I will be 71 years old this coming winter, and I thought I would share some old man, million-adventure-miles observations with my fellow deerhunting brethren. So much has changed since I was born in 1948, yet so much has remained the same. I just made a very emotional return trip to my old birth neighborhoodContinue Reading Live the Spirit of the Wild Lifestyle
Have I mentioned recently how the ultimate compliment that you can possibly bestow upon someone is that they are down-to-earth? Well in case I haven’t, it is. The terms grounded and down-to-earth ultimately define a person’s reliability, honesty, trustworthiness, conscientiousness and overall integrity. Since the modernization tsunami of the industrial revolution, as societies migrated enContinue Reading Down-To-Earth Food Plot Work
Thank God I was born into a hunting, shooting, outdoor-celebrating family way back when! I’ve always said if Elvis Presley and Jim Hendrix et al. were raised with a bow and arrow in the Great Outdoors, they would still be alive today! Believe me when I tell you how thrilling, challenging and consuming is theContinue Reading Ted Nugent Kamp for Kids 30 Years Later
As powerful a healing force that nature provides us outdoor families in America, now is not the time to let her often intoxicating healing powers deter us from critical, cultural life-and-death concerns, and inherent duties that are all around us. Our sacred outdoor recreation time does not only re-create our energies and spirit, but shouldContinue Reading We Can’t Give Up Our Hunting Lifestyle
Growing up and hunting in Michigan throughout the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, there were no wild turkeys to be had. My first encounter with the mighty Thunderchicken was in the Manistee National Forest up in the northeast area of the lower peninsula around 1975. Trekking mile after mile of wonderful rugged wildground habitat pursuing theContinue Reading Deer Hunting Turkeys
I remember it like it was just this morning. I couldn’t have been much more than 6, maybe 7 years old. We lived on Florence Street in Redford on the northwest edge of Detroit, and right across Hazelton Street was the winding wildgrounds of the mighty Rouge River that called my name loud and clearContinue Reading Challenge: Take a Newcomer Hunting
The National Rifle Association. Hunter Nation. Gun Owners of America. Ducks Unlimited. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. National Wild Turkey Foundation. Delta Waterfowl. Pheasants Forever. Trout Unlimited. Quail Unlimited. The Grouse Society. Gun Owners of California. Texas Rifle Association. Jews For the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. The Zelman Partisans. The Wild Sheep Foundation. The National TrappersContinue Reading Conservationists Unite!
I’m just a guitarplayer and I never went to college. I was too busy learning stuff; really important stuff! You know, all of that radical stuff like self-evident truths, logic, commonsense, reality, earning your own way, living within your means, saving for a rainy day, self-sufficiency, accountability, frugality, utilitarian pragmatism, independence, work ethic productivity, responsibleContinue Reading Back to Basics: Wildlife Management 101
Man started out living in a cave. Felt right at home nobody’s slave. Only wanted a happy home. Only wanted to be left alone. Now it’s my turn to show my stuff. It’s sometimes fun it’s sometimes rough. I’m workin’ hard to earn my way, but lucky me my work is play! Workin’ hard, playin’Continue Reading Life Is Better in the Great Outdoors
I love animals. They’re delicious! Well, of course, the most pure and original relationship mankind has had with critters certainly pivots upon the procurement and reverence for the life-sustaining protein they have provided us time immemorial. I think we can all agree that in its most basic and simplistic consideration, venison is indeed life. OnceContinue Reading Charged! Close Call With Wild Wildlife
