Link Repository

This year Colorado voters are being presented with a ballot measure, Colorado Amendment 83, that would enshrine the ‘Right to Hunt and Fish’ in the State’s constitution. While many might on its face believe that it probably isn’t necessary, it would seem that the last few years have seen a good deal of attacks on …

Recently proposed Pennsylvania legislation, if passed, would allow non-resident hunters with ties to the Keystone state to pay resident license fees. The idea being to bring more hunting, and more economic stimulation to Pennsylvania. Under the current laws a a resident hunting license is a little over $20 whereas a non-resident license over $100. This …

The last few months, if not years have been tough on myself, and the family. We’ve had health issues both with one of my children, and our Gordon setter Abbey. My daughter sprung back and is her usual feral self once more. Time fading since her illness. However Abbey had her tumor come back. Between …

Yesterday I ran up to camp on my day off with the intention of clearing my driveway of snow mid season. The problem with owning a place where it snows a lot is that if you’re not there doing maintenance, sometimes it snows a lot. Go figure, right? So usually by now there’s multiple feet …

Kremmling Colorado is a small mountain town at the northern end of the Gore range, and the southern end of Colorado’s Middle Park. The population sits right at around 1500 people, and is hailed as the Sportsman’s Paradise. Honestly, I can’t fault them for that moniker. It’s ease of access and availability of public land …

Colorado OTC elk second rifle has been the sweet spot for my friends and I since I moved to Colorado in 2018, starting big game hunting in 2019. It offers availability and a nearest-to-the-rut non-draw rifle season that’s hard to pass up. I can save my elk points for an eventual hunt somewhere like the …

Literally. As elk seasons are beginning to kick off in the Centennial state, it’s important to know that there has been a lot of fire activity in the region. We gathered data from WatchDuty, InciWeb and local news sources to provide some tables below as to the compounding effects of the fire activity as well …

After several years of owning our place in Kremmling and daydreaming of the Flat Tops Wilderness, an area extolled by some of my coworkers as one of the coolest places they’d ever been — we decided to plan a day trip. Well one day trip turned to multiple, and the ease of access from our …

You may have noticed some changes to the 2025 Elk season here in Colorado. The most notable change is that in areas that there were previously OTC elk tags and cow tags on the B list, those cow tags are now on the A list. What does that mean? That means that instead of getting …

If you’re like me, you’re not overly fond of the CPW website redesign. Information on the site, particularly the mobile site, seems way harder to find. When you do find it, the interface seems kludgy and unusable. There’s expands where they don’t need to be, when a table of data will do. That said, I’ve …

It was time for elk and mule deer camp again, second rifle in Colorado. It’s a busy time in the area where we tend to make camp. It’s also an arms race to get the best spots. Coming in Friday afternoon for a Saturday opener just doesn’t cut it anymore. So when I arrived to …

This year we returned to our car camping spot for elk and mule deer. Car camping allows for some amount of luxury that our previous backcountry hike and spike in adventures didn’t. We have a propane heater with our Big Buddy, we have a toilet seat over a pit, it’s practically the resort town of …

This ice fishing season a buddy and I decided to team up for the Eagle Claw / Shappell ice fishing tournament in Lake George, Colorado. Put on by the Eleven Mile Marina at the Eleven Mile Reservoir there were 160 teams in total able to sign up, each consisting of two people. This was my …

A few seasons ago I was on the search for a camp shoe that was warm enough, and supportive enough for my needs. My wife has vetoed using Crocs, which have long had a soft spot in many a camper and hiker’s hearts. It’s apparently just a no-go for her. But when I came back …

A little while ago I was able to add a Humminbird Helix 7 to my ice fishing kit. This was a game changer. It allowed to not only use flasher settings but also be able to “see” below me with sonar. However, like most used equipment I had to dive in and maintain it where …