Hunted geese twice last week. First on Tuesday and last on Friday. The Tuesday hunt went well as two guests, Michael Flores and Chuck Alexander and myself shot almost a box of shells apiece. Specs and snows were vulnerable in the morning fog. The final tally was 15 geese between us, nine of them were [...]
Archive for January, 2011
California Goose Hunting and Population Dynamics
Posted in California Delta, goose, Hunting, tagged Goose hunting, Goose Populations on January 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Good Old Days
Posted in Hunting, mule deer, tagged Good Old Days, Mule Deer Hunting on January 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a photo of Harry Rowell and and another fellow. This other fellow has been called Johnny horsekiller by some of the locals. I don’t have the story to go with the name. The photo speaks for itself. From what I’ve been told, these deer were killed in Nevada. Any of them would win the [...]
Final Verdict on the Final Approach Duck Boat
Posted in California Delta, Duck Boat, Duck hunting, ducks, Gear, Hunting, tagged duck boat on January 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
After nearly a full season of evaluation, I’ve got a pretty good handle on the Final Approach Duck Boat. I took my evaluation seriously and conducted all my duck hunting from the Final Approach to date. I even hunted from the boat all of the time – until this last weekend. In fact, I’d [...]
Featured Mule Deer Hunt for 2011 Livermore-Pleasanton Banquet
Posted in Big game hunting, Deer hunting, fundraising, Hunting, moose, mule deer, The Mule Deer Foundation, whitetail deer, wildlife conservation, tagged Dome Creek Outfitters, Livermore-Pleasanton MDF Chapter Banquet, MDF Fundraising Auction on January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The 2011 MDF banquet scheduled for March 10 at the Palm Event Center on Vineyard Avenue in Pleasanton will feature a mule deer hunt with Kiff Covert of Dome Creek Outfitters in British Columbia. Kiff has donated a combo mule deer and moose hunt in BC Game Management Unit 7-5 located in the Fraser River drainage on [...]
Geese Plentiful at Webb Tract
Posted in California Delta, goose, Hunting, Waterfowl Conservation, tagged California Delta goose hunting on January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As is typical for mid-winter, geese have packed onto Webb Tract in the Delta. Between four hunters we brought down 17 over two days of hunting last week. As usual, the most productive method of take is pass shooting. That means finding a flyway between two grinds of geese and shooting fairly long shots as geese [...]
2010 in review
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 50,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj [...]
Mediation as an Alternative Dispute Resolution
Posted in legal access, legal issues, real estate, right-of-way, tagged Alternative Dispute Resolution on January 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We’re going to mediation this week. The parties will be the defendant, the City and County of San Francisco (CCSF) and us, the plaintiff. r2e t4s 1905 for export to adobe Click on this link to see a map of the ranch and surrounding area. In a perfect world, all disputes would end with mediation. In this [...]
Summer Sausage for Christmas
Posted in Cooking wild game, Sausage on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Made summer sausage the week before Christmas and gave almost all of it away. In fact I just opened the final hunk we have left for New Years. The sausage kit recipe is excellent and it cuts down on the prep work. I mixed ten pounds of ground venison (from Jeff’s BC whitetail) with four [...]
