Posted in Big game hunting, Deer hunting, mule deer, outdoors, wildlife, tagged scouting for mule deer on July 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Scouting for mule deer. What does that mean? When you’re looking at a huge area, you’ve got many different levels of scouting.
We’ve hunted CA deer zone X12 before and it has huge deer habitat. It seems as if the entire unit holds deer. We’ve concluded that the biggest bucks are in the most difficult spots [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Hunting, birds, outdoors, photography, tagged Deer hunting on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Opening day is always good. This year was unique as I hunted alone with little fanfare. As my blind was set up for afternoon and evening winds, I didn’t get up early. Arriving about 2:00 PM, the weather was warm, but not unbearable. An appropriate sweat kept me cool enough and as usual, animal activity kept [...]
Posted in Deer hunting, Hunting, Mountain lions, outdoors, tagged Mountain lions, Deer hunting on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ever herd deer screem? They do it more often than one might think.
I was fortunate enough to get drawn an Anderson Flat Archery deer tag a few years ago. The hunt was interesting, but as with some of the other late season archery hunts I’ve tried, I just couldn’t get it right and went home deerless.
However I [...]
Posted in Deer hunting, animal tracks, outdoors, tracking on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Our tracks and the tracks of the pursued are intricately woven into the land that we live on. We cannot escape from the mold that we have been placed into. Every creature leaves a unique trail in its path. The ability to decipher this trail and follow or learn about the one who left it [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Deer hunting, Ecology, Endangered species, Endangered species, Hunting, Land Ownership, Mountain lions, Mountain lions, Ranch Management, Wildlife habitat, boar, deer, elk, outdoors, real estate, tule elk, turkey, wildlife, wildlife conservation, 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 occured [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Ecology, Hunting, Wildlife habitat, outdoors on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The afternoon wore on as I patiently waited for a buck to cross the sliver of oaks that led to a patch of serviceberry that I hoped would attract a big buck. As the shadows lengthened my attention gradually shifted to the evening hunt – the prime event of the day’s agenda.
Stepping from the patch [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Duck hunting, Farm Management, Hunting, Land Ownership, Partnerships, Ranch Management, Wildlife habitat, outdoors, real estate, selling land, wildlife conservation, wildlife management on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
(Caption: The size of the pond and the catch vary with ”the beholder.” 
The small sycamore tree stood atop a 20 foot high mound where it had been spared by quarry equipment. It remained an island in an otherwise barren gravel pit. From our vantage point, my brother, Rob, and I could see a valley quail sitting atop [...]
