Posted in Big game hunting, Deer hunting, wildlife conservation, tagged Purple Hart Tour Blacktail Hunt, Purple Heart Tour on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kevin Olech and Dan Hammack with Kevin’s buck
by Kevin Olech, edited by Rich Fletcher
As long as I can remember, hunting has been a way of life for me and my brothers. We heard hunting stories and tales from as far back as I can remember. In my home town, the first day of deer season [...]
Posted in Big game hunting, Deer hunting, black bears, horse pack trip, hunting public areas, tagged Deer hunting, D6 Deer Zone, Black Bear, mountain quail, Kenndy Meadows Pack Station on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the last day of the D6 hunt, I made this video describing the action on the hunt and showing a bit of the rugged mountains along the Clarke Fork of the Stanislaus River.
On the second day of the hunt, I passed on a young buck, but managed to get a [...]
Posted in Big game hunting, Deer hunting, tagged A-Zone Blacktail hunting, trophy blacktail buck on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When the right buck comes along, it’s time to shoot. We learned this lesson a couple times this season. During the last week of the A-Zone season, Rob spotted a buck and it took Joe only a few seconds to zero in and put it to sleep.
Rob was a little bummed because it was the [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Deer hunting, Mountain lions, animal tracks, black bears, blacktail deer, horse pack trip, hunting public areas, mule deer, tagged Pack in deer hunt, Hunting with Kennedy Meadows Pack Station on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fernando was one of our two packers.
Randy was the other. They work for Kennedy Meadows Pack Station. The owner, Matt Bloom, is very accommodating.
This was a very large bear and we saw him two days in a row. We observed about six bears in all.
One bruin left his track near camp, but we didn’t have any [...]
Posted in Big game hunting, Deer hunting, The Mule Deer Foundation, blacktail deer, wildlife conservation, tagged Purple Heart Tour, Purple Heart blacktail deer hunt on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The weekend of August 14-16 was a whirlwind event for the Purple Heart Tour hunters – Dan Hammack, Kevin Olech, Ryan Olech and Austin Schultz. After flying in from Atlanta and Memphis to SFO the time flew by as one event led to another. From airport to hotel to gun range to BBQ to hunting, there wasn’t [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Deer hunting, Hunting, birds, birds of prey, blacktail deer, deer, photography, wildlife, tagged California deer hunting, hunting blacktail deer, photographing wildlife from a blind on July 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The day began with a typical flurry of bird activity. Many were drinking from the pond and others were bathing.
The acorn woodpecker posed for several photos from about 15 feet away.
A stellar jay joined him and it seemed like they were buddies, but I think not.
Scrub jays were everywhere, both adult and imature.
These young California [...]
Posted in Archery hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, blacktail deer, hunting public areas, tagged archery deer hunting, A-Zone Blacktail hunting, blacktail deer, California Coastal Blacktail Hunting on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
California’s A-zone blacktail aren’t big deer. Every once in a while a 24 inch wide buck shows up and occasionally one that has four points per side. Here are a few live photos of some A-zone bucks. Most of the bucks you’ll see in the A-zone are forked horns.
This is a cache creek buck photographed [...]
Posted in Deer hunting, birds of prey, butterflies, turkey, wildflowers, wildlife, tagged checkerspot butterfly on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One week left in the archery turkey season and I haven’t loosed an arrow. Actually I haven’t hunted since opening day. Last year’s turkey crop was below par and only one gobler is living on our ranch where we generally hunt. However, there are still turkeys in the area and with this spring’s rain promoting good [...]
Posted in Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Duck hunting, Hunting, The Mule Deer Foundation, Wildlife habitat, fundraising, hunting heritage, legislation, outdoors, wildlife, wildlife conservation, wildlife management, tagged SB 589, license and tag accountability on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On April 9, 2009, the following letter was sent to the Honorable Fran Pavley, Chair of the California Senate Natural Resouces and Water Committee.
RE: SB 589 (Harman) – SUPPORT
Dear Senator Pavley:
On behalf of The Mule Deer Foundation (MDF), I am writing you to urge your support of SB 589 (Harman), which would provide greater accountability and [...]
Posted in Alaska hunting, Big game hunting, Deer hunting, Salmon fishing, grizzly bears, outdoors, tagged grizzly bear encounters, Kodiak Island, hunting sitka blacktail deer on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day four of our Kodiak adventure was very enjoyable. If only we could have figured how to reel those silvers in quicker, we could have caught a plane load – all with fly rods.
In addition to silvers, we even caught a couple dolly vardon, but no steelhead. The fishing was everything Alaska fishing can be, [...]
