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Coals on Cast Iron
This article was first published in Issue 4, 2026 of Western Hunter magazine. It’s an unfortunate fact of life that the older we get, the fewer friends we make, so when my dad had the opportunity to befriend what had… Continue reading
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Ishkitini
This article was first published in the Autumn 2025 issue of Feathers and Whiskey magazine. Work took me east and into the city for a few years, but I knew before I’d crossed the Mississippi that it was only a… Continue reading
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Trophy Turkey
This article was first published May 21, 2026, at fieldethos.com. My dad was my hero. He was a man of faith, a man of principle and integrity. He was gentle and generous and gregarious. A great man, all the way… Continue reading
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Good Ol’ Boys Like Me
This article was first published in the March/April 2026 issue of North American Whitetail magazine. I swung open the doors of the swanky club just in time to see a silver-haired octogenarian pantomime what was plainly a bull moose raking… Continue reading
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Good, Old Fashioned Hate
This article was first published February 21, 2026, at fieldethos.com. I’m from Oklahoma, born and raised, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain. Do you know why the wind blows the way it does in the Sooner State? Because… Continue reading
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Shadow Magic
This article was first published in the December 2025/January 2026 issue of North American Whitetail magazine. Every deer hunter worth his doe pee knows to be on stand first thing in the morning and last thing in the afternoon. Whitetail… Continue reading
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The Fortune Cookie Buck
This article was first published December 6, 2025, at fieldethos.com. My teenage son is constantly hungry. Shocker, right? But we literally can’t fill the kid up. So, when he finished his own fast food value meal and started in on… Continue reading
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The Delicate Question
This article was first published January 4, 2025, at fieldethos.com. Better writers than I have told the tale of the whaling ship, the Essex, and the sperm whale that sunk her, including Herman Melville of Moby Dick fame. I won’t… Continue reading
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Seeking Shelter
This article was first published November 17, 2025 at tombeckbe.com. “If you freeze out, go sit in the truck.” Those were my dad’s last words, whispered to me just before he disappeared into the darkness. I watched the beam of… Continue reading
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Gift of Seasons Past
It was my first deer rifle, and as it’s turned out, that’s made it the only first gun that matters. Continue reading









