The Wild Life

The fall and winter of 1997-98 was a banner time in my life. It was my senior year of high school, and I’d be departing for the Univer...

I attended  Duette   Park 's mandatory hunting orientation last Saturday morning.  Manatee   County  runs the show and, to my know...

We spied five or six hogs slinking along a wet-weather pond on the edge of a palm hammock around 5 in the afternoon. At 250-300 yards an...

A lot of wild hogs are going to die in Florida this fall and winter. The signs are everywhere for a fine season. I’m seeing rooting everywhe...

Like singing in the shower, cutting into a herd of hogs with an AR-15 is an unbridled joy. I could have popped the first one easy enough, bu...

I wish I’d taken more pictures, but I didn't want to stop the action and burn daylight for the camera. Get while the gettin’s good. So a...

The neighbor who owns the cattle lease is trapping hogs? I just didn’t buy it from Mike. The claim was pure conjecture. He had no real evide...

Well, Mike shot the 40-pound red boar for a BBQ. He called a few people to see if they’d want fresh pork but solicited little interest. Out ...

Have you ever hunted by a feeder when the hogs start trotting in? It’s quite the cacophony. The urgent hoofbeats and grunting. Greedy bugger...

Originally posted May 2009 Hunters are no more immune from stereotyping than any other group of humans. Say a newcomer strolls into camp tot...

I wish there were a way for me to gain some measure of reprisal against Mother Nature for sabotaging my deer season. Simple air pollution fr...