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Abundance – Duck Hunting the Grasslands

By Hank Shaw on January 2, 2009 | 16 Responses

I am not accustomed to an overabundance of wild ducks. Holly and I hunt public land, which, for the most part, means we scratch out a duck or two apiece on any given day. This suits us just fine. But we went down to the Salinas Gun Club on New Year’s Eve for what we [...]

Posted in Hunting & Fishing Stories, Wild Game | Tagged duck hunting, ducks, Hunting and Fishing Stories, offal, Wild Game | 16 Responses

Duck, Duck Goose Ready for Preorder!

By Hank Shaw on March 6, 2013

W00t! Here it is: My duck cookbook is available for pre-order on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble! Just a few short months and I’ll be on the road to a place near your, copies in hand…

Category: Book News, Featured

Coming this Fall: ‘Duck, Duck Goose’ Book Tour

By Hank Shaw on February 28, 2013

Plans for my 2013-2014 book tour for “Duck, Duck, Goose” — yep, we have an official title now — are already afoot! It’s looking like the tour will be about 50 cities in 38 states in four months. Hope my little truck (and I) can take it!

Category: Book News, Featured, Out & About

Seedlings

By Hank Shaw on April 1, 2013

One look at a garden will tell you something about the mind of the gardener. A well-tended garden is a symbol of stability, and of peace. A weedy one betrays neglect or indifference. Now, after a long time fallow, my garden is full of seedlings.

Category: Featured, The Garden

Into the Squirrel Woods

By Hank Shaw on November 3, 2012

Something about squirrel hunting touches me deeply. Moreso than anything else, hunting squirrels in the Eastern forests takes me back to childhood, to the woods that were my home when as a boy. I miss those days of exploration, but they all came flooding back recently in one epic day in Ohio.

Category: Featured, Hunting & Fishing Stories, Wild Game

An Awful Mercy

By Hank Shaw on October 25, 2012

Sometimes a hunt is more than a hunt. Sometimes it is a window into the dark reaches of this world, and the next. I came away from my Wyoming antelope hunt with a vision of courage — not by me or by any of my companions, but of the animals we pursued.

Category: Featured, Hunting & Fishing Stories

Heeding the Siren’s Song of Salmon

By Hank Shaw on August 2, 2012

If you live long enough, you start to see glimpses of paths untaken, lives you could have lived but for chance or snap decision. Last week I got a long look at what I could have done had I become a commercial fisherman years ago. Did I make the right choice to stay on land?

Category: Featured, Fish, Hunting & Fishing Stories, Salmon and Trout

Photo by Brian Gratwicke, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Reflections on Catfish

By Hank Shaw on July 8, 2012

Catfish swim through a murky stream of race, class and regional rivalry. No other fish in North America defines where you stand in this world quite so much as the catfish. Eating one can border on being a political act.

Category: Featured, Fish, Hunting & Fishing Stories

The Lines We Draw

By Hank Shaw on March 4, 2012

A lot of people think I will eat anything. A lot of people are wrong. A recent news story here in California brought this into focus.

Category: Wild Game

On Killing

By Hank Shaw on December 7, 2011

Hunting season brings with it a flood of emotions. Elation when you succeed, frustration when you do not, and always a deep contemplation about what it means to kill for food.

Category: Hunting & Fishing Stories, Wild Game

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