Field Notes
rants. raves. ruminations.
photos. philosophies. films.
poems. plagiarisms. parodies.
stories. soliloquies. solitude.
words. witticisms. wonderment.
photos. philosophies. films.
poems. plagiarisms. parodies.
stories. soliloquies. solitude.
words. witticisms. wonderment.
Casey Robinson’s State Record Ram
I remember like it was yesterday—my wife calling and asking what tag from Game & Fish costs $300 because they had just pulled it from our account. My response: “If you’re not playing a sick joke on me, it means
Lance Mitchell: 30 Mile Ram
Seeing your name next a draw result that says “Successful” for Desert Bighorn is indescribable. Realizing immediately after that you’ve just left a job with 6 weeks vacation and the new job only gave you 7 days for this year
The Irony of Life and Death and Hunting and Hunters
I grew up in a small town in eastern Arizona where hunting was a way of life… a rite of passage amongst friends, family, and a rural community with a deep connection to the land and animals around it. I
How social media is ruining hunting
I recently had a conversation with a friend about a Facebook feud between two outfitters and their surrogates last week. It happens every year, every month, and nearly every day. It’s often worse on forums, and is one of the
Featured Ram: Ray Long’s Colorado Rocky
Hunter: Ray Long State: Colorado Species: Rocky Year: 2011 “After 14 years waiting and 13 years of applying I had finally drawn a Colorado Rocky Mountain Bighorn Ram Tag from that moment on till the opening day of Sheep season
Featured Ram: Sam Heffelfinger’s Cataract Ram
Hunter: Sam HeffelfingerSheep: Desert BighornState: ArizonaDate: October 2012 Sam was fortunate to draw a desert sheep tag in a very tough-to-hunt unit in Arizona. It was an especially busy year, as Sam was also engaged and planned to be married
Featured Ram: Cody Voermans’ Citadel Ram
It was late afternoon on the sixth day of my 10-day combo hunt for moose and Dall sheep with Arctic Red River Outfitters. Strangely, I found myself resting comfortably in base camp. My feet were propped up on a wooden
Featured Ram: Matthew Murphy’s Shut Down Ram
Sometimes you get lucky. In 2013, at the ripe old age of 29, I won a public lottery tag for bighorn sheep in Idaho’s unit 27-L. The hunt was exciting by nature: remote area, difficult access, hard to draw, “any
Featured Ram: Matt Cutlip’s Desert
Hunter: Matthew Cutlip Sheep: Desert Bighorn State: Arizona Date: Dec/2014 Matt is a competitive archer and is known for killing monster Coues deer in the desert country of southern Az. In 2014 he drew a once-in-a-lifetime sheep tag in a