Canada Geese and Interesting Mating Games

If you’ve spent much time this spring around one of the nesting ponds or along the river, you’ve been hearing it, too. I’m thinking of the urgent pleadings of a love-struck Canada goose – Branta Canadensis. Several proposed pairings have been regularly chasing each...

All about the Quest for Near-Impossible Permits

Every year, during the few weeks before May 22, a good many of us who hunt begin seriously considering possibilities. We think about hunting some critter we have long dreamed of pursuing, or hunting in some season or place we have long dreamed of hunting. Getting a...

Make it a Mothers Weekend

It was another of those off-Reecer Creek meetings of the Reecer Creek Rod, Gun, Working Dog & Outdoor Think Tank Benevolent Association. The subject on the floor was Mother’s Day and how it might most appropriately be celebrated. Homey...

Antlers, Horns and Shed Hunting

It was one of those off-Reecer Creek meetings of the Reecer Creek Rod, Gun, Working Dog & Outdoor Think Tank Benevolent Association – a Friday cup with a couple homeys early in the spring. We were wishing we could send up a copter to locate some of the early horn...