Hunting - Sitka

This diamondback was angry. All of them produce noise when alarmed. Sometimes, it’s a relatively passive rattle, like a baby’s toy. Homeboy here was flat-out buzzing like lawn equipment, unseen to the four of us. The bird dog wouldn’t stand clear, either. We’d been working the brushy edge of a field on a Georgia quail hunt. The morning was crisp and cold, so it’s likely the snake had slithered to a hidey-hole where the afternoon sun would warm him. He… Read M...

>Read More

Among the many hunting regulation amendments that will be considered for adoption at the FWC Commission Meeting, the establishment of big game seasons at Silver Springs Forest WMA is most welcome. Silver Springs Forest WMA is approximately 4,900 acres in Marion County and will, if approved, provide deer, turkey, and hog hunting opportunities. According to the St. Johns River Water Management District, the District teamed with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Conse...

>Read More

Hunting wild hogs in orange groves just so happens to be a favorite pastime of mine. When ripe, pigs will go to town on Florida’s cash crop. Despite their ravenous appetite for fallen citrus, that tart taste doesn’t translates into the chops. Enter marinades. Over the years, I’ve soaked backstrap in orange juice with a bit of olive oil. The results – as is often the case with wild pork – were simply OK. Then I stumbled across Soy Vay’s… Read More »...

>Read More

Missouri game managers and their supporters have taken a beating recently over a USFWS decision to prohibit hog hunting in the Mark Twain National Forest. The Mark Twain National Forest has 1.4 million acres of land open to public hunting. After blowback from sportsmen, the policy was amended to allow persons possessing a valid State deer or turkey hunting permit who are hunting deer or turkey to harvest hogs, a concession that will be soon followed in suit by the Missouri… Read More...

>Read More

“Snow Geese are bastards” – Cole the Guide The February sights and sounds of Stuttgart, Arkansas are otherworldy to a Florida boy. Miles of fields moonscaped by the harvest and winter freezes with only a rice silo or always-distant treeline breaking up the polished steel horizon. Then there’s white. Lots of white. Two thousand proprietary light geese decoys surrounded our layout blinds. I queried our guide, Cole, how long it takes to set up this many dekes, essentially wh...

>Read More

The editor of Outdoor Life magazine, Andrew McKean, recently authored an excellent four-part series of essays on the troubles with national “critter groups” and organizing his own local conservation club in his home state of Montana. These passages from Part II sum up the thesis of the series: “Still, national organizations require a superstructure to support salaries, buildings, travel, and insurance, not to mention delivering whats called ‘mission accomplishment.’...

>Read More

Product Listings for Hunting - Sitka