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I really enjoyed that Todd, thank you for sharing! If you ever publish your works in a physical form, I'd love to buy a copy! (Send me the bill.)

I know from firsthand experience that smoked beaver hams are delicious, and depending on the time of year you can harvest some great fat from the tail. Don't pass up the chance to try out the mountain man's favorite dinner if you do end up shooting a few!

Bob, they are coffin blinds that are made by a guy in Salt Lake City, he makes a small batch of them every year and occasionally they will be available commercially. They are made from a plastic that's similar to plastic kayaks and canoes, are about 7' long and weigh around 25 pounds empty...

You're welcome anytime you want to make the drive Tod! Are you there full time yet?

Thanks everyone! It truly is a special place, and the fact that it isn't always there makes it even more so.

Yesterday afternoon a good friend and I went and hunted one of my favorite spots, which I call the Flats. It's a huge former river delta that, depending on the snowpack from the winter before, can be either a dry playa or thousands of acres of flooded marsh and grassland. When the water...

That series is incredible! The slow-motion one about shot string is so eye-opening, it really drives home that a pattern shot on paper is a 2-D image of a 3-D shot cloud. After hunting yesterday, I'm sticking with the full choke, for some reason I just seem to shoot better and hit better with...

Thanks again for all the suggestions guys... for what it's worth I listened to a podcast a while back with the guy who founded Boss, and according to him the copper plating is specifically to address the problems that earlier bismuth loads had with fragmenting. I've only recovered a few pellets...

Lots of good advice here.... Dave-I agree that the #1 factor in how well you'll shoot a particular gun depends on how it fits you and how comfortable you are with it. I've shot the same Remington 870 for 20 years now and it feels like a part of me, I'd take that old workhorse over just about...

After many years of hunting with steel and running pretty much everything through a factory Modified choke, this year I chose to switch thing up a bit. I bought a case of Boss copper plated bismuth in a 2 3/4" #3/5 duplex load, and I've been really happy overall with the results but since it...

I have a Backwater 35hp longtail on my larger boat, it uses a Briggs Vanguard 35 which is exactly the same motor used in lawn tractors and commercial mowers. The bigger surface drives are probably using modded exhausts which make them quite a bit louder than a stock motor (I know that Mud Buddy...

A mud motor ban would render about 90% of our wetlands here inaccessible to motorized boats, so I wouldn't support that! Most of our state WMAs have non-motorized only zones, which I think is a good compromise. Mud motors aren't really super noisy in my opinion, they are basically lawn mower...

That should be a fun one! My family is originally from Eastern NC, my dad's side from the Outer Banks and Beaufort and my mom's side is from New Bern, I spent a lot of time out there as a kid, I miss it! I actually was born in and grew up in western NC (Cullowhee, if anybody knows where that...

One more landscape shot, from earlier this year

PS Tod-they do have about 150 nonresident tags available every year, better start applying now! I've got the decoys ready for when you do draw one!

Thanks everyone! It was a fun adventure for sure. I have eaten grilled swan breast before, it was really similar to goose but a bit milder, I'm looking forward to the roast! The backdrops here never get old, here is another of my favorite photos from a few years ago-

[font "Arial"]I was able to make good on a rare opportunity earlier this week, here in Utah we have permits for Tundra swans available in a limited draw and this year I finally drew one. We get quite a migration through here, and after a quick rattle can conversion of some old super magnum...

I've done a written harvest log 2 of the last 3 years, I didn't get asked this year. I would be curious to see how that data is actually used!

Hey Brad, most of them are harvested these days at Public Shooting Grounds, BRBR, or on the Willard Spur with a few taken at FB. The water levels are low but a lot of the lake is still currently accessible from traditional spots. They only opened Public up 2-3 seasons ago and the scuttlebutt...

From what I've seen duck numbers in northern Utah seem to be pretty average. We had some huge flocks of migrating mallards through last week, it's been colder than usual and we're looking at January ice and bird numbers in late November. I have seen some canada geese dead in groups, strongly...