Certainly appreciate vintage decoys, calls and whatnot, but have to say one of the most surreal things I’ve ever experienced was attending the American Sporting Collectibles Show they used to (perhaps still do) hold at the Medina Entertainment Center in the western suburbs. So, so much cool old stuf...

Fortunate that nearly all of my relatives farm, so never have to worry about places to hunt. We are in slug zone, and that’s all I’ve ever done. I’ve hunted the same stand on my grandparents farm since I’ve been 14 years old and shoot a deer every single year out of it, several years multiples and a...

Record warm temps in Alaska the last few Autumns to offset the (near)record cold here.

I lived in Fairbanks for a year in 02/03 attending UAF, and even then things were changing. The warmth is WAY worse for them than us overall as their current infrastructure essentially requires cold temps.

I’ve been out twice this season, the first 2 days of early goose. We had an awesome field and killed a ton of birds, so if that’s it for this year, so be it. My wife is wrapping up a year long process of studying for her CFP exam and we have 2 young kids at home. My weekends have been spent watching...

The guy that does all the photos/marketing is Lee Kjos. Can spot his work a mile away as it essentially all looks the same. That said, he is a legit waterfowl hunter and can’t hate on a guy for finding a niche and making a living as a marketer. Gotta work to your audience, and his audience just happ...

My buddies and I were talking about LQP while encased in our moldy layout blinds during early goose season. What happened to those birds? There used to be like 100K peak on LQP as recent as a decade or so ago, and now it peaks at like 5K I feel like. I’ve heard Winnipeg proper stacks up now, but fro...

Wolves definitely play a part, but think brain worm from whitetails is the main culprit. Same moose decline is happening in Maine (fairly certain) as the whitetails expand north there. Isle Royals is also sheltered from this variable. Prior to whitetails expanding en masse to northern Minnesota, the...

Daycare.

We have mortgages on 2 properties and still pay more each month for people to watch our 2 kids.

“Bartending/Serving really does suck.” You definitely/obviously worked at a terrible place. I worked “in the industry” for over a decade and eventually just sorta aged-out, on top of having a wife and small kids at the end. I’d jump back behind the bar tomorrow if I could handle it physically and ha...

When this is all over, the Kirk Cousins experiment will go down as a close 2nd, behind the Herschel Walker trade, as the worst personnel blunder in Vikings history.