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Gilliland, Steve
Steve Gilliland
Twas the Night Before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even our mouse.
Seems COVID has spooked even the house-mouse...
Deer Blind Observations 2020
The two mature does and three fawns I’ve seen often, were back again this morning. Our blind overlooks a grassy waterway with a CRP...
Trapping the Wild West
The directions to a desolate farmstead northwest of Syracuse KS led me through mile-after-mile of huge open crop fields and immense rocky pastures where...
Dear Poacher:
As all the various hunting seasons unfold here in Kansas, so do incidents involving illegal hunters, AKA poachers. As I worked on this week’s...
McPherson State Fishing Lake Worthy of a Trip
The year was 1957; the date was somewhere between March 1 and May 1 depending on whose account you read. As quoted in the...
Upland Game Bird Season appears as a Bright Spot for Kansas Hunters
Ok, now that we’ve all grown accustom to bad news in this glorious year 2020, the upland game bird hunting forecast for Kansas appears...
November 13; Circle the Date
November 13; Circle the Date
By Steve Gilliland
Let’s start with a pop quiz; do you know the significance of the date November 13? Is it;
A...
If All Else Fails, Lower Your Expectations???
The title of a recent Hutchinson News column by Amanda Miller left me scratching my head; until I read it through and realized how...
You too can Become a Road-Kill Griller
Considering the financial struggles of many right now, and the political agendas of some, I’ve planned in my mind what I’ll do if the...
Can Dry Times Ever be Advantageous to Outdoorsmen?
Exploring Kansas Outdoors
Can Dry Times Ever be Advantageous to Outdoorsmen?
By Steve Gilliland
I’ve noticed that here in Kansas, we get into lengthy rain cycles that...