Three tags filled and one left. I was sitting on my tailgate in front of my uncle’s tobacco barn in Montgomery County, Tenn., as we looked at the three Tennessee toms laying on the ground. The hunt had been a dandy and like the year before while hunting my uncle’s farm I had bummed my…
Leaving my stand for the last time of the 2017-2018 deer season I started my last trek off the ridge, the leaves and soil underneath were slippery due to a recent short-lived snowfall and I lost my footing. As I started to fall I instinctively pulled my hand away from the trigger and held my…
The winter months without a doubt limit the time that one would like to spend fishing. A person who loves to fish not only has to do battle with the elements in the form of low temperatures and snow and ice, but also with all the traditional customs that the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays demand….
As a young boy, my parents had a small amount of acreage in Newton County in the Racine area where I would hunt rabbits and squirrels with a .22 rifle. At that time I knew of no one that hunted deer. And I had never seen one in that area. So deer hunting had never…
Waterfowl hunts always have the potential to become exciting. On the other hand, if the birds are not flying they can be as boring as hunting can get. When you do have targets and there are several hunters in the blind, things can get interesting. So it was last January for me and my buddies…
