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

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

Death of a Horse

In late February or early March of this year (who can be sure what month it is?) we lost one of our home-bred registered Clydesdale horses. The death of a horse is always an event when it happens, but not a particularly rare one. Horses need no real excuse to drop dead, they are infamously

Hunting the Dakota Whitetail – 2021 Season

Like many deer hunters who wish to be successful at their game, Squirrel-Eating Jon likes to do scouting pre and during season. And afterwards as well, to see who made it through. Locally, this entails repurposing a couple of the cameras he had in use keeping tabs on the neighborhood grizzly bears for use at

Local Grizzly DNA Results In

Last fall Squirrel-Eating Jon collected 24 hair samples of grizzly bear from the area immediately adjacent the farm. These were sent to a lab for DNA analysis. The first results of the analysis are in. Eating reckoned from the evidence he gleaned tracking the bears as well as trail camera shots garnered by himself and

Invasive Species on the Farm

European starling, summer plumage. Squirrel-Eating Jon is 825 times the size of this bird. It’s the third of March and we’ve just seen the first spring bird. This whilst looking out the morning window sipping coffee, grounds in the bottom of the cup, water poured-over. The guardian dogs have been located on the computer via