All About Opening Days & Food Traditions

It’s time. A week from tomorrow, general deer season opens. It’s a big deal; we are immersed in family traditions around openers from the first moment we show a spark of interest. As families, we review safe handling rules for the tools we will take afield. We make...

The Trojan Horse – Initiative 594 (Now What?)

I promised last week that we would look at actions you might take, now, to protect yourself from some of the difficulties and landmines you will experience if Initiative 594 passes in November. The bottom line is this: not much. Some attorneys around the state are...

Our Opposing Firearms Initiatives – 594 Is a Trojan Horse

Last week, I passed along the ballot titles for our opposing firearm initives. I also suggested that you read the full text of each. Again, the titles below are all you will see on your ballot. Certified ballot title for Initiative 591: “This measure would prohibit...

Of Fish and Firearms

Monday evening. Another far-off-Reecer Creek meeting of the Reecer Creek Rod, Gun, Working Dog & Outdoor Think Tank Benevolent Association. This one with a group of Columbia River homeys gathered along the Deep River not far from Cathlamet, Washington. The...

Tuna and Salmon and Ilwaco and Family

We spent the better part of another Labor Day Weekend in Ilwaco, just north of the mouth of the Columbia. There, we sat around a campfire meditating upon our Monday trip to chase albacore tuna, aka ocean torpedoes, across the Pacific. This was my third Labor Day in a...