This last week was a pivotal time for me. It was filled with late-night thoughts as I lie under the open sky, sipping bourbon and beer with two great friends in the middle of the Oklahoma sand dunes region and chasing bobwhite quail throughout the daylight hours. There were many ups and ...
By Dave Samuel MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Adventure Scientists is a volunteer nonprofit organization based out of Bozeman, Mont. Its mission is to collect data from the outdoors that will help the environment. In late September, it had 40 teams of cyclists ride along 2,600 miles of Montana ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL In March 2008, health officials in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa restricted the use of venison in food pantries because of fragments of lead bullets in the meat. Before that lead fragments were found in California condors that consumed gut piles from big ...
A few years ago, if I read the title of a newspaper article that said, ‘A week of shotgunning,’ I’d probably think the author had a drinking problem. But instead of pregaming a WVU football win or chugging cheap swill during Wednesday’s Mountaineers men’s basketball game ...
In my mind, it’s hard to choose what’s the best cut on a deer – the backstop or tenderloin. Either way, both are loins – backstrap is just the word we use to refer to the length of the two top loins on a deer that run along the spine – and provide delicious meals if done ...
This marks the second year I’ve made the pilgrimage to Stevensville, Md., to hunt sea ducks. If you’ve read a couple of my stories about forays with Capt. Brandon Moore and Chasin’ Tail Charters, you may remember that my very first sea duck came from my 2019 trip out on the Chesapeake ...