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The “magic hour” had arrived when it was neither day nor night! And I’d been watching a shadowy figure moving in and out of the hardwoods below me for almost half an hour. This gray afternoon, with darkness slowly and gently overtaking me, was soon to...

Just sitting in a tree-stand today thinking about many different things, and whether you agree with me or not on this topic, I think it’s only right to give the 700-plus volunteers, over 50 organizations, and another 50-plus Massachusetts businesses,...

First things first! Today, I want to give a shout out to Dave Wattles, Black Bear Project Leader with MassWildlife for the terrific presentation he made earlier this month to the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife board of directors on black bear...

July 15, 2024, started off as a normal morning in the small town of Winsted, Conn., a small town located in Litchfield County with a population of roughly 7,000 people. Winsted is part of what they call the Northwest Hills Region, about a half-hour...

We all know it’s been very hot lately, to say the least, but hey, it’s summertime and it’s supposed to be hot, right? Just not this hot, I guess. Anyway, it’s still summertime… the fish are jumping, and living is easy. July and August usher in the...

A recent “My Turn” piece in the Recorder (Compromise needed on Sunday hunting June 7) brought a grin to my face when I read it. It was a well-written article by Mason Bassett, who reached out to me in early May, with his classmate Landon Smead, about...

Moving into the final week of turkey hunting season, hopefully you’ve already put a nice tom turkey on the table this spring – though we all know that it doesn’t always work out the way we want. Calendars fill up, the weather doesn’t cooperate, birds...

If I had a dime for every time someone asked me the best time to hunt turkeys during a season, I’d have a bucket full of dimes. Think about it for a minute, what are the factors that turkey hunters should be considering to best utilize their time when...

Here we are skirting along into the last week of January and I’m just getting my 2024 resolutions in under the wire before we say goodbye. Illness, and eventually COVID, have kept me down this month. Plus, the recent illness and passing of my dear...