Wade in the water Summertime conditions often put various bodies of water at very low levels. Some rivers and streams that were great for floating and fishing in the Spring and earlier Summer can become very difficult to navigate, even with shallow running crafts. In some streams, during late Summer[Read More…]
Tag: Everyday Outdoors
Everyday Outdoors: Bucks I have known: Part XIV
This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting. Tripod In the late 1980’s, my buddy Austin “Dump” Brown and I were regularly hunting a property owned by a friend near Paw Paw. In early Fall, while scouting,[Read More…]
Everyday Outdoors: Bucks I have known, Part XIII
This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting. The Second Day Buck Opening day of West Virginia deer firearms season is a yearly event that I have looked forward to since before I was old enough to[Read More…]
Bucks I have known: Part XII
This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting. The Suitor Buck In the late 1990’s I was bow hunting on a friend’s property near Paw Paw. I was sitting in a “chain on” portable tree stand, high[Read More…]
Everyday Outdoors: Bucks I have known, Part XI
This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting. The Old Warrior Several years ago, the Sideling Hill Wildlife Management Area in Morgan County opened to public hunting. I hunted there on opening day of West Virginia General[Read More…]
Everyday Outdoors: The Crooked Tree Buck
Bucks I have known: Part X This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting. The Crooked Tree Buck 1986 was a good year for me as a young hunter. I had been at my first long-term job[Read More…]
Everyday Outdoors — Bucks I have known, Part IX
Bucks I have known: Part IX This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting. The Boat Bucks Back in the mid 1990’s, my buddy Austin “Dump” Brown and I had been doing a lot of hunting from[Read More…]
Everyday Outdoors: Bucks I have known, Part VIII
This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting. Thread the Needle Buck The year was 1983. It was opening day of West Virginia deer firearms season. I was perched in a favorite tree in a remote area[Read More…]
Bucks I have known: Part VII — The Disappearing Buck
This is the latest in a multi-part series of columns about memorable deer that stand out from decades of whitetail hunting. The Disappearing Buck One fall, many years ago, I had been squirrel and turkey hunting on a friend’s property on the west end of Morgan County. Of course, while[Read More…]
Everyday Outdoors: Rabbit hunts
Rabbit hunts Deer hunting has been the most popular type of hunting here in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, and the surrounding area, for the last 50 years or so, but it wasn’t always that way. Many hunters in this area, up until at least the early 1970’s, were[Read More…]
