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Gilliland, Steve
Steve Gilliland
Spring Turkey Hunting Sickness
I used to get really excited about this time each year at the thought of spring turkey season; not so much anymore. I still...
Survival of the Fastest
One October a few years ago, I watched a large number of hawks following combines through a soybean field, snatching up rodents kicked out...
You Never Know what You Might be Missing
I saw an old friend in town the other day and he asked how I had done trapping last year. I told him I...
Pepe Le Pew, we Smell You!
A term often used around Christmas and Thanksgiving is “Seasonal Smells,” meaning scents like pumpkin pie, roasting turkey and the scent of pine; pleasant...
Ye Haw, PETA Rides Again
One of several problems in our society today, is the intolerance of differing opinions; by many, anyone with a different opinion is seen as...
Squirrels; Love em’ or Hate em’
As a youth, the after-deer-season joke between me and my buddies was the question “Well, are you eatin’ venison or bologna?” A few years...
Soup, Stew or Creation?
A couple years ago after catching my last bobcat of the trapping season, I laid it on the pickup tailgate and marveled at the...
Snow; Love it or hate it
Show me a Midwesterner who doesn’t have some sort of love-hate relationship with snow, and I’ll show you the rock they have lived under....
The Legend of Sink Hole Sam
A couple important occurrences helped shape the history of Inman, Kansas, one an historical fact and the other a legend. The fact is that...
Twas the Night before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring EXCEPT that darn mouse.
It chewed and it rustled so to...
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