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I Let a Trail Cam Buck Own Me for a Whole Season, and I Ate Tag Soup for Thanksgiving
His name was Ghost, and for three months last fall, he owned me. It started in late August with a single trail camera picture sent to my phone at dus…
5 days, 1 hour ago
The Gut Shot That Taught Patience, and Then Taught Shame
The buck wasn’t a monster, but he was handsome. A solid eight-pointer, the kind of deer that makes you stop breathing for a second when he steps out …
5 days, 1 hour ago
The Day a Treestand Almost Turned Someone Into a Lawn Dart
Competence and complacency are two very different things, and on one crisp autumn morning high up in an old oak, that difference got learned the hard…
5 days, 2 hours ago
The One Time Grandpa Didn’t Ask, the Rifle Stayed on the Kitchen Table
For fifteen years, every single time the door was headed out for a hunt, the same question came from the worn-out armchair. Coffee that was more chic…
5 days, 2 hours ago
The Buck Fever That Turned My Brain to Mush and My Arrow Sideways
I had him. After three months of watching this ten-point ghost my trail cameras, after two weeks of hunting the October lull with nothing to show for…
6 days, 23 hours ago
Amos’s Diary: Monday, July 20, 1903
Four pages in the diary now, and the year’s been turned all the way round once and tipped over into itself again. Summer come back around, and Amos w…
1 week, 1 day ago
I Trusted an Eleven Dollar Pair of Gloves to Keep My Hands Warm, and I Watched My Deer Walk Away
The first time I ever sat a late-season stand in real cold, I did the thing every broke, overconfident hunter does. I pulled on a pair of insulated “…
1 week, 1 day ago
The ‘No Man’s Land’ Shot and What to Do When the Blood Trail Dies
I had a buck pegged for three months. A big-bodied nine point I’d been getting on trail camera since July, always on the same oak flat, always moving…
1 week, 2 days ago
The State Cut My Favorite Timber, and I Was Furious Until I Saw What Grew Back
I spent a decade telling anybody who would listen that the timber company was the enemy. They owned the thousand acres behind my house, the ground I …
1 week, 2 days ago
The Afternoon I Got Lost on Public Land and Walked in Circles Until I Sat Down
The first time I got seriously lost in the woods, I wasn’t scared. I was embarrassed. That’s the part nobody tells you about. Fear you can handle. It…
1 week, 3 days ago