by Tom Huggler June 01, 2017 If you’ve ever combed a tick from your hunting dog’s coat, you know about the involuntary shiver that creeps up your back. There are worse feelings, like flicking away a tick crawling over your own skin or trying to extract a...
by Tom Huggler November 01, 2016 One day this fall I’ll go back to Ma Deeter’s, the only tavern in Luzerne Michigan, that small, four-corners settlement on M-72 between Grayling and Mio. Ma Deeter’s first opened in 1921. A year ago today (October 2,...
If you don’t have shooting,you don’t have hunting… If you don’t have hunting,you don’t have conservation… If you don’t have conservation,you don’t have wildlife… by Tom Huggler March 01, 2016 Rob Keck,...
Time to Gather and Go by Tom Huggler August 01, 2015 Escape is why I look forward to crossing the Mackinac Bridge, as I have done every October for more than four decades… As I write this over the July 4th holiday weekend, more than ever I await bird-hunting...
by Tom Huggler June 01, 2015 Every hunter who has ever picked burdock from his bird dog’s coat knows one day it will end. But planning for the inevitable is no easier than predicting the day you will put the gun in the cabinet for the last time. The knees could...
