Author Archives: Jerry Johnson

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About Jerry Johnson

Retired journalist and college public relations director. Former teacher, coach, mentor. Novelist and short story writer.

Schooling Butch

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

…I do not recommend Jim Pavlec’s method of behavior modification for an aggressive dog. But I do admit that in this particular case it was effective. Schooling Butch Lester Haugland, a dairyman whose farm was eight or nine miles east … Continue reading →

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The vagaries of scent

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

Any information presented here about the phenomenon of scent and the ability of whitetail deer to detect and respond to it is strictly anecdotal, a compilation of my observations and conjecture, not the result of a disciplined scientific study. The … Continue reading →

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Jacob and Esau

Posted on April 8, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

We live in Jacob’s village, but we yearn to wander with Esau’s tribe. And so we hunt. Jacob and Esau The parable of twin brothers Jacob and Esau, found in the Book of Genesis, is a hunter’s story. Each fall … Continue reading →

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Three Guns

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

You are granted a year’s leave of absence from work and family responsibilities, handed an itinerary of a few dozen hunts across the North American continent, provided with all the necessary equipment, and are sent forth on this dream of … Continue reading →

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Better is more

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

The greatest adventure in creating a bird gun that is uniquely mine was the decision to have the receiver engraved with scroll and images of game birds.  Better is more The seed of understanding true value was planted some 50 … Continue reading →

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Playgrounds

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

“Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living — the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living — is play.” … Continue reading →

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Starting over

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

A random thought clicked in my head: maybe the stock bolts are loose. They were. Protocol says to check this before you even start the scope mounting procedure, but unaccountably I didn’t. So I tightened all three stock bolts to … Continue reading →

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April’s wild card

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

…it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.             – William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet             and hymn composer April’s wild card April is winter’s … Continue reading →

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Schrödinger’s damned cat

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

Quantum mechanics changed the world… by extinguishing the dream of perfect determinism and mathematical predictability that structured the Newtonian universe.      – Amir Alexander, science and mathematics historian at UCLA and author of the book Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical … Continue reading →

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A walk in the winter woods

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Jerry Johnson

My beautiful blond wife is more lithe and flexible than I on snowshoes. She falls less frequently, too, but I contend that is because the dogs step on my snowshoes more often than hers, a trick that always sends me … Continue reading →

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