en-us http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal.aspx?id=113 10 Journals http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1209 Day 5 – After hanging three nice bucks that first day, we woke up to warmer temps the next morning that kept down the deer movement. At about 11 a.m., a cold front blew in that brought on a steady diet of high winds, rain and snow showers that kept us out of the mountains and close to camp for the n... 1/1/2010 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1204 Day 1 (cont'd) - When we had just finished dressing & hanging Trey’s deer in the shade to chill out while we hunted the rest of the day, my uncle drove up in his jeep with my dad and another guy from our bunch. They had started out closer to camp and hunted all the way to where we were at the bo... 12/27/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1203 Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tsty... 12/26/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1191 An event we look forward to every year, the Serve Outdoors deer hunt at Canyon Lake, Tx., was suddenly upon us. I left home early last Friday morning and headed for the hill country. Since we were going to be hunting that afternoon, I needed to get there before the other hunters started to show up. ... 11/20/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1186 We held our 9th annual teal hunt this past September near my home town of El Campo, Tx, when 11 disabled hunters come in for a weekend of duck hunting. Two of our guys, Mikey Sellers from Louisiana & Josh Wilhelm from Texas, were new injuries and it was their first time back in the field. We h... 11/12/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1176 A storm front pushing down from western Canada looked ominous as we crossed the Colorado state line into Wyoming. It's also one of the things I love about being at elevation - you can see rain storms from 20 miles away. By the time we reached Wheatland, forty miles north of Cheyenne, the line ... 10/20/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1157 By now, I’d taken a long-horned old female gemsbok and a crazy looking black wildebeest bull after chasing a herd of ‘em around in a big circle on the plains all afternoon. It’s day seven of my eight day safari and I’ve got two animals left on my wish list: a springbuck and a warthog. Today, we’... 9/10/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1148 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } Let me first tell you how refreshing it is to get up every morning with the anticipation of chasing a different game animal hovering in the air around you.   Even after eight straight days of safari, I was eager to get out of bed.   There ... 8/21/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1137 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } The morning began almost identical to yesterday’s, a knock at our chalet door about a quarter to six, then a very cordially “get your lazy ass up!” from Ray, a hot breakfast in the main lodge at seven, then heading out the door to hunt.   It’s c... 8/5/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1133 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } After 3 days in Paris , I was ready to board the plane for South Africa and my first ever hunting safari. We took off late that night.   The excitement I felt can only be known by born-to-hunt hunters going on their first trip to the dark ... 7/27/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1119 My first steps into this world came to me when I started to become aware that the guns I owned weren’t as accurate as I wanted them to be, nor nearly as consistent as I thought they should be.  So one day, while sitting at the bench and "re"-sighting in my rifle before a Colorado mule deer hunt... 6/22/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1064 I think every year around this time, I find myself taking inventory of last fall's hunting equipment as well as planning for the coming year’s trips.   Thought I would take some time to tell you about some of the things I use in the field that I take with me on my hunts.  ... 2/2/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1054 “There’s some deer coming down behind us,” Merle blurted out as I whipped my head around to see out the back window of the blind.   “One’s a buck!” I replied, “He’s just an 8 point though.”   We both watched as the buck followed a doe down into the osage thicket behind us, rub... 1/2/2009 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1040 After a recent trip to Bass Pro Shops to get a crossbow restrung for a friend of mine, I felt compelled to write about my experience as soon as I got back home.   Every able-bodied hunter that noticed my bow stopped and asked me the same question:   “How far does that thing shoot?  ... 11/26/2008 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1018 These were my last two shots when sighting in my 270 before the hunt.  Ironically, they'd be close to the exact distance I'd wind up having when I found my buck in my sights during the last few minutes of shooting light. A wise man once told me, "If you shoot little bucks,... 11/3/2008 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1017 My hunt started this morning in the Super 8 motel paking lot.  Mike showed up about six to help dad load me and everything else we needed up in dad's truck.  We headed out to a piece of farmland owned by a rancher named Rocky who also has a disabled son, Denver, who would&nb... 10/27/2008 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=1016 We passed the Cortez, Co., city limit sign just before three o'clock on Friday afternoon after spending two days on the road from Texas.  Seems like we saw twenty different prices for a gallon of gas on the way up, all around the three dollar bill mark.  I don't even want to know how many ... 10/27/2008 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=996 Hurricane Ike, yes the one that just leveled the entire island of Galveston and layed waste to the city of Houston, roared ashore Friday night a mere 100 miles to the east, just far enough and on the right side to give us a glancing blow as he went by.  Twenty miles down the road... 10/6/2008 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=998 Back when I was a kid in south central  Texas , the only white-wing dove hunting to be had was either way down in the valley of south Texas or in Mexico .  Dad even took me down there one year when I turned 15 on one of their annual white-winging trips to hunt the vast ... 9/25/2008 http://huntingnet.com/fieldjournal/fieldjournal_detail.aspx?nID=959 Since we're deep into the off-season, I thought I'd post an account of one of the most memorable hunts I've ever been on.  It took place the first days of August almost 3 years ago today... I was on the trail of Boone & Crockett that weekend. I thought every kid who grew up hunting in my ... 8/5/2008