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Mooselette Passes Hunter Ed
2024-03-18 14:05
A very proud Grandpa wishes to welcome another generation into the fold. Last night, I got word from Daddy Moose that 12 year old Mooselette has passed Hunter Education, scoring 93%.Congrat… Read More
PODCAST: Foxtrot Charlie @ The Honey Hole
2024-03-15 14:44
Foxtrot Charlie is a buddy of mine. He’s been a big game hunter for decades, and only recently got interested in domestic offerings. I invited him to Deer Camp last fall. He had a ball… Read More
PODCAST: Peyton Place At The Honey Hole
2024-03-13 14:23
This was my first time out to the Honey Hole this year. The turkeys have been very active due to a warm end to the winter. I had hens and gobblers sounding off over a 10 acre patch with me… Read More
Obeying The Voices
2024-03-09 11:50
Back in May of last year, I wrote this: 44 Magnum — It won’t leave me alone I ordered a Rossi Model 92 stainless in 44 Mag with a 24-inch barrel yesterday. I could be wri… Read More
Another Trip To Turkey Camp
2024-02-22 12:20
I went back down to Turkey Camp yesterday. I had several projects that needed work, and I wanted to get out and listen to the turkeys. First off, let me describe yesterday morning’… Read More
2024-02-10 12:11
This is the earliest I’ve tried to return to camp in 20-some seasons. A good deal of it is because I’m retired now. In the past, I had to wait until the weekends. Last year, I wa… Read More
2024-02-02 15:35
Yikes. I went to visit here early in the week, just checking in. I’ve invested 19 years and 4 months into this booger, and it contains the sum total of not only the bulk of what I&rsqu&hell…Read More
2024-01-28 16:40
Two years ago, I got a Hornady Auto-Charge from Natchezss.com. At the time, I likened the transaction to dragging a topwater lure over a largemouth bass repeatedly. After repeatedly presen… Read More
2024-01-14 13:42
It just turned over 90 days until the Spring Gobbler Opener in Kentucky. It is 12F and the wind is gusting to 24 MPH. Believe me, today is not the day to start scouting. So when? It al… Read More
2023-12-29 12:14
I’m not one of those guys who dreams of turkey hunting all year. By the time mid-May comes around, I’m pretty well done with the whole thing. Don’t get me wrong; I love… Read More
GP100 — A Long Time Coming
2023-12-19 15:21
This story really starts back in Regan’s first term. I got into shooting shortly after college. My main focus was hunting, but I also enjoyed plinking. To that end, my buddy Jerry o… Read More
2023-12-08 12:49
I just saw this posted: So it wasn’t just our ridge that sucked. Interesting. Related posts: Deer Season Recap 2018 What Makes the Perfect Deer Rifle — PT 2 Th… Read More
Tag Soup, 2024
2023-12-05 16:14
The title really says it all. It has been quite a while since I ate tag soup at Deer Camp. Not only did I not hit anything, I went through Early Muzzleloader and all of Rifle Season not dr… Read More
2023-11-21 12:49
We decided to pull out after the Sunday morning hunt. This was after originally planning to hunt up until the rain hit on Tuesday. SuperCore had a doe. Moose had his monster that’… Read More
Report From Deer Camp
2023-11-17 14:58
I suppose an apology is in order. This has been a hard season for me. When things go right, I’ve usually gotten some meat on the pole by now and had a chance to relax a bit and g… Read More
2023-11-08 14:45
As Patriarch of our deer camp, I am proud to announce that a new probationary member has been added to the Shamanic Dream Team. Foxtrot Charlie will be joining us at camp starting on Sunday… Read More
Homebrew Black Powder
2023-11-08 11:20
This is a project that really started a year and a half ago, just before I started Chemo. I had just purchased a Pedersoli Brown Bess musket and went looking for some black powder to feed i… Read More
2023-10-31 14:39
It has been a few weeks since I could post anything meaningful about the farm, and here it is, almost time to open Deer Camp. Let me get y’all caught up.Pre-Season This is the v… Read More
2023-10-31 12:10
The migration team at BlueHost seems to have cleaned up all the trouble left over from the move from FatCow. The site itself was moved two weeks ago. The problem was I could not make posts… Read More
2023-10-13 10:26
After over a decade with FatCow as my web host, I am in the process of packing up and moving to its parent company BlueHost. The reasons for this move are better performance and fewer outag… Read More
Wash, Rinse, Repeat
2023-10-03 11:55
I was preparing to write a report on this past weekend, and I looked up in the left corner and saw this post from last year. Getting Ready for Yute Season, 2022 It’s not li… Read More
2023-09-27 14:05
Hunting Scrape Lines and Rub Lines? #18774460 09/20/23OP tzone Campfire ‘Bwana T Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 45,943Just The TipHow many of you hunt scrapes and rub lines?I’ve not ha… Read More
2023-09-18 11:45
I have not felt much like writing for the past few weeks. There has been so much to do. However, I did finally manage to get back out to the farm and get some stuff done. I started off by… Read More
2023-08-28 12:33
My mother died on Saturday. She was 96. She has been in Assisted Living for 12 years since Dad died. I’ve been visiting her nearly every day.When we got the farm, the original idea… Read More
Squirrel Opener, 2023
2023-08-23 11:32
We were all down last weekend to camp for the fall Squirrel Opener. Moose managed a Hat Trick Saturday morning. I dug around and found one nearly like it from when Moose was still a teena… Read More
2023-08-14 18:18
I just published a new installment on my Youtube Channel. Please have a look, and be sure to hit Notify and Subscribe. Related posts: The Shaman on Youtube Ode to a 30-30 Pt 2… Read More
Jagendehütte– A Hunting Blind Profile
2023-08-09 15:10
One of our camp’s most productive hunting venues is Jagendehütte, the hunting shed. It is the favorite haunt of our senior member, SuperCore. He spends most of rifle season in t… Read More
A Cartridge Box For ‘Bess
2023-08-06 19:43
After I got my Pedersoli Brown Bess last year, I started realizing how different this was than any other firearm I owned. The ‘Bess was normally fed a diet of paper cartridges. A bo… Read More
2023-08-01 11:48
This month marks the beginning of my 20th year doing the weblog. I’m starting something new, a Youtube Channel. In invite you to watch, and be sure to hit the notify and subscribe b… Read More
Trip To The Farm
2023-07-24 17:06
The weather was going to be ideal, so I took the opportunity to ride down to the farm and get some chores done. Most of the weekend was spent dealing with the water system. I ended up repla… Read More
2023-07-15 09:21
Now that I’m retired, I’ve been looking for something to keep me occupied. When Remnar was out a few summers ago, he brought along a drone and shot some really nice video of th… Read More
What Deer Rifles This Year, Shaman?
2023-06-24 11:33
Every year, my whole cabinet of deer rifles erupts with cries of “Take me!”One of the hardest things I have to do is come up with a final list of what’s going and what&rsqu&hell…Read More
2023-06-17 18:44
Back over Memorial Day, I had the Brown Bess for an exercise to see what size ball shot the best. Last year, I was rather pressed for time and just took the conventional route and shot .69… Read More
European Mount From 2022 Is On The Wall
2023-06-14 20:05
I dug up the head from my 2022 buck over Memorial Day Weekend and I’ve been cleaning and bleaching it. I let it dry all last week and today I mounted it on the wall. This all start… Read More
Memorial Day Weekend, 2023
2023-05-30 13:29
I made it down on Thursday– it’s great to be retired–and was able to spend Friday morning at the bench without interruption getting two projects figured out.25-06 Mauser… Read More
2023-05-12 11:56
“Hunting 16 of 22 days and only getting one bird? Shaman, ol buddy! What went wrong?” Nothing went wrong. It all fell together. It just did not fall together in a pleasing… Read More
2023-05-06 17:37
It was a little over a year ago that I trudged out with a bird. The Cancer was back. I was starting Chemo in a few weeks. That might have been my last hunt. Here it is, a year later. The… Read More
2023-04-30 13:10
Things have been rough out here at the farm this season. Everything about the turkeys has been delayed. I have never hunted so many days in a season before, and I can tell you the action… Read More
2023-04-22 17:11
I have been experiencing a complete dearth of huntable gobblers all through the first week of season. Oh, I’ve been hearing them, and hearing hens as well. It has just been one day… Read More
2023-04-17 18:09
Never in the 20+ seasons I have been to our camp, have I seen such optimal weather for a Turkey Opener. When Mooselette and I put our rumps down at the Honey Hole, it was 62F, no wind, and… Read More
2023-04-08 18:54
It was a bit windy, but I made it out to the Honey Hole. I was surrounded by gobblers and hens. At one point, the nearest gob flew down from his roost about 50 yards from me and made a bee… Read More
2023-04-02 12:05
This year was most honorable #1 Granddaughter’s first attempt at a turkey hunt while fully armed. Mooselette had been out with me on several turkey hunts over the years. This was her… Read More
2023-03-31 13:58
It was good to be back at the Honey Hole. Frankly, it’s just a good time to BE. I managed to connect with some gobblers, including the latest incarnation of the Virginia Rambler… Read More
2023-03-21 16:50
Mooselette came down with Daddy Moose last night. She’s on Spring Break. We went out this morning with the recording equipment and spent the hour bracketing sunrise listening for bir… Read More
2023-03-20 09:08
Have you ever had a hard time getting a chambering out of your head? Let me tell you my story. See if this sounds familiar. Let’s start back to 30 or so years ago. Back then, I was… Read More
2023-03-16 15:04
It’s been a little over a year now since my retirement. The Chemo kept me from reloading most of that time, and I just got back to it after New Year’s. Mostly it was about stami… Read More
2023-03-09 12:27
Here is a Youtub e on some greatly-needed research into what’s going on with the turkeys in Kentucky Related posts: Kentucky Fall Rules are Out Kentucky Fall Rules Are Out N… Read More
2023-03-06 20:52
Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources has released the rules for the Spring Hunting Seasons.There are no big changes. This summarizes what few there are: Here is the whole… Read More
2023-03-02 20:54
I made it back to the Farm for the first time since the end of Deer Season. Now that I’m retired, I can go went the weather is best and not try to shoe-horn things into the weekends… Read More
2023-02-20 18:09
This AM, SuperCore and I ventured north of Arcadia, Florida to hunt boar. It took about 90 minutes to drive from SuperCore’s place in Bradenton. Our destination was RazzorRanch in Zo… Read More
2023-02-16 18:23
I flew down to meet SuperCore in Bradenton, Florida this week in preparation for a hog hunt later next week. Today we went out to the City Pier and tried some fishing.We were mostly bothe… Read More
2023-02-10 11:49
I haven’t packed heat since the Cancer diagnosis back in April. The Chemo made me too unsteady to make it worthwhile. Angus bought me a nice CC vest for Christmas. I’ve been me… Read More
2023-02-06 17:07
This is a bit of a detective story, but there is no dead body. There is no crime. I’m the perpetrator. This should be easy, but it has been tough. The Chemo last summer left me with… Read More
2023-02-01 12:17
I was playing with AI the past few days and I tried feeding ChatGPT a title “Turkey Hunting Tips and Tricks” and letting it write a script. I then fed it to Pictory to build a v… Read More
2023-01-19 11:03
I have had an idea rolling around in my head for some time, and I have finally gotten it to gel.  I thought I would throw it up here, and have y’all comment on it. First off… Read More
2023-01-09 11:34
I’ve been at it now for over 40 seasons. I write for the outdoors, I’ve been a pro-staffer, and I’ve made a bunch of calls.Let me let you in on a basic truth: turkey calls… Read More
2022-12-28 09:00
This installment of the series will conclude with what was going on at my reloading bench and the final payoff. In looking back on what I have shared so far, getting the right mindset and… Read More
2022-12-23 09:24
This installment will address what I did out in the field to escape from Planet 4 MOA. This is going to be a short one. Most of the serious work was done back home at the shooting bench… Read More
Escape From Planet 4 MOA– Part 3
2022-12-18 09:05
This installment in the series will concentrate on what I did at the bench, both the shooting bench and my gunsmithing bench, to improve my accuracy with my deer rifles. I would like to re… Read More
2022-12-14 11:49
The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears. James Mattis In this case, General Mattis was right. I had over 20 years of goo to remove and replace… Read More
2022-12-08 16:54
Back in 2019, I wrote a missive on 24hourcampfire.com on hunting deer where the bar for accuracy was rather low. The Planet Where They Shoot 4 MOA Rifles I would suggest you go over th… Read More
Deer Season Post Mortem, 2022
2022-12-04 13:34
Any discussion of this past Rifle Season has to include the after-effects of my Chemo and how it played into the dynamics. It played into stand selection. It played into who hunted and when… Read More
Moose Bags Doe
2022-11-28 12:31
Most honorable #2 son, Moose shot a doe Friday evening at the Blackberry stand . At 1740, just 10 minutes left in legal hunting. A single doe popped out of the woods next to the rockpile… Read More
Angus, SuperCore Score Bucks
2022-11-19 18:09
Angus and Moose braved the 18F and went out to Midway this morning. They had just settled in when Angus noticed a doe running across the south field, behind the Garden of Stone. An 8-point… Read More
The Shaman’s Buck, 2022
2022-11-14 21:22
I really did not have great expectations when I went out to Midway this morning. I managed to fall back to sleep after SuperCore left for the blind and managed to doze for 45 minutes before… Read More
Deer Opener, 2022
2022-11-12 19:37
Some days, just being out and making it back in is the highest achievement you can expect. After Chemo, just being out is all you can ask. We started getting rain about 10 minutes before… Read More
European Mounts
2022-11-07 17:12
For years now, I have been sawing off the skull cap of bucks and mounting these to display boards, and calling it quits. Of course, I have to boil them first, but the whole process is rath… Read More
2022-11-04 11:49
I found this draft from back in 2009. Somebody had asked the question, and I’d hesitated to answer. The post lay in draft status until I found it again over the summer as I was house… Read More
2022-10-30 11:03
I’ve got a couple projects in the oven this year even though Chemo made me curtail most of my load development for 6 months. There just is not enough room in the freezer to do all the… Read More
2022-10-23 10:54
Back in the spring, I had just come from the appointment with the oncologist where I had scheduled my Chemo treatments. I drove out to the farm and went turkey hunting the next day. I bagg… Read More
The Shaman Goes Deep Art
2022-10-21 11:13
A while back, I found a site called Deep Art. You feed it a couple of pictures and basically tell it: “Make this pic look like that pic.” It cogitates for a bit and then spits… Read More
2022-10-13 13:24
Every year we all get out for the mid-October Kentucky Early Primitive Weapons Season and use it as a dry run for the coming Rifle season. Some might think this is a waste of a weekend. It… Read More
Mooselette’s First Yute Hunt
2022-10-09 07:57
Most honorable #1 granddaughter, Mooselette, went afield for KY’s Yute Hunt on Saturday. She went in the company of her grandfather. This was my first time out as well since the Che… Read More
Getting Ready For Yute Season, 2022
2022-10-03 11:21
I was able to get down to camp fairly early on Friday. By the time Moose and #1 granddaughter, Mooselette arrived, I had already managed to get two more deer rifles sighted in. Both the 8X… Read More
More With ‘Bess
2022-09-25 14:02
I finally got a chance to have some quality time with ‘Bess, just her and me. Up until now, there have always been Moose and Angus sharing the firing line, and all sorts of other co… Read More
2022-09-24 12:51
From Quora: Question for YouAugust 5 What is the best time to get in your deer stand? Greg Thomas requested your answer. What is the best time to get in your deer stand? H… Read More
Anniversary Weekend, 2022
2022-09-19 10:20
This weekend marked the 21st anniversary of taking possession of our farm. It also marked the first time I’ve felt halfway normal since the Chemo ended. I was actually able to get ar… Read More
2022-09-11 09:01
It may not seem like much to anyone, but I had a personal triumph yesterday. It is something I planned well before starting Chemo. It was a close run operation, but I did it. I managed to… Read More
2022-09-08 08:25
From an email: Oh great shaman! I’ve been offered a rifle for deer hunting that is in 308 Winchester. Is that a good choice? Should I hold out for a 6.5 Creedmore? I guess… Read More
2022-09-02 08:57
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources (KDFWR) is investigating the reason turkey harvest numbers have been slipping. This past year’s harvest was well below average… Read More
A Trip To The Berlin Basket
2022-08-31 08:25
I have been making it to the farm every weekend since I got well enough to travel. This past Friday, I called my neighbor, Blacksmith to see what he was up to. He was over in the county… Read More
2022-08-26 08:59
But Shaman, if the deer are blind, how can they read? I have a Kindle Reader App installed on my Android phone. You would be surprised at the number of free and 99-cent books that Amazon… Read More
2022-08-20 14:05
Moose and Angus celebrated KY’s 2022 Fall Squirrel Opener this morning, bagging a brace of gray squirrels each. Related posts: Squirrel Opener 2018 Squirrel Opener 2017 Sham… Read More
2022-08-19 09:57
Every year I get asked what’s a good deer rifle. I’ve been writing deer rifle recommendations for close on to two decades. Rather than beat that horse again, I want to discuss t… Read More
2022-08-14 09:43
It just turned over 13 weeks to the Rifle Opener. I do not usually make predictions on how the upcoming Rifle Season is going to go. I do have my suspicions, and when compared with reality… Read More
2022-08-07 10:24
When the surgeon told me last summer that I had cancer, the first thing I asked him was whether or not I could be in my stand for the November Rifle Opener. He said I undoubtedly could. He w… Read More
2022-08-02 10:41
I turned 64 over the weekend. The whole tribe dropped over to wish me well. My favorite present had to be the new Stormy Kromer that Angus gave me. It’s Hunter Orange.This is my sec… Read More
2022-07-31 09:03
I’m trying to catch up on all of what has happened in the previous months. I discovered a draft of an entry I was about to make just as this whole cancer thing kicked off.You see, I wa… Read More
2022-07-23 08:25
I’d just made it home from the hospital a few weeks ago, and I was weak enough to feel super-glued to my recliner. Moose and Mooselette stopped over to see how I was doing. I was so… Read More
2022-07-22 14:33
Yesterday, I completed my last visit to Chemo Camp. Moose snapped a picture. It ain’t all that pretty. I’m down a good 40 lbs. I’d just had a good stiff hit of anti-nau… Read More
2022-07-07 11:50
Mind you, I still consider myself the luckiest guy out there. It was just by chance they measured my HCG Turmor Marker back in early April and found the cancer was back. I had my third r… Read More
2022-06-02 08:23
I figure now would be a good time to let y’all know how it’s going. I did not want you to be thinking I was all curled up in a ball somewhere with tubes coming out of me in all… Read More
2022-05-07 11:21
Cancer has a nasty way of screwing up a Turkey Season. I did not want to call things off entirely. As it was, I left the oncologist’s on Thursday of Opening Week with a firmed-u… Read More
A Walk Along Vine Street
2022-04-28 12:00
Walking out from the Honey Hole the other day presented me with a bit of a logistics problem. I had only a half-mile or so to walk, but I was schlepping a 23 lb bird on my back. I am due… Read More

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