Trad Life – The Beginning…

Like many others in the last few years I was drawn to the trad life by following along with Aron Snyder and The Push along with others. So, I decided to put down the compound bow and pick up the strugglestick, this is where any similarities in my trad journey stop with Aron’s.  To start I am…

2016 Elk Hunt – The First Taste

It all started in late 2010, my good friend, and fellow Lost Flatlander, started talking about his elk hunting adventures that he went on yearly with his dad.  I have always loved the mountains and adding that with a relatively new hunting passion of mine it sounded like the best of both worlds! So, we started planning…

Introducing hunting, one drop at a time.

I’ve been trying to introduce hunting to my 6 year old gradually over the last couple of years. He doesn’t yet show the same desire to be outside all of the time that I did at his age. So, we make days at the farm a big deal. We get up early, put on camo, stop for donuts, and…

A new season a new challenge

I was late into Texas Whitetail archery season before I made my first trip to the family farm. A two week business trip to Singapore put a real kink in the opening couple of weeks for me. As the weekend of October 19th approached, I found my wife was very supportive of my spending a…