Category:Hunting

Kickass and Pheasant Hunting

Posted on October 18, 2026Updated on October 18, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: Photo by Doncoombez on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes his and the keeper’s retirement from hunting as the past weekend marked the opening of the Wisconsin pheasant hunting season, an activity as propped up as a shotgun wedding. The hunt involves a chicken-sized exotic bird with spectacular colorful plumage, raised by the state by …
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Kickass and the Snowy Owl

Posted on January 28, 2026Updated on January 28, 2026by Bill StokesCategories:Animal Rights, Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Memories, Wisconsin

Attribution: Petr Kratochvil, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assures the keeper that it is never too late to try to clean up the record so long as the final tally has not been inked in. So, here are the basic facts on a matter that has been haunting the …
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Kickass and Dead Deer Icy Memory

Posted on November 30, 2025Updated on November 30, 2025by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Hunting, Kickass

Attribution: Fabrice Florin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper with a very old memory—70 years or so, of a day matching this one—last day of the deer season and people headed for home from traditional family hunting grounds. The station wagon full of five kids, an …
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Kickass and Deer Stand Thoughts

Posted on November 22, 2025Updated on November 22, 2025by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: Photo by Uta Scholl on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper and Phyllis, a most unusual circumstance across Wisconsin this morning: thousands of people—mostly men, sit in remote wooded locations alone with their thoughts while holding a gun capable of killing a large animal at great distances. If this morning’s …
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Kickass and Day Before Hunt

Posted on November 21, 2025Updated on November 21, 2025by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: Marc St. Gil, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that in the keeper’s long life of excesses, nothing looms any more excessive than his involvement with Wisconsin’s traditional nine-day deer hunt which this year begins tomorrow morning at ——-a.m. As a complete record would show—and the keeper …
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Kickass and Leghold Traps

Posted on November 15, 2025Updated on November 15, 2025by Bill StokesCategories:Animal Rights, Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: Accipiter (R. Altenkamp, Berlin), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, gives the podium to the keeper this morning to confess yet once again his unconscionable use of leghold traps during his predator youth of catch, kill, consume or market all lesser creatures. It is painful for him to …
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Kickass Retires as Hunter

Posted on November 3, 2025Updated on November 3, 2025by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Social Commentary, Wisconsin

Attribution: Henry Farny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper submitting his formal resignation as a natural predator, which means, of course, that he is no longer a member of the hunting crowd that now swarms over the land like an alien invasion force. Being a hunter …
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Kickass and Bear Hound Letter

Posted on July 30, 2025Updated on July 30, 2025by Bill StokesCategories:Animal Rights, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: California Department of Fish and Wildlife from Sacramento, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis offer the following sample letter for sending to legislators from those who are upset at learning that Wisconsin is the ONLY state allowing the outrageous “sport” …
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Kickass Talks to Deer Hunters

Posted on November 23, 2024Updated on November 23, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: English: NPS, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s message to Wisconsin deer hunters at 6:45 am on this opening morning of Nov. 23, 2024: “Deer hunters: “Good morning to one and all out there in the blaze orange brigade. It looks to be an overcast …
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Kickass Gets Ready for the Hunt

Posted on November 22, 2024Updated on November 22, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s dilemma in waking up with the strong sensation that he must spend the day preparing for something, but it was not clear just what that was. Finally, it dawned on him that this was …
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Kickass and Hooked-up Dogs

Posted on October 21, 2024Updated on October 21, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Hunting, Kickass

Attribution: Hhoefling, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is on another recycled, long-ago grouse hunt with the keeper, this one up in the northwest where the keeper and the other hunters, all carrying shotguns, stood in the farmyard with their new farmer friend who planned to join the hunt. The …
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Kickass and Grouse Hunting

Posted on October 18, 2024Updated on October 18, 2024by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Hunting, Kickass, Memories

Attribution: Henry Thomas Alken , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper using this bright Oct. 18, 2024, to jerk his memory machinery back 50 years or so to the days when he and John Lawton wallowed in the glory years of ruffed grouse populations across the state. …
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