Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Mountain lions, blacktail deer, deer, outdoors, wildlife on January 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The tree-stand was located in a multiforked oak tree about 30 yards from the pond. The opening day of archery season would most likely be the best chance to arrow a nice buck. It doesn’t take long after the first disturbance before the bucks shy away and only does continue to drink at the water’s [...]
Posted in animal tracks, mule deer, outdoors, tracking on January 30, 2008 | No Comments »
I few years ago I took some notes in my notebook about the set of tracks described above. Later I transfered my sketch to piece of paper. The track was interesting because it showed more than just a set of tracks.
The size of the animal’s stride indicated to me that it was a buck. The [...]
Posted in Big game hunting, Hunting, boar, outdoors on January 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the years of heard about some very big boars killed in the hills near Livermore, but the largest boar I know of was taken in 2000 near Williams Gulch. Since that time, pigs have nearly disappeared in this area.
The reason? I believe it’s primarily depredation hunting by contract pig hunters who use many [...]
Posted in The Mule Deer Foundation, fundraising, mule deer, wildlife conservation on January 28, 2008 | No Comments »
(Caption: Happy new life members at 2002 banquet.)
Now that the last of the hunting seasons are over, it’s time to concentrate on doing what we can to see that hunters support the wildlife resource. Without wildlife and wildlife habitat we have no place to go to replenish our spirit and without that we just go [...]
Posted in California Delta, Duck hunting, Land Ownership, Wildlife habitat, outdoors, permanent marsh, seasonal marsh, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(Caption: My retired retriever Valentine at Mayberry on a good day.)
It’s the last Saturday of the 2007/2008 duck season and my truck is loaded, my dogs are ready to go and all I’ve got left to do is pick up some groceries on the way to our club.
I normally get out sooner on the last [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Farm Management, Hunting, Hunts with a Professional Hunter or Outfitter, Land Ownership, Ranch Management, Wildlife habitat, goose, mule deer, outdoors, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
On a recent hunting trip in Alberta, I was surprised to learn that in Alberta, the government does not permit land owners to lease hunting rights to other people, in other words the hunting rights cannot be segregated from the land and sold to somebody else on a periodic basis. However, my guide could hunt [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Hunting, Hunts with a Professional Hunter or Outfitter, african, ethics, outdoors, sheep, wildlife conservation on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Joined the B&C Club today. For some time, I’ve been thinking about Fair Chase, what it means to me. The Boone and Crocket club defines fair chase as: “…the ethical, sportsmanlike, and lawful pursuit and taking of any free-ranging wild native North American game animal in a manner that does not give the hunter an [...]
Posted in Ecology, Endangered species, Farm Management, Mountain lions, Wildlife habitat, outdoors, wildlife, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 24, 2008 | No Comments »
The racket emanating from the quarter-mile away brush patch was drawing attention from flocks of crowing crows joining in the ruckus like a Las Vegas crowd at an Ali -Fraser boxing match, but the seats were free. Screaming and growling two big cats were having it out.
I stood by the ranch gate, a witness [...]
Posted in Hunting, hunting dogs, outdoors, pheasant on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
The purchase of a bird dog is planned to meet the opening of hunting season. Can’t purchase a dog in January, it would interfere with the end of duck season. Can’t purchase a dog in June, it wouldn’t be ready to hunt on the October opener for ducks.
That leaves, February, March and April as the [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Hunting, Hunts with a Professional Hunter or Outfitter, archery, sheep on January 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A couple months after the 2006 Buck-O-Rama, I purchased a northern BC Stone Sheep hunt. Having hunted mule deer since I was 21, I wasn’t sure exactly how I’d be getting all the value out of the hunt, because a great mule deer hunt could be purchased for less than one third the price of [...]
