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May 18, 2022
A Breath of Air: A More Accurate Carbon Dioxide Emissions Pie Chart
Humans expel more pounds of Co2 emissions annually than rail, commercial aircraft, ships, heavy and light duty trucks, buses, passenger cars, and motorcycles combined!
May 11, 2022
The Effects of Stress on Venison Quality Prior to and During Harvest: What is ‘Ultimate pH’ (pHu) and Myoglobin in Meat Anyway
By now a couple things should be pretty clear: 1.) The pressures of hunting can cause both acute and chronic stress in animals and will depend on the context of both the animal and the season/particular hunt that results in the harvest; 2.) The influence of long-term environmental stress on deer during the hunting season and the influence of short-term stress caused by the actual harvesting of the animal, those forces work in opposite directions. Seasonal, long-term chronic stress lowers ultimate pH of the meat while the act of harvesting the animal - the short-term acute stress of being culled - increases its ultimate pH...
May 4, 2022
Custom RIFT Hydrofoil Fishing Lures: The Invention and Patent of Fishing Made Easier
This is accomplished by having a design with the center of lift aft of the center of gravity...Design, proportionality, mass, materials, all became critical components central to the hydrofoil design.
Apr 26, 2022
Bottoms Up: The Proper Way to Hang, Skin, and Quarter a Deer
Yes, the old time black and white photos predominantly show deer strung across buck poles, noses to the sky. What was also true back in those days was everyone wore matching red flannel wool to deer camp and walked uphill in the snow both to and from school.
Luckily for us those days are long gone. We get to wear badass camo. We get to use state of the art bows and rifles. And yes, we get to use fancy new Deer skinning hangers that double as extra large cutting boards to skin and quarter, then process the wild game
Apr 20, 2022
What gets you out of bed in the morning: Motivation on the other side of where the Red Fern Grows
What Get's you out of bed in the morning? It's a simple question really. I'll give you my answer.
My first thought is...
Apr 13, 2022
Be Someone Else's Hero
Psychology tells us that we’re all ‘heroes’ of our own stories, but what does it take to be the hero of someone else’...
Apr 7, 2022
Debunking Five (5) Venison Myths
Ground venison is a dense, rich, and creamy delight. Properly prepared, venison is a lean, high protein meat. Many wrongly argue that it’s so lean you need to add fat to it. Ground Venison, in any form, is filling, not fatty...
Mar 30, 2022
Father’s Day Tradition: Unique Father's Day Gifts
Shortly after moving to the Metro Detroit area I was introduced to a completely different kind of fishing; trolling with planer boards. The combination of the multi-line spread and success it more than often yields, left me fish smitten.
Mar 23, 2022
The Ideal Fishing Program: Cogs of the Finely Tuned
The most ubiquitous lure. What is it? I'm willing to wager, even if you haven't done the research, and even if you are new to the sport, you know what it is. It’s the Spoon. Simple and elegant, it comes in all shapes and sizes; in casting, jigging, in trolling, and in flutter; in every color and pattern you've ever seen or can imagine.
Mar 15, 2022
The Art and Science of Trolling: Flashers and Flutter Spoons
What flasher analysis tells us about fishing lures generally, and in particular, about the prowess of the trolling spoon is this. Trolling spoons, like flashers, are designed to attract fish. Trolling spoons, like flashers, are available in an assortment of color combinations and patterns. Trolling spoons, like flashers, come in various lengths, widths, cupping and contours that produce predictable, yet distinguishable movement from other trolling spoon designs. It makes perfect sense then, that a particular physical design, and therefore specific pattern of movement, for a particular trolling spoon would also result in different outcomes. Just as flashers do.
Mar 10, 2022
Allegory of a First Trout
My Grandmother Jane owned a farm where a small crick split the property and flowed out to Bear Creek. By eight (8) years old I already had my own vocation, cleaning barn stalls and bailing hay. It was during one of these summer weeks spent at the farm that my love and admiration for Trout fishing began.
Mar 2, 2022
The Ideals, Not the Man, nor the Boulevard: “...Rugged Free Market [Rust Belt] Capitalism…” - MLK Jr
By the fall of 2021 our sales throughout the US and Canada had started to pick up to the point where revenue that wasn't being pumped back into purchasing raw materials and the like, could be used to buy a gently used trade show booth to be retro-fitted with our brand’s logo and colors. So that’s what we did. We scraped up enough money to put together a very clean looking expo presentation and pay the exhibitor fees and hotel room costs, and got to work.