Big Deer Blog

A fellow named Jim stopped by to appraise my property. He looked around at all the bucks, elk, bears and other stuffed critters hanging on the walls and scattered on the floor and grinned. He didn’t say anything, didn’t have to. I knew he was a hunter. Jim, gray and in his mid-50s, opened up and told me he’d gotten into bowhunting a few years ago. “I like it because it’s fun and exciting, even if you don’t kill anything most days. I’ve shot enough deer in my life. Now just being out in the woods is what I like.” Jim has arrived as a true hunter. He is at the point where the hunting of a buck is more [...]

Saw this on Twitter, reportedly shot in Warren County just south of Des Moines. What a Monster! Anybody know more?

As you read this, I sit in the same area where this black wolf showed up like an apparition one time on our trail camera last year. I shiver in the bone-chilling cold, listen to the pounding silence of the North Woods, gaze at those frost-covered spruce and willows that sparkle pink and blue in the morning sunlight, thank God that I am alive and able to go hunting in an awesome place like this. As I watch for a massive-bodied buck with a thick rack the color of old motor oil, I inevitably wonder, “Where is the black wolf?” (When you sit freezing for 10 straight hours each day in a tiny chair in a tiny ground blind, you [...]