The Catchatarian™ Cookbook & Lifestyle

It’s springtime in the Rockies, and that means the days are getting warmer and the grass by the side of the road is getting green. A sad result of this spring awakening is that deer frequently graze by the side of the road, and as a result there are many deer that get hit by [...]

I am actually just going to link to a good description from the Kansas Department of Wildlife site, but I did clean a pheasant for the first time last week, by myself, with no idea what I was doing. A friend showed up unexpectedly at my door with two pheasant that he had gutted but [...]

Annie’s first deer hunt, October 2007

Let me start by saying I have been traipsing around the woods of Colorado, Elk hunting for 6 years now. I DO NOT have one in the bag. I have smelled, spooked, tracked and pushed them, but have not killed an Elk – YET! But I did [...]

Sept. 1, 2009, Grouse hunting, Lenado.

Barney and I went hunting in Lenado. (Few things for the audience – I am a much newer person to the ol’ hunting game than my husband. When I started I told his friends to treat me as though I was their 13 year old younger sister, [...]

I know, there’s a reason they call it hunting and fishing, as opposed to killing and catching. And I certainly wouldn’t expect to come home with my limit every day. But sometimes I feel like Forrest Gump before the hurricane hit when he said, “Shrimping is TOUGH.” Well, grouse hunting is tough too.

Colorado is so [...]

A lot of people take their animals down to a local meat processor, if not for the whole animal, at least for grinding the scraps and less tender pieces of meat, and for making sausage and jerky and such. If you are a catchatarian, you might not want to do that because most meat processing [...]

I’m a 40-something woman and I grew up in the South and yet somehow until last week I had never fired a gun before. I strangely had several friends who also expressed interest in taking the Colorado Hunter Safety class, but somehow no one actually ended up taking it with me. So last Monday night, [...]

Sometimes they get away.

It is definitely easier to be a catchatarian in Colorado than it would be in, say, New York City or San Francisco. But as the days start getting shorter, and the birds start going higher, and you have a full-time job, sometimes you have to try to grab a bird here or [...]