Category: Hunting
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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…
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Bison rifles
This afternoon I ticked one of 2018s hunting goals off the list; putting grouse (ruffed, in this case) back on the menu. The schnitzel was on the chewy side, due to an old and big bird and more likely to a pan to table time under 2 hours, but with plenty of lemon still reminded…
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Premium baselayers: what you get
For the last three years my one-sized solution to any temps above really cold has been the original version of the Sitka LW Core hoody. With ~100 grams/meter 100% poly bicomponent (grid inner) and a trim, simple fit it is the shirt I spent close to decade waiting for. A decade ago baselayer fabric wasn’t…
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In passing
Yesterday I received an email from a reader informing me that Jason Hairston, founder of Kuiu and the most prominent American hunter of the past few years, had killed himself at home in California. At that point in the evening rumors had evidently just begun to circulate, and my post from last fall concerning Kuiu’s…
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Looking
Residential buildings in Montana generally don’t have air conditioning, making the 5-8 weeks each year when night lows don’t go into the mid-50s or less a period to be endured, with windows wide open. So it stood out like a stick cracked deep in shadowy, still lodgepole when last week we woke cold and with…
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Shit that works; lifestyle addition
The Wayback Machine doesn’t travel back to when I can first recall the concept of “lifestyle” in outdoor clothing and gear. It was a North Face catalogue, late 80s or early 90s, talking about a woman from Alaska or the Yukon or Wyoming or some similarly very far from Ohio place, who had fallen out…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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