Off-Season
Like most sports, hunting has its off-season. For me this runs basically from March until September, with a brief interlude for turkey hunting in April. My off-season follows a predictable pattern of rest, review, planning...
Author: Mike Dwyer
Dave Petzal on the Aurora Shooting
I know it’s bad blogging form to block quote an entire post of someone else’s but I just thought this was really insightful. Dave Petzal has been one of the gun writers for Field...
Advice for My College Freshman
My oldest daughter starts college in a few weeks. She’s going to live on campus and she’s pretty excited. I’m happy for her but sad she’s not going to be under my roof. Because I...
Batman Goes to the Doctor
The first 10 seconds of this makes me wonder if the script writers for Batman: The Dark Knight Rises read our site. Maybe Russell has a copyright case?
Hunters and the NRA
Lily Raff McCaulou is part of a new generation of hunters that has come about in the last few years. These hunters are an offshoot of the locavore movement which is made up of...
One of My Favorite Recipes
From The Splendid Table’s: How to Eat Supper (dish pictured on the cover of the book). I’ll be making this to take to a cookout this weekend. Dip some good bread in the leftover sauce...
102 Degrees
A big heat wave is supposed to hit the Southeast tomorrow. For a guy who is most happy in the winter months this is not something I am looking forward to. When I was...
Innovating Towards Unemployment
In my day job I work as an analyst with a very large Fortune 500 company. The part of our business that I work for involves helping clients manage their supply chain. As part of that...
An Inequality of Results
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on inequality. You can read the introductory post for the Symposium here. To see a list of all posts in the Symposium so far, click...
Friday Poetry
I’ve been trying something new lately. I have been taking books with me on my hunting trips. Often I have a little down time because the animals are not always active when I want them...
Economic Development Subsidies
I stumbled across an old piece from the Drum Major Institute which discusses the problem of billions of dollars in incentives being given to companies in return for locating within a state and the small amount...
How We Watch TV
From Graeme McMillan at Spinoff: And then there are the shows that I accidentally skip out of synch with and all of a sudden, there’s a terrifying backlog of: Seven episodes of Mad Men?...
Enough Already
From the Rural Blog: Over half of American adults favor “legalizing and regulating marijuana similar to the way alcohol and tobacco cigarettes are currently regulated,”
Heritage Hunting
I load my rifle, put on my game bag and lock my truck 30 minutes after sunrise. After walking a few yards I bend down to hide my keys in a clump of mustard...
Minorities Now in the Majority
Recent census figures show that for the first time more than half the children born in the U.S. were minorities.
The Teenage Heroics of John Howard Griffin
“1. When I was 15, I was taking the El late at night in Chicago. While I was waiting, I saw two very young children, a boy (about 6) and a girl (about 4),...
Bullygate
There was a quote from some political pundit a few years ago that talked about the price of being president. I am paraphrasing here but the point was basically that we, as Americans, elect...
Summer Movies
The kids and I went to see The Avengers last night. This was the official beginning of the summer movie season for us. The movie itself was a perfect start. It was big. It...
Walking in the Footsteps of Pioneers
“Patrick Henry Esq., Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all whom these presents shall come greeting. Know ye that by virtue and in consideration of a land office treasury…there is granted by the...
