The buck emerged from the trees at a fast trot during last light on the last day of the season. I had been still-hunting all day and assumed my season was over when he appeared. The adrenaline surge hit me like a train. I raised my muzzleloader and fired, dropping the buck in a cloud
Like many other red-blooded American hunters, my favorite movie growing up was “Jeremiah Johnson,” a 1972 film starring Robert Redford. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s a story of a man who leaves his life behind to become a mountain man. In the very beginning of the movie, as he steps off the
