by maggie | Jun 27, 2019 | Featured, Nature & Conservation |
You know that feeling you sometimes get when you see a photograph, and it calls to you as if you were looking at a work of art? Everywhere around us, whether we live on the coast or in the country, nature has provided us with a beautiful canvas from which we can...
by maggie | May 29, 2019 | Featured, Lifestyle, Recipes- The Harvest |
“Eating quail with my fingers and nibbling slowly around the bones so I don’t bite into a pellet, made me feel like I was on Naked and Afraid, and just got my first bite of food after a week in the bush.” —Comment from one of my dinner guests June is one of my...
by maggie | May 19, 2019 | Featured |
It’s that time of year again when I realize that hunting—for the most part—is over until the fall. I can’t help but feel a sense of the blues coming on, since hunting is an integral part of my life. I am trying to turn my blues into a refreshed sense of...
by maggie | May 4, 2019 | Featured, Turkey Hunting |
Sharing some humbling events from hunts this season so far . . . When you try to be a turkey stalker you might end up with mud on your face Things got off to a pretty messy start, with Opening Day temps in the mid-30s, high winds, but no rain. For weeks, I had put a...
by maggie | Mar 27, 2019 | Featured, Female Friendly Destinations, Quail Hunting |
“The Dream Team” & husbands You know that feeling of familiarity—you go to your favorite restaurant and order the exact same dish, every time. It’s vacation time, and you make your annual trek to your favorite beach resort, not because you have one of...
by maggie | Mar 1, 2019 | Hunting Tales |
“Without hunters, there will be no wildlife or habitat. Save the Habitat. Save the Hunt.” —National Wild Turkey Federation Prepping my blind area I wake up and try to remember—it is the “off season”. My hubby reminds me almost daily, but my mind swirls with thoughts...
by maggie | Feb 1, 2019 | Critter Hunting, Featured |
Part 1: Maggie & Kim on the hunt! It’s not what you think . . . we are hunting partners. Kim Davis and I have been hunting whitetails together for the past couple of months and now, something unexpected that appeared on the trail camera has us up in arms—a bobcat!...
by maggie | Jan 1, 2019 | Deer Hunting, Featured |
“One does not hunt in order to kill. One kills in order to have hunted.”–From Meditations on Hunting by Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) Every January, I like to look back over the previous 12 months and reflect on the wonderful times I had doing...
by maggie | Dec 30, 2018 | Dove Hunting, Recipes- The Harvest, Wing Shooting |
Tugging, pulling, plucking feathers . . . “Why would anyone want to do this?” my hubby complained. “Don’t you know that the skin is the best part of the gamebird?” I retorted. I had finally talked him into helping me pluck feathers after years of using only the...
by maggie | Dec 25, 2018 | Featured, Guest Bloggers, Recipes- The Harvest |
Some of our hunting seasons in Maine start and end in chilly or downright frigid weather. After I climb down from the stand, walk through the woods and up the hill through deep snow and arrive back at camp, I want something warm to drink even before food. It’s too...
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