September is finally here and the world (in my mind) is as it should be, once again. From this point until the middle of February it is full time bird hunting. Paolo has been out the last two days on a dove shoot and got a jump start on me for this year’s bird season. I am taking off Saturday morning though for three days of Blue Grouse hunting in central Nevada. (Tasty)
As I look forward at the calendar there is nothing but hunting for months to come. The hunting itself is always fun, but it is everything that goes along with it that makes the experience whole. From the relationship with my hunting dogs, to the time spent with friends, to physically walking around in some of the most beautiful places in the world, to knowing that you ethically and humanely took an animal that you will truly appreciate eating, it is all part of the experience for me.
When I am out hunting I can’t help but think that this is how it should be done. I was raised from a little kid in a family that was surrounded by hunting and most of the meat that we ate growing up was from animals that we hunted. To this day I honestly always have a moment of awkwardness when buying meat at a grocery store. The irony is that there are people who are anti hunting that don’t think twice about buying a slab of beef at the store that came from an animal that someone else killed for them.

Jay