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 [...]
Archive for January, 2008
The Lion and the Buck
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, blacktail deer, deer, Deer hunting, Mountain lions, outdoors, wildlife on January 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Mule Deer Tracks
Posted in animal tracks, mule deer, outdoors, tracking on January 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 Largest Boar Ever Killed in the Livermore Hills?
Posted in Big game hunting, boar, Hunting, outdoors on January 29, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Over the years, I’ve 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 [...]
Ducks, Deer and Wildlife Conservation in Alberta
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Farm Management, goose, Hunting, Hunts with a Professional Hunter or Outfitter, Land Ownership, mule deer, outdoors, Ranch Management, wildlife conservation, Wildlife habitat, wildlife management on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Fair vs Fare Chase
Posted in african, Archery hunting, Big game hunting, ethics, Hunting, Hunts with a Professional Hunter or Outfitter, outdoors, sheep, wildlife conservation on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Cat Fight
Posted in Ecology, Endangered species, Farm Management, Mountain lions, outdoors, wildlife, wildlife conservation, Wildlife habitat, wildlife management on January 24, 2008 | 2 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 [...]
Lola Dioji on Opening Day
Posted in Hunting, hunting dogs, outdoors, pheasant on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
A Lifetime Hunter Reflects on the Hunt of a Lifetime
Posted in archery, Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Hunting, Hunts with a Professional Hunter or Outfitter, sheep, Uncategorized 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 [...]
Time to Open Lands to Hunting
Posted in Big game hunting, boar, deer, Deer hunting, Deer hunting, Ecology, elk, Endangered species, Endangered species, Hunting, Land Ownership, Mountain lions, Mountain lions, outdoors, Ranch Management, real estate, tule elk, turkey, wildlife, wildlife conservation, Wildlife habitat, wildlife management on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My brother spotted a deer in Mocho Creek last week. It was a doe. Having lived along Livermore’s Mocho Creek for much of our lives, we know that spotting a deer in the creek is unusual. So unusual that the last deer we saw in Mocho Creek was over 40 years ago. Our previous deer sighting [...]
