for a wolf pack that is thought to have killed 32-year-old schoolteacher Candice Berner.
But preliminary indications are that the woman, who was reportedly out for a jog, was killed by wolves and then dragged off a gravel road leading to the town’s airstrip. That’s the early word (www.adn.com/2010/03/09/1175725/wolf-blamed-in-death-of-villager.html?story_link=email_msg), reported by the Anchorage Daily News. Chignik is located about 475 miles southwest of Anchorage.
[ Read Full Post ] March 12, 2010 by
Finally, some sensible talk about bear management in New Jersey. Five years after the state closed its successful bear hunt, New Jersey’s game commission has recommended a fall season to control what is probably the most successful bear population in the nation.
[ Read Full Post ] March 10, 2010 by
I know this blog occasionally sounds like it should be renamed Wolf Hunting with Andrew McKean. If it’s a bit too wolf-heavy for you, my apologies. We’ll get to other discussions soon.
But there is no greater topic that affects all aspects of hunting in the West right now than wolves. Not habitat issues. Not access. Wolves have polarized the public. They have challenged wildlife managers. And they have galvanized hunters.
[ Read Full Post ] March 5, 2010 by
This just in from the Interior Department: Sage grouse populations in the West probably warrant listing as a federally endangered species, but there are other critters in worse shape.
That’s the upshot of this afternoon’s announcement by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar that had sportsmen, ranchers and land managers from the Dakotas to Nevada holding their breath.
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