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The topic comes up a lot, and I’ve hunted with some incredible spotters as well as guys who have no idea how to do it. Here is a great post from gohunt.com on the topic: https://www.gohunt.com/read/skills/eight-easy-ways-to-improve-your-glassing-sessions Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Heading back to SD this morning. Here are some pics for you guys. More later, when I get my keyboard re-charged. But the pics speak for themselves.

i was away Friday to Sunday, but managed to squeeze in some time Monday with a buddy up on MCC. It was quiet for the first couple of hours, but we managed to locate some and push them around enough to make a meal of it. ;p They are on the grill now.

Many of you know how much I love a pig hunt. I also love to hunt alongside my good friend Neil Ray of Giant Sequoia Guide Service. So when Neil called me back in February to ask if I was interested in coming up for a weekend, I answered "SURE" even before he had finished asking the question. We...

Regs are posted online but the booklets won't be out till early April. https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Regulations

(Disclaimer: Given our degree of (un)success, I would have posted this under a "Scouting report" forum if that were an option.) Center Mass drew a SHARE program hunt at Rush Ranch on Grizzly Island (Suisun Marsh) a couple of weekends ago. He was looking for a hunting buddy, so I tagged along...

Well after a season mostly dedicated to archery deer, I have more respect than ever for bow hunters. Getting it done when the buck (and sometimes a whole group of does) is only a few yards from you is intense! Matagi gave me great advice, as always, along with a recommendation for a good spot...

I hate to complain, because I have a great life, but I have had precious little time to hunt this fall; 3 times so far for A22 and only once for D16. So I've really been looking forward to the next couple of weeks, hoping to fill my A22 tag. I got out and set up my dog house blind by moonlight...

Anyone have a favorite way to make jerky? I'm planning to make some this year. I have a Green Mountain Grills pellet smoker and I can dry strips out pretty well hot smoking at low temps, but I'm just wondering whether a dehydrator is really worth the additional investment or if I can make jerky...

After recent tragic events in Nice, France, I'm sure we can expect calls for new legislation to limit the lethality of big trucks.

I had a couple of pork shanks sitting around in the freezer so I thought I'd cook them up for my son and his girlfriend. I browned the shanks, one onion and a couple cloves of garlic in some rendered pork fat that I keep on hand in the fridge. Then I added salt, pepper, rosemary, oregano, sweet...

A couple of years ago I decided to invest in Fred Zink's decoys, after he'd sold out to Avian X. Well, 2 out my 3 Avian X decoys have held up fine for nearly two years, but one kept losing air. It's under two years old and the seals failed again last Saturday as it sat in the morning sun. I...

Just to be clear, I have tremendous respect for those of you capable of building your own long range rifles. I am not, but I am learning as I go. I am very fortunate to be able to buy great equipment off the shelf, and to have a local gun shop to help me find and install top notch optics, etc...

This weekend we re-asserted our right to bear arms. ;) I had a couple of forequarters left from the bear I took last year with Neil and GSGS, and I thought they might do well as slow cooked BBQ. Dry rubbed, then hickory smoked for four hours in my new Green Mountain pellet smoker, then slow...

First off, I apologize for this late and brief report on our Colorado elk hunt. I'm so busy catching up after my trips that I couldn't even get out for D16 opening weekend! Haha I know, cry me a river, right? Anyway, my brothers and I so enjoyed our 2014 first rifle hunt with J&D Outfitters at...

Back from Wyoming, meat is in the freezer, now two days of work and then I'm off to CO for elk. Full story to follow, but a couple of thoughts: 1) I don't always hit an animal poorly; but when I do, I know I have a helluva days work tracking ahead of me. It's the only ethical thing to do, and...

We already have some good threads on survival gear and navigation, but I'm thinking of specific gear people find useful trying to get through thick brush. Yesterday Ghost and I did a scouting hike that tested my gear. I'll offer some thoughts based on that experience and ask others to chime in...

Ghost and I hunted/scouted in the east San Diego County mountains this morning. We ended up bushwhacking through the canyon, through roses and poison oak down in the bottom, and through manzanita and buckbrush to climb the 500 feet out of the canyon. We actually got halfway up at one point and...

Last November on a hunt with GSGS, I killed a pig that had lived his entire life in an orange grove. Neil took me there as a treat, because he knows I have dry-cured hams from pigs I’ve shot with him. We agreed it would be worth a try. After all, world-class prosciutto gets its flavor from the...

Don't judge me: I prefer to hunt for meat in the field rather than in the deli case at the supermarket. And as it happens, wild pigs – either feral or Russian boar – could be just about the perfect game animal. Think about it: hardly anyone thinks they are cute or cuddly, they are non-native...