It’s a sunny, cold Tuesday afternoon in February, and I’m out for a rare winter hike along the Shenango Trail. I pull in at New Hamburg, four miles upstream from Big Bend, and see not a single tire track in … Continue reading
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Next weekend we’re going to add a new annual tradition to the F-Troop Camp calendar, a late-winter coyote hunt. Gary and Brett Peterson, Todd Puleo, and I will travel up Friday evening, and Brad Isles and possibly one or … Continue reading
Deer season officially ended with our annual winter muzzleloader hunt at camp last weekend. We had a record NINE attendees, including one newbie and one second-timer, and we hunted hard all day Saturday (at three different locations in the … Continue reading
It was 12 degrees out there, according to my Jeep Cherokee temperature gauge, when we pulled into the Warren County game lands parking lot at 6:30 a.m. on the last Thursday of deer season. A fresh six inches of powdery … Continue reading
I just found out recently that I won the Bass Pro Shops “Pass It On Award,” which is, according to the press release, “given annually to an active Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association member for the best published newspaper or … Continue reading
Be on the lookout for the upcoming December issue of Pennsylvania Game News for a deer-hunting article I wrote for the magazine. The title is “Opening Day in the Big Woods,” and it’s a story of the classic opening … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, I took my 54-caliber in-line muzzleloader for a walk in the late-October Warren County forest. I wasn’t really serious about hunting that day, to be honest. I’m not an archery hunter, and October seems way … Continue reading
What’s new is we’re finally getting some cooler seasonal weather lately after a September and half-October of August-like heat and dusty desert drought. It will be a lot more comfortable now to get out into the woods and enjoy … Continue reading
It’s my birthday, and Donna Rai’ and I will celebrate tomorrow with a hiking excursion down at McConnell’s Mill, one of the most remarkable natural settings in western Pennsylvania. I’m looking forward to a challenging side-hill hike from the … Continue reading
What’s new is we’re sprucing up Camp F-Troop. The boys and I go up there a lot, and we always do dishes, haul garbage, pick up around camp, and vacuum the floors before we leave, but we don’t do … Continue reading