Category: Hunting
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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…
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Backpack destruction
There are two kinds of hunting backpacks. The first is a burly backpacking pack, with enhanced hipbelt design and some manner or provisions for keeping (boned out) meat weight high and tight to maintain load carry. Internal loops at the tops of the stays are the best option here, as building enough anti-barrel into a…
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Why Mike Lee is not full of it
A week ago the junior Senator* from Utah caused a good stir with a speech that all you readers ought to peruse, as it is both better and worse than the typical outpourings of press releases and 250 word “articles” have made it to be. I’ll pick some nits in conclusion, but it’s worth hopping…
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Slough Creek packraft and bison scout
There are bison in Slough Creek. This did not surprise, the whole premise of my coveted tag this year is mostly older bulls who spend the summer and early fall up on the verge of the subalpine. The bison in Slough Creek are very large, also not a surprise, but a pleasure and something of…
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Now that’s a pack
Last year I wrote this, a rather grumpy paean on a favorite per peeve, backpack capacity. In the 15 months since the world has taken no visible notice, with perhaps one exception, and continued to undervalue the worth of a big ole pack bag, and overstated the capacity of said bag, often radically. The one…
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I need a posse
One of the more awesome, and frustrating, things about hunting is that on a random day you might just get one of your most dearly held ambitions, via email. And prior to that day you’ll likely have little clue if this year or next decade or ever will be your time. I knew I’d get…
Bedrock & Paradox 
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