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Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 15: Wild Duck
The page after the softshell is chipped on one edge, and the corner itself is gone, torn away years back like somebody needed a clean place to wipe a…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 14: Soft-Shell Turtle
The page after the gar is the last one I pulled out before I set the folder down for the night, and it nearly stopped the whole thing. The edges are …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The First Deer I Killed Was Shot by Mistake, and It Took Me Six Years to Understand Why
The first deer I ever killed was shot by mistake. I don’t mean I pulled the trigger on accident and hit him. I mean I was twelve years old, sitting i…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
You Cross a Country of Alkali Flats Where the Only Water for Forty Miles Tastes Like Soap.
You wake because your tongue has gone thick and your head is splitting behind the eyes. It is late July, 1849, somewhere on the alkali flats west of …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Best Cut of Deer Spent Ten Years in the Gut Pile
For the first ten years I killed deer, I threw the heart in the gut pile. Not out of disrespect. Out of habit, and out of a lazy little voice that sa…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Last Light Is a Bad Time to Start Guessing
The shot was legal for about four more minutes, and I knew it. I had been watching the light die through the scope for half an hour, the way the cros…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 13: Gar
The page after the coot was the first clean sheet in the whole folder, no grease, no burn, no stain of anything. But the paper was thin, and when I t…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Great-Grandfather’s Leather Folder, Recipe No. 12: Coot
The page after the old hen had a corner burned clean off, the char running halfway down the margin and taking the first line with it. What was left n…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Bow Does Not Hold Steady Under Sixty-One Pounds
The scale said sixty-one pounds and I remember thinking that sounded about right, which should tell you everything you need to know about the kind of…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Nine Skunks on One Lake, Same Guy on the Bank
I used to keep a little tally in the notes app on my phone. Not fish caught. Skunks. Nine straight trips to the same forty-acre lake with nothing to …
1 month, 3 weeks ago