BackcountryBowhunting

07/12/2025

I'm hanging out at the Bear Archery tent at the Total Archery Challenge at the Purgatory Ski Resort near Durango, CO

04/30/2025

I picked up a new hobby/side hustle. We got a laser cutter/engraver. Much more to come.

03/19/2025

Interesting article

Study: Concealed Carriers Stop More Active Shooters Than Police Do

Data compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) shows that armed civilians stop more mass shootings than police do.

02/16/2025

The sightings of uncollared wolves seems to be on the rise since the collarded ones were released. These nasty animals have been here for years, there was no reason to bring more in. I ran into one just south of Breckenridge back in 2003.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife investigated a wolf depredation case involving an uncollared wolf and a cow in Jackson County.

02/10/2025

Very close to home and extremely unwelcome

A gray wolf enters Teller County near the Florissant Fossil Beds area, according to a local hunting guide.

10/24/2024

Yesterday I was doing some maintenance of my HF antenna and had a few visitors. They weren't even willing to help - HOW RUDE!

10/09/2024

These are ham operators living in the path of the hurricane. They're reporting, live weather conditions.

THIS IS JUST A RETRANSMISSION OF WHAT'S HEARD OVER RADIO, AT THE HURRICANE WATCH NET FREQUENCY, DURING THE MILTON HURRICANE IN OCTOBER 2024.If you hear stati...

10/09/2024

I read this on Instagram. It rings true.

"When you understand that God is never late, you wait differently."

10/02/2024

For those who don't live in Colorado, the topic of reintroducing wolves is a highly heated topic. After the state released 10 wolves, ranchers are losing cattle to these "kill for fun" animals and the state is doing little to nothing to help.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - The plan to reintroduce more wolves into Colorado has drawn opinions from both sides of the argument. In the minds of ranchers, more wolves introduced might equal more cattle lost, and ranchers closer to home in mesa county are concerned that while no cattle deaths hav...

08/16/2024

The lighting was decent and we had some visitors this morning.

08/15/2024

Fun fact
Crickets can be used as a thermometer to approximate the temperature by counting the number of chirps they make in a given amount of time and applying a formula. This relationship is known as Dolbear's law, which states that the temperature in Fahrenheit can be calculated by adding 40 to the number of chirps per 15 seconds. For example, if a cricket chirps 26 times in 15 seconds, the temperature would be 65°F (25 + 40 = 65).

08/14/2024

Interesting

When ill-informed urban voters unleashed wolves on rural Colorado — by less than a 1% vote margin — they enacted a failure. Since introduction, wolves have...