The deer herd is not fully recovered on our public lands.

That was the most ever, a record number.

The back of the trailer was engulfed in smoke.

I believe the one-buck limit did [affect ] the buck harvest in our area, which is what it was designed to do.

Antler quality was certainly up this year. I've seen the evidence at two or three wildlife check stations that I'm real familiar with. One of them that used to check one or two exceptional bucks each year had three or four this year, and I'm talking about bucks scoring in the 150-point class.

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.