Author: aencoker

  • Home Butchering Ain’t for Sissies. . .

    It’s been awhile but I promised to talk about our hog butchering, home edition.  It wasn’t pretty.  We brought my first kill home, along with her piglet, and as I was inside searching the phone book for a meat processor with late hours, hubby was outside in our carport with mama pig across his open…

  • Gettin’ Mama Hog and Her Baby Outta the Dark Dark Woods

    Well, I promised to tell the story of how Jimmy and I got my first kill, a wild female sow, and one of her babies, out of the woods that February day back in 2010.  We were so pumped!  He didn’t even realize that I had seen a pig until he saw me raise my…

  • Hunting with Hubby

    There is nothing so good for bonding as husband and wife than going with your husband on a hunting expedition.  Getting up at 4:30 to make it to the deer blind and stand at least two hours before daylight somehow brings man and wife together in a way that sleeping until 10:00 a.m. on a weekend…

  • How I Got Started

    Way back when I was in college (circa 1978), I met a guy who loved to hunt and took me with him to hunt on his family’s land.  I would go with him early in the morning and sit in trees and on the ground holding a rifle I had no idea how to shoot. …

  • Hello, Lady Hunters!

    It’s never too late to learn to hunt, girls.  I tagged along with a boyfriend hunter in college and sat out in the cold woods with a rifle I had no idea how to shoot, just because I wanted to be with him.  It has taken me over 30 years to realize that I can…