ROCK 'n ROLL
December 31, 2016
-Jordan Seitz-

Drawing the late season cow tag near my home isn’t as easy as it used to be. However, this year I was one of the lucky ones.

I waited until Christmas break so my father-in-law Dirk could join me, and so I’d have the time to mess with it. For goodness sake, at the onset of break I still had to process the frozen quarters from my bull that were packed in the freezer!

Days passed as I waited for timing and weather to line up. New Year’s Eve wa...

TRACKING A JACKALOPE
January 2017
-Jordan Seitz-

Dirk and I have a standing tradition to bowhunt jackrabbit, cottontails, and jackalope when he visits at Christmas.

Last year we’d successfully removed several rabbits from the local population, but their antlered cousins eluded us. Later in the winter, I’d seen a jackalope running with a herd of deer nearby, so I knew there was a possibility we’d finally get our chance at one.

Usually I carry a recurve for rabbits, but this time I was a...

Pop Goes the Weasel
January 19, 2017
-Jordan Seitz-

 

Then it clicked…why wait for the fall? Furs were prime, I had a little time, why not start trapping now?

It didn’t take long for me to order a pair of #3 Bridger coilsprings for varmints, and clean up some old rat traps I had laying around. I read articles on the internet, and thumbed countless times through my old National Trapper...