The darkness drops again;
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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…
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