Category: Hunting
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Hunting with style
Climbing writer Doug Robinson wrote (in paraphrase) that technology forces itself upon the landscape, while technique looks for a way through. Climbing is on matters of style an illustrative pairing for hunting, especially in the 21st century, where the later is on the cusp of a new wave of popularity which will likely substantially reinvent…
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2018 Hunting in Review
In spite of drawing a bison, which fulfilled expectations in providing what I expect to remain a top-5 lifetime hunt, I knew this year would be hard pressed to compete with last year. I’d been thinking about hunting a bison for over a decade, but of necessity hadn’t been actually trying to do it. Hunting…
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Thanks
In Montana the last day of the general/rifle deer, elk, and black bear season is the Sunday after Thanksgiving, which provides many folks with a last extended weekend and psyche-up. This year I was among them, and in the early afternoon Sunday trailed confused deer tracks across an open face; burnt sticks spaced across the…
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Porcelain crash
The reason why writers fail when they attempt to evoke horror is that horror is something invented after the fact, when one is re-creating the experience over again in the memory. Horror does not manifest itself in the world of reality. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars The wind came out of the north,…
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Cold
There’s the cold of walking downstairs, barefooted into the crosswinds of baseboard heaters just turned on. A head fuzzy with sleep and the unguardedness of pajamas that has you wanting an extra sweater. There’s the creeping cold; a headwind soaking into your layers and sublimating back and down your spine. After one hour you’re chilled,…
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Intimacy of looking
A little over eight years ago I had most of a day of what remain the worst conditions through which I’ve ever traveled. The high valleys and gentle passes of the Greater Yellowstone gave me a dozen straight miles of travel above 8000 feet, which in May made for over a dozen miles on six…
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How to hunt bison in the backcountry
Photo: Mike Moore Or; how we did our recent hunt, and what I might consider doing differently next time. First, you have to get a tag. I explained the particular appeal of the Absaroka-Beartooth tag in this post, and was beyond pleased that my thesis about this hunt was borne out on the ground. We…
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Bison meat storage
The only difference between meat storage for the upcoming bison hunt and any other hunt is needing to store a lot more meat, and the need to keep it away from bears. Which explains the pile of meat care equipment shown below: eight game bags, and 300 feet of paracord. Paracord isn’t the lightest or…
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Bison packs
Beyond rifles (maybe) and a whole lot of gamebags (to be discussed soon) there’s not much bison hunting demands beyond the pursuit of deer or elk, save perhaps when it comes to your backpack. In a few weeks we can expect to carry out the equivalent of between 3 and 4 mature elk, which will…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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