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Blog Post BY ON October 23, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
A stage of life that's real
For true sportsmen, killing is not done out a want for blood and hunting and fishing is not pursued out of a desire to hurt or maim. For them, for me, it is done out of a need to be part of the process. The way I reason it, the more the world fabricates itself out of phony plastics and digital [ READ MORE... ]
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Blog Post BY ON October 17, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Frost Warning
Editor’s note: This is part of an ongoing series by members of TU’s Sportsmen’s Conservation Project. For more, visit www.oursportingheritage.org, a site dedicated to protecting our backcountry resources.
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Blog Post BY ON October 17, 2012 - 2 COMMENTS
Frost Warning
The weatherman kept going on about temps dipping below freezing and tomatoes in peril. I couldn’t blame him; after a couple months without rain, he was excited to give a forecast that didn’t include the word “drought.” I listened intently, not because I was worried about tomatoes (I gave up on [ READ MORE... ]
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Blog Post BY ON October 15, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Somewhere this duo should be smiling
By Tom Reed
I’ve been thinking about two of my friends lately. Both of them have been gone for a while. I miss them. But I remember them and, perhaps more importantly, there’s a place in Wyoming that will remain forever wild because of them.
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Blog Post BY ON October 11, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Elk hunting for Chukar
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Blog Post BY ON October 11, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Elk Hunting for Chukar
I’ve busted my trusty 870, been bitten my a rattlesnake, blistered the hell out of my heels, froze my butt off and broiled in the heat all while hunting these things. I’ve also walked into a covey of about 100 birds emptied my gun reloaded and emptied it again and hit my limit for the day. I’ve [ READ MORE... ]
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Blog Post BY ON October 10, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
The Feather Dance
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Blog Post BY ON October 10, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Searching
While the dogs stretch and drink, I roll and tie the bed roll and splash water on my face. There's no time for coffee this morning. I'm in a rush to explore this place in the best way I know how, shotgun in hand, trailing a young bird dog.
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Blog Post BY ON October 10, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
The apprentice They call him “The Apprentice” because he has been my personal assistant for all things hunting and fishing since he was knee high to a Shetland pony. He went on his first elk hunt when he was not quite six months old, wearing his first snowsuit and riding on mom’s back as we packed three elk off a [ READ MORE... ]
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Blog Post BY ON October 10, 2012 - 0 COMMENTS
Legislation that works: The Wyoming Range Legacy Act
Last week we were pleased to hear about the Trust for Public Lands buying out 58,000 acres of oil and gas leases from Plains Exploration and Production Co. in the Wyoming Range, a unique swath of land in western Wyoming, home to irreplaceable big game herds, native fish and the irreplaceable type [ READ MORE... ]
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