Posted by sportsman on December 22nd, 2009 at 06:44 PM | 1 Comment
Around five years ago I noticed what looked like a single deer track in my backyard. Our house backs up to several hundred acres of woods, so I put a salt block out at the woodline and started watching for deer. I started seeing more and more tracks, and eventually saw the deer themselves.
With the explosion in the deer population, they are found almost anywhere these days, so having them in our back yard is not unique, but I still enjoy seeing them back there. This past summer I built a feeder for them, and I put corn into it on a pretty regular basis. I've got a trail camera watching the corn, and from time to time I get some good pictures.
The pictures below are unique in that the first one has seven does in it. I've seen as many as 10 at one time back there, but for the most part only five visit the yard with any regularity. The second is rare because we almost never see bucks back there. I've seen a few over the years, including one really big one once, but the two here are ones that I had never seen or captured on camera.
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Posted by sportsman on November 18th, 2009 at 06:52 AM | 0 Comments
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Followers of this website will be well aware that I think that John Eldredge is one of the greatest Christian teachers of our time. Having been to his "Wild at Heart" boot camp in Colorado, and having heard him speak a few other times at various venues, I'm compelled to recommend the new book that he and his wife have written. They'll be touring early next year, and I highly recommend that you try to get a chance to see them if you can. They'll be in several different locations around the country in January and February, so try your best to find an event near you. |
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Posted by sportsman on November 12th, 2009 at 08:31 AM | 1 Comment
The Wingshooters website layout has not undergone a real change since the summer of 2003. In light of that, I was getting a little bit tired of the way it looked and how much work I had to do just to add an entry to the main page, so I decided that it was time to redesign the entire site.
As you can see, we have an entirely new look and feel. My initial hopes for the site were that it would be a source for outdoor news and product reviews, and that it would also be a battleground where we would fight the idiocy of liberalism as it relates to items like guns, hunting, and religion. In the end, I just didn't have time to keep up with all of the research necessary to keep the site current.
So, to that end, I have removed all of the outdoor news, as well as several other items that I felt were not relevant to the new direction of the site. The main page will now contain articles on whatever I feel like writing about on any given day. My hunting journals will still be online, and will have a new and more modern look.
You may encounter broken links and other problems with the site for the next few weeks as I continue to work on the final product. Thanks, as always, for stopping by.