Get Out and Go Hunting

28/04/2023

A mighty fine morning on the peninsula.

08/02/2023

The colours.
The finest hairs down the snood and around the earholes.
The ivory smooth beak.
The wrinkles, nooks, and crannies.

26/01/2023

The pointy bits.

15/01/2023

Just 100 short days until we hope to put our hands on an Ontario longbeard. But who’s counting?

01/11/2022

Fun mixed bag 3 man… A handful of Redheads and Bluebills with a Black, Ringneck, Spoonie and Greenhead.

10/10/2022

Even when we are chasing grouse and squirrels, wild turkeys aren’t too far from our mind.

Happy Thanksgiving 🇨🇦🦃

02/10/2022

First Wood Duck of the year for the boys…

20/09/2022

Can. Not. Wait.

02/09/2022

Early goose season coming in hot!

30/06/2022

A friendly reminder that today is the last day to apply for antlerless tags in Ontario.

Reminder: the Ontario antlerless deer draw deadline is June 30, 2022.

Hunters may apply to big game draws online, over the phone, or in person. Find out more information at https://www.ontario.ca/page/apply-hunt-antlerless-deer

13/06/2022

Get those hunter reports submitted everyone.

Did you turkey hunt this spring? Regardless whether you were successful or not, you must complete your hunter report. Tomorrow is the deadline.

Sign into your Outdoors Card account online to complete your report at www.ontario.ca/page/hunter-reporting or call 1-800-288-1155.

31/05/2022

Another successful spring turkey season wraps up today. As always we hunted hard, laughed too much, overindulged with our friends and family, and made a pile of memories chasing these amazing game birds.

Best of luck to those still grinding it out to the last minute today!

16/05/2022

Ugly Birds.

I’ve heard them called that frequently, and I don’t understand it to this day. Explosions of colour, flamboyantly strutting and shaking, and a call to make you smile uncontrollably, while causing your heart to patter and your hands to shake.

What was ugly was that I didn’t put a good shot on this one after he did it just right. It happens, but I feel sick for the disrespect that did him. He didn’t deserve for it to end that way.

The shooting was the ugly part. But this heavy, sharp-spurred, hard-gobbling Ontario tom? Ugly?

Hardly.

04/05/2022

After a single shot stung the dawn, I carried this gobbler back to my sitting tree, laid him down on the leaves, smoothed his feathers, pondered his life, and notched my tag while peace took over the woods again. I thanked him for what he’d taught me that morning, the memories he’d given me, and for the food he’d become for my friends and family.

And if it had instead ended with him trotting away into the oaks and maples and me ruing a missed opportunity, I’d still be thankful for the chance to chase him. Every minute spent in the presence of these birds is a gift, every opportunity to hunt them is a privilege, and every chance to lay hands on one is a form of communion.

I consider myself fortunate to have spent his last morning with him.

29/04/2022

Action packed morning!!

11/04/2022

As we rocket towards another Ontario spring turkey opener, we’d like to take the time to remind you that reaping a gobbler is unnecessary and essentially cheating. Our thoughts can be found at the link in our bio.

20/02/2022

Always happy to support this initiative. Looks like a cold, but great, day in the field.

12/02/2022

People say diver ducks don’t eat well. We can assure you, at least in the case of some prime redheads we killed on Lake Erie, that those rumours are not true.

I was fortunate enough to cross a “bucket-list” hunt off my list this past November when I went on a layout boat duck hunt near Long Point on Lake Erie. Big water diving ducks were birds that I had not had a chance to hunt in the thirty years that I’d been waterfowling, and I snapped at the ch...