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    Tough day in hell

    A few years ago I started out for a simple elk hunt on a nice morning. Shortly after leaving the truck I cut tracks of an elk herd going north. I got blocked off of my path by a drift fence and had to tie up my horses to continue. Two drainages later I spotted a cow on the next ridge and shot...
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    Toughest bird to kill

    I started hunting birds when I was 9. I have killed nearly everything that flys, quacks, honks and everything inbetween. I have finally met my match. I have a flicker that's pecking his way into my porch. I have shot at him three times with my 16 gauge with no impact. They are fast and bob and...
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    Survival

    As a certified old fart, I believe the single worst thing in our lives is a family member who keeps saying' you are too old to be doing that, isn't it time to quit?" My father quit at 79 because of that and drifted away in a lazy boy. For me the days of gym time are past. However I have three...
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    Woosydom

    As I get older and skinnier I find that things I have lived through now are more severe. I remember -44 in Fargo in 1970 and it was a reason to drink beer. A few years ago it was -75 in the valley below me and it was just another night. Tonight it was only -8 while I was feeding horses. The...
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    Skinny

    I was going out on a hunt today and happen to be going past the east bathroom - naked. It has a doctor scale in it so I weighed myself. I'm down to 186.7#. I haven't weighed that since I was in the eighth grade and I was skinny then. I'm type II diabetic so my food choices are limited. My goal...
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    Unraveling puzzles

    This year has been a particularly difficult year to corner an elk. I spent 31 days on horseback and foot searching drainage by drainage in an area roughly 12 miles by 30 miles. It didn't help but where we usually have snow for tracking, we would get a dusting and then it would melt off by the...
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    Pain

    I seem to be suffering from tendonitis pain. It seems to focus on triceps, biceps and at times my forearms. It doesn't hurt to use them but trying to find a position that doesn't hurt in bed can be a challenge. I have started using Blue Emu and a tylenol and have found some relief but it...
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    Endurance

    Tomorrow is the last day of rifle season in Montana. I have spent 31 days searching for an elk on horseback. I have averaged 10-12miles per day in my search. Weather has not been cooperating. A lot of the days were on bare ground. I have seen cows twice. I've been close to a couple three...
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    Equipment

    I tie up often in lodgepole jungles, chase the elk on foot and then return to my horse and continue on. I got to thinking what do I use to succeed in finding my horse again. An item not ever mentioned is an altimeter. I use one to establish where the horse is elevationwise. I just setvit to...
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    An old guy problem

    This is a little wierd but -- I am currently on farxiga which causes frequent urination events. Often with little warning. With this in mind, I often struggle with finding the zipper tab on my pants under my chaps and handgun. I am going to try a paper clip but am open to any reasonable...
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    Bleeding

    I just finished 5 days of cutting trails in lodgepole jungles. At the end of each day my arms are covered with blood. Every sharp branch end that touches me cuts my thin skin and leaves me leaving a blood trail. How do you gents deal with this?
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    Count down

    I'm just about done with all of my chores before hunting season. I have one horse left to shoe. This week will be dedicated to cutting out trails. My dozer is just about prepped for winter. If the forest service can keep from burning down all available elk habitat we might have a decent...
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    Fire

    Lightning started a fire north of me. I rode in yesterday cutting out the winter downfall on one of my trails. The fire was at 11 acres. Met one of the FS voyeurs watching the fire burn. Nice guy but upper management said to let it burn so they were documenting the growth. A cold front is...
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    Burn out

    This summer has been hell! When I retired, I felt now I can manage my life and time -- wrong. This year I maintained my consulting; disced, seeded and harrowed my north field; put up 750 bales; rearranged My barn and shop; finished my deck on the front of the house; cut,split and stacked 14...
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    Why?

    I finished harrowing a field today in preparation for seeding this week or next. As I went around and around, I watched my neighbor digging up stumps with a backhoe. My wife spent the day staining the wood ceiling on the porch. After the field I spent an hour welding my harrow back together...
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    Summer is over

    We got an inch of snow early in the week. The day before that the elk left, the does and their fawns left, and the hummingbirds started south. Now we are starting Indian summer. Hot days - cold nights. A lot of California campers are heading south on I 15. Good days are on the horizon and the...
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    Interesting day

    I'm in the rebuild years - not dead but some wore out parts. Today I had my upper sinuses reamed out. Not debilitating but certainly memorable. My eyes hurt and every once in a while I get a big bloody slug of mucus. Kind like the aftermath of a 5th grade fist fight. Guess this is scheduled to...
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    Oops

    I bought a new scope and through the process of sighting it in, I think I may have discovered a problem from the past. As I dialed the scope in I would find the hits close and then scattered. I was just about ready to send the new scope back when I started trying to identify the source of the...
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    Seven weeks till spring

    My old neighbor told me when I moved here that in 1922, it never snowed until the end of Feb. Ten it snowed every day through June. I think this is a repeat. It has been 20 degrees nearly every morning since Dec except when it was substantially colder. Yesterday was forecast to be clear. It...
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    Elk have habits

    When you get tired of stories - let me know and I will go find something else to do. I got out of camp early one morning and started a long sweep in my search for elk. About a mile out of camp I picked up a trail of a herd of 20-30 going north. Being on horseback, I followed them across two...

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