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  • Extreme Makeover: Deer Edition

    My herd of homely does just isn’t capable of attracting magazine cover bucks. Continue reading

    Extreme Makeover: Deer Edition

  • Nature Knows

    This article was first published in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of Palomino County. It has been said that you can’t pour from an empty pitcher, but I seem to make a regular habit of it. In the line of work… Continue reading

    Nature Knows

  • Declaration of War

    This article was first published November 11, 2025, at fieldethos.com. I was raised in a conservative home and developed the belief at an early age that it was sinful to drink alcohol. I’m not sure if that’s what I was… Continue reading

    Declaration of War

  • One Flew Into the High Line Wire

    This article was first published November 4, 2025, at fieldethos.com. I couldn’t hit the broad side of a stationary barn, much less the head or vitals of a flushing pheasant. And I wasn’t happy about it. It was late in… Continue reading

    One Flew Into the High Line Wire

  • Something Worse

    We sat in the misery of memory for a minute; his fresh and raw, mine old and familiar. Continue reading

    Something Worse

  • Karamojo Bell

    This article was first published September 2, 2025, at fieldethos.com. My dad wasn’t loyal to any one rifle manufacturer. He shot them all and he shot them well. At the tail end of his hunting career, though, he decided he… Continue reading

    Karamojo Bell

  • The Viehscheid

    This article was first published September 16, 2025, at fieldethos.com. I was in south central Germany – Bavaria is beautiful in early autumn, by the way – living it up on the dime of a premium firearms manufacturer. The trip… Continue reading

    The Viehscheid

  • Counting Coup

    This article was first published August 24, 2025, at fieldethos.com. Among the Plains tribes of Native Americans, the most decisive victory in battle was declared not when an Indian brave arrowed his enemy from horseback or tomahawked the scalp from… Continue reading

    Counting Coup

  • The Flaming Fish

    This article was first published August 30, 2025, at fieldethos.com. Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. That’s what they say, anyway. For nearly forty years, my dad loved what he did working as… Continue reading

    The Flaming Fish

  • The Crocodile Attack of Ramree Island

    This article was first published August 14, 2025, at fieldethos.com. If you frequent this website, there’s a decent chance that you’ve heard the story of the man eaters of Tsavo, two maneless lions with a taste for human flesh that… Continue reading

    The Crocodile Attack of Ramree Island