Well, as I sit here in my home office outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, I look out the window and it’s crazy-windy, snowing and freezing cold! Yes, we’re in the dead of winter and I just happen to live in Canada! Good thing for my ultra rugged woodstove… It’s days like this that make me think back to warmer days of this past summer. And, what a summer it was!

I often hear from non-hunters, or from people in general, that ducks and geese are very fat and basically, greasy as hell. Well, they’re half right… most domestic or farm-raised birds are. Not only are they fat, but compared to wild birds, they’re huge! A wild mallard duck for example, is about the size of a very small cantaloupe while one from the market can be four or five pounds! And, a wild Canada goose is often smaller than a farm-raised mallard!

Sitting fifteen feet above the frozen ground with a good stiff breeze smacking you in the face in the middle of November sure can make a guy appreciate things like hot coffee, long underwear and woodstoves. It can also make a guy appreciate whitetail deer hunting in Northwestern Ontario, especially when hunting with a bow.