By Nick Simonson I’ve been prone to some idiotic moments in the outdoors, such as toting an unloaded shotgun racked over my shoulders on the way back from a long walk in the field, when all of a sudden birds start flushing; or missing a buck standing broadside at 20 yards with my bow because […]

By Nick Simonson Our time in the outdoors, much like life, is defined by the successes and amazing events that live on in memory and require no photograph or journal entry to remind oneself, or perhaps a group of close friends around the campfire, of what happened. A simple “do you remember that time when…” […]

By Nick Simonson The tinny buzz of the mosquito hovering annoyingly close to my ear was almost enough to distract me from completing the draw on my bow string and setting up the umpteenth arrow of the day.  With a sideways exhale that pushed the micro-menace away for a few more seconds, I steadied and […]

By Nick Simonson There was nothing subtle about the take that came along the stand of watershield leaves which partially covered the surface of the clear shallows.  A solid bump elicited the hyperspastic reel-down on my baitcaster and the sweeping hookset which followed.  Where most of the one-to-two-pound fish had been rocketed out of the […]