I don't suppose that I will ever tire of seeing elk. A day with elk, will be a good day indeed... A young bull elk walks into the rising sun in the high desert of Colorado Photograph by Michael Patrick

A Rare Offering From Out Inventory: Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass by Ruscha, Edward $1250.00 First edition. Wraps. Cunningham Press, Alhambra (1968). One of 2400 unnumbered copies, 64 pages, with

A Boone & Crockett Record Book class Mule Deer is an extraordinary animal by any measure. Scarce as hen's teeth they be, and it would be reasonable to speculate that a hunter could spend an entire

No - this is not a water color painting! But it is a recent photograph of a very large mule deer buck, captured in the low light at the end of day, surrounded by the heavy smoke of the terrible fires of

A small group of Rocky Mountain Elk of the bullish kind, caught on a game camera in Western Colorado on an early summer day. Photograph by Michael Patrick McCarty Active Member Outdoor Writers Association

There are days when it is great to be a goose hunter, and some days when it is not so good to be a goose. Here is an image not often seen, probably because most of us are busy shooting at things rather

My neighbor is an artist - a sculptor of wire, found things, and other materials. Hence, I never know what new item of interest will naturally appear in her yard, nor how long it will hand around. Today

Elk leave behind a lot of evidence of their passing for those who look. Rubs on branches and brush are some of the signs that I love to find, because it usually indicates that something with large antlers

A close-up view of some feathers from a mature Merriam's Gobbler, harvested in the high mountain's of western Colorado in the Spring of 2018. It was an epic hunt too, but that's another story... Long live

The image contained above is of a bookplate that I found a few years ago in a book first published in 1917. The author, and the book itself would seem on the surface inconsequential, but the bookplate,

Bugling for Elk: A Complete Guide To Early-Season Elk Hunting by Dwight Schuh, Stoneydale Press Publishing Company, Stevensville, Montana, 1983, 162 pages. In Hardcover and Softcover Editions. Every once

"Always be ready to be lucky" - Ray Seelbinder *The North American Deer Slam includes the fair chase harvest of a Mule Deer, White-tailed Deer, Coues Deer, Black-tailed Deer, and Sitka Deer.

A Big Wisconsin Longbeard, Eastern Version "Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters". —Archibald Rutledge Springtime is turkey time in my hunter's world. Snow season yields slowly

A Crab Of Blue You simply have not lived life to the fullest if you have not enjoyed a golden-fried plate of crab cakes on a hot summer day, somewhere near the New Jersey shoreline. It's all about the

I have not written much in the days of late, and it has made me a bit anxious, unsettled, and well...lost. A writer can get that way, or so I have heard, and it is something that I have tried to teach

The last days of snow and cold in the Rocky Mountains bring forth an almost mystical anticipation, and perhaps no one knows that more than the mule deer. For good reason too, because winter here can be

Here's a custom made sign that once hung over my main street bookstore in Western Colorado. I closed that brick and mortar outlet years ago, but I kept the books, and the sign. Somehow I just could not

March 10, 2018 I received a most wonderful birthday gift today, as fine as any I could wish to see. To put it simply, I absolutely love bluebirds, and to spy the first sighting of the year on such a day

“How the waiting countryside thrills with joy when Bluebird brings us the first word of returning spring. Reflecting heaven from his back and the ground from his breast, he floats between sky and earth

Colorado is well known for producing some of North America's top trophy mulie bucks, and this guy has some real promise. If harvested next year, my guess is that he will easily qualify for the Boone &