It’s All about Family at the Youth Day Hunt.
Nothing in this world is more important than family. Some of us are fortunate in that we are made aware of this early in life and we learn to enjoy all that comes with...
Thoughts on the First Week of Deer Season
It’s Saturday afternoon prior to the buck season opener and I am in camp making a big pot of chili. No doubt I am usually not so perceptive about such things, but it dawns...
The Problem with Bambi
Bambi didn’t do us any favors. In the 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney there was lots of beauty and wonder and plenty of giggles for the kids and cuteness by the truckload....
A Favor To A Friend
For the life of me I could not believe I was here and this was happening. I felt a crushing sadness and at the same time a foggy sense of disbelief, like I would...
The Bear (and the Lady) Went Over the Mountain
I wanted to quit for about the fourth time. My breath was coming in gasps and my heart was pounding at a rate not seen in recent memory. I tried to concentrate on putting...
All in a Day’s Work for the Game Warden
“OK, now let me get this straight, are you saying this guy has a live bear in his house?” A man had stopped me on a remote backroad in the wilds of West Virginia...
WVDNR and Summit Bechtel Reserve Join Together To Teach Hunter Education.
My partner and I looked down on the hunter lying on the ground before us. He had a bullet wound in his lower back and had been dead for about twenty four hours. The...
