Zenbivy Light Bed – 10°
I have a difficult time sleeping in traditional sleeping bags and mummy bags are out of the question. Most mornings after a bagged night…
Garmin inReach Mini
For those of you who followed along (literally) during our early upland season, you were able to track all our hunts in real-time thanks…
Blood and Thunder
When I saw that one of the peaks I planned to climb this fall was named for the legendary scout and soldier Kit Carson,…
Ultimate Game Bird Poppers
Poppers seem to top the culinary charts for many hunters. Most recipes combine pepper, cheese and game wrapped in a strip of bacon. Though…
Smoked Pheasant Salad Sliders
I’ve been experimenting with smoking birds to find the best ways to keep the meat from drying out. Wild birds just don’t have the…
Way Upland
It’s the second day of the upland season and I am in a pre-dawn traffic jam. I’m following a string of crimson taillights up…
The Hunting Singularity
The Singularity is a hypothetical future point where self-aware machines run improvement cycles resulting in super-intelligence that is uncontrollable. Basically, humans create machines that…
16 versus 20
In recent years there’s been a resurgence in popularity of 16 gauge shotguns. It’s tough to say exactly how much impact it has had…
Bird Dog Dealing with Lar Par
I’m not sure I can say “Laryngeal Paralysis” once correctly, let alone three times quickly — it’s a tongue twister. It has also been…
Unspoken Alliances
A number of years ago I was riding shotgun pre-dawn on opening day in Kansas. My buddy was behind the wheel as we chugged…