Buffalo Phez Mac N Cheez
Came up with this recipe while we were hunting in the late season and pulled it together for a camp dinner. That initial round…
Pheasant Hunting
The Last Bird: Living in the Upland Death Spiral
Most of the upland birds around here vanished during the Storm of the Century that dumped 30 inches of snow atop a base of…
Don’t Yell Rooster, Save Lives
There’s a tradition shared among many fledgling pheasant hunters of marching across fields in long ranks. The fresh blaze-clad neophytes evenly spaced so that…
Tough Old Rooster Cakes
How do you know when you’ve harvested a three-year-old rooster? When you have to chew it until the next season to swallow it. Tough old…
Grilled Pheasant + Mojo Sauce
This spatchcocked, grilled pheasant is probably one of the more satisfying meals I have made with wild game to date. The crispy skin is…
Depths of Cold
There seems no bottom to the depths of cold. It’s one of the few solace for hunting in frigid condition: could be colder, windier,…
Inroads
We’ve been coming to this area of the grain belt for over 20 years. It took the locals at least seven of those to…
Hunting in the Shadow of Roosevelt
When I hunt in North Dakota, my thoughts often drift to Teddy Roosevelt’s days at Elkhorn Ranch — He named his Dakota home for…
Hunting the Polar Vortex
The first half of the 2014 Upland Season is over and it’s been a whirlwind of travel all across the country. But this last…
Bird Hunting Amid Spun Tales
Every year in Kansas we hear funny stories about birds and hunting. Maybe it was the full moon, the start of the whitetail rut…