by Jim Huckabay | Jun 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Last December, after a conversation with stuntman and last of the Hucklings Edward, I bought us life memberships in the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute. He had just been recruited for a film shoot in Louisiana, where he would be doing a variety of driving and...
by Jim Huckabay | Jun 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Here it is at last; Free Fishing Weekend in Washington State – the lakeside social event of the year. Buckle up. Tomorrow and Sunday, you will need no license to fish in any open water in the state, and plenty of fat “truck trout” have been dropped into local...
by Jim Huckabay | Jun 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
Over the years, we’ve had several conversations in this space about the health risks (to wild sheep) of contact between domestic sheep and their wild cousins. While our conversations have focused on local and Northwest problems and die-offs, the issues go far beyond...
by Jim Huckabay | May 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Amazing, really, where a glass of wine and an evening of conversation over a frog chorus will take you. Don and Sharon Cocheba started thinking about my fascination with blackbird songs around our marshes, and decided maybe Diane and I needed to expand our...
by Jim Huckabay | May 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Bighorn sheep are often described as the “icons of the Mountain West.” The three primary species, or subspecies, of bighorns are the Rocky Mountain bighorns (most of the West), the desert bighorns (desert mountains of our southwest and down into Mexico) and the...
by Jim Huckabay | May 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
I don’t know how many homeys have asked me when – or if – I was going to write something about school shootings. I’ve probably spent too much time thinking about it – and too much sad time mulling over the ignorance surrounding the so-called “debates” about firearms....