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From Field to Freezer: How I Learned to Butcher My Own Deer (Badly, Then Better)
The first deer I butchered myself was a disaster. I had YouTube pulled up on my phone, a dull knife I’d sharpened badly, and the kind of confidence t…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The For Sale Sign at My Favorite Public Land (And Why Conservation Isn’t Someone Else’s Job)
There’s a piece of public land about forty minutes from my house. I’ve hunted it for eight years. I know which ridges the deer bed on when the wind i…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A Coyote Called In by Accident Has No Script
I wasn't trying to call anything in. I was just sitting there, bored, playing a free predator call app. Then a coyote showed up at thirty yards, and …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The First Deer I Shot Alone (With a Craigslist Bow and No Idea What I Was Doing)
The first deer I shot wasn’t with a rifle. It was with a compound bow I bought on Craigslist for $200. It came with a dozen arrows, a release that wa…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Three Trips, Zero Fish, and the One Mistake That Explained It
I didn’t catch anything my first three trips. Not a single fish. I watched YouTube, bought the recommended gear, tied the knots like the guy showed m…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Fifty-Five Pounds of Fear, Eighteen Pounds of Pack
I used to carry way too much stuff into the woods. Like, embarrassing amounts. My first elk hunt I brought a 55-pound pack for a day trip. Spare sock…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
When Your Hunting Spot Gets a For Sale Sign: Why Showing Up Matters More Than You Think
I pulled into the gravel lot at 5 a.m. and there it was. A For Sale sign. On the gate. The gate to the 300-acre piece of public-adjacent private land…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Your Bench Rest Groups Are Lying to You: How to Practice Like You Actually Hunt
I shot a whitetail at 275 yards two seasons ago. Good hit — double lung. She ran about sixty yards and dropped. Standard stuff. But when I walked up …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Forty Dollars of Knives, a YouTube Video, and a First Deer
My first time butchering a deer I watched two YouTube videos, bought a $40 knife set from Amazon, and told myself “how hard can it be?” About four ho…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Too Proud to Ask for Help: The Fastest Way to Ruin Your First Deer
The first deer I ever shot, I lost maybe thirty percent of the meat. Not to bad shot placement — the shot was fine. Double lung, dropped inside forty…
2 months, 2 weeks ago