On Raising Pigs

Above – A cool day at pigland, on Squirrel Eating Jon’s place In the old days, people just quietly raised pigs and got on with it. The interesting stuff – feuding, bootlegging, playing the banjo, whittling a possum figurine from basswood, beating-up their cousin. Today, people can’t just raise pigs quietly. It’s all this, “Look

Children Felled by a Peanut

Walk through old cemeteries, like this one above in the kinlands of Squirrel-Eating Jon. See whole families that died of cholera or a flu of some kind. Imagine the mothers lying under those headstones who would have loved for plumbing and vaccines and antibiotics. Be happy for these things too, and keep in mind on

Deer Season 2022 in Summary

Above we see one of the bucks he was hoping to best this season. Elk season opened a week before the season for whitetailed deer. Squirrel-Eating Jon (SEJ) hunted parcels of private land close to home for these big, tough deer, the New World counterpart of the Red Stag back in his ancestral lands. He

Deer Season 2022 Opens

Deer season 2022 is entering its fourth day this morning. Squirrel-Eating Jon – the man whom eating nothing but squirrels matured to a full-mediocrity – has been out every day. Conditions for hunting deer were superb the first two days, snowing, blowing, the thermometer dropping. He stuck closer to home cos the roads were treacherous

Does This Fence Make My Grizzly Bear Look Fat?

Doing the usual rounds post early-season snow, Squirrel Eating Jon noted the local grizzlies being quite particular about where they crossed the barbed-wire fences that truss our rural world up like a holiday roast. This fella approached the usual fence-crossing point, stopped and had a look, then turned off and followed south to a place

A Nice Pre-season Trophy

With elk season just a week away and whitetail season following a week after that and black bear season already well underway, Squirrel-Eating Jon has been roving the high west like a Plotthound on the trail of a catamount. Hunting, scouting, expectorating the remnants of the covid plague he had picked-up on a rare trip

How the Wolverine Got Those Feet

Above: “Wolverine Number Two” captured by a remote camera at a cache site, with his travel-cover in the background. This is one of the study wolverines Squirrel-Eating Jon tracked over numerous consecutive winter seasons, identifying him by throat and chest markings as unique to each wolverine as a fingerprint. Jon pioneered the use of remote

Carry Enough Gun – Refining a .375 Holland & Holland Chambered Rifle

Above – a selection of fine vintage Rigby magazine rifles. This one will appeal to fans of fine arms who like to be prepared. The boyscout in you. As well perhaps to handipeople who like to fashion things with fine wood. Experts will tell you that if you spend time skulking about in grizzly country

Close Shave with a Twister

This past July 7 sometime not long after midday, Squirrel-Eating Jon went upstairs for nap, belly full of a nice dinner of squirrels. He had only just laid down on the ancient lumpy mattress when there came the rumble of thunder. That’s odd, he thought, he had not noticed clouds. The day nonetheless – the

Education of a Snake Hunter – Chapter Four

Memory conspires against nature.  The forgetting can begin in the instant that a change takes place…             –  J.B. MacKinnon It was now the 1980’s.  Educators were giving us a more sober, and more realistic message.  Towards the end of high school we were told we would be the first generation that, on average, would