Rugged Stories

Adventures of "The Rugged Dude!" A man who has been known to leap tall buildings in a single bound, while wearing his full-camo

Super Hero cape, old dirty jeans, rubber boots and suspenders!

Pretty Good But Not Totally Trained

I suppose it was my own damn fault! I mean did I expect to happen if I was to go duck hunting with a guy who doesn’t really hunt very much. After all, he did tell me straight up that he normally only hunts ducks one or two days each season. Warning flag…

Eighteen Feet

Eighteen feet is around the average height of one of my treestands. It’s likely the typical height that most treestand hunters hang their stands at too, especially, the whitetail deer guys. I’ve been hunting out of trees for about twenty years now and ...

The Great Debate

Sitting about 17 feet up in a tree sure gives me, the hunter, a great view. It also makes it a little less likely for the deer to notice me, smell me or hear me. And, when they’re coming in to the apples and corn I put there for them, they are distracted. This gives me a better chance to slowly reach for my bow or rifle and...

Lucky?

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. As I very slowly moved my head from side to side I noticed...