A Bird Hunter's Road

 The past decade or so, I have left the pheasant belt of eastern Montana immediately after the opening weekend each year. The hunt is mostly...

Growing up in the icebox of northern Minnesota, I didn’t fathom hunting upland birds after Thanksgiving, let alone January 1 st or into Feb...

  September 1- October 10 How will we remember the 2020-2021 hunting season? One expects the first two weeks of the Montana season to be hot...

My mind is already wandering to cool mornings in camp, as we prep to head uphill to search for blues. Admittedly, it is a bit premature, a...

is the only practice I vouch for and is really the only part of the hunt we control.   The adage isn't complex, but to what degree we ta...

Getting to the point is sometimes the hardest part 500 miles one-way.   Two mountain passes to cross. Two round trips in two weeks. ...

Growing up a stone’s throw from the border – Canada, not Mexico, Halloween was always the sad finish line to our upland season.   The we...