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In late February of 2018, Dr. Michael Noonan, a professor at Cassius University in Maine, brought a class of students to Colorado to research and film the issue of reintroducing gray wolves to Colorado. Major agreed to an interview with the group to offer them a perspective on the repercussions of the reintroduction. Several of […]

By Major L. Boddicker The motel maid, a pretty, very short, and full-bosomed young lady, knocked on the door of room 107. “Good morning, is anyone in there?” she asked. There was no reply, so she slipped the master key in the lock and opened the door. The Hayden, Colorado, motel, fairly new and well […]

Keys to Successful Predator Calling   Key #10: Mountain Lions—Key Strategies And More Tall-Tales about the Mysterious Mountain Lion by Major Boddicker   Several years ago, I was hunting arrowheads about 100 miles east of Denver, out on the Colorado plains, in wheat country. On Colorado’s vast plains there are tiny islands of rough rocky [...]

Keys to Successful Predator Calling   Key #9: Mountain Lions – Calling’s Top Trophy Curiosity Kills the Big Cat by Major Boddicker   One early summer morning in 1979, the phone rang. “Major, could you come over and look at a dead deer at our place? It’s laying about 20 feet from our bedroom window, [...]

Keys to Successful Predator Calling   Key #8 – Calling Bears, Hazardous Duty by Major Boddicker   The Alaskan stream behind me was about 20 feet wide and 6 inches deep. It gurgled quietly by. I sat with my back against a huge 60-foot tall spruce tree, which towered over the stream bank. A large […]

Keys to Successful Predator Calling Key #7 – The Senses, Generally Speaking by Major Boddicker   Sensory systems (smell, taste, touch, hearing and seeing) work like an old John Deere slip-clutch tractor: as the clutch lever is first pushed, no movement happens; then it engages, but slowly; responses and sensing accelerates; then it is fully […]

Keys to Successful Predator Calling   Key #6—Tactics of Predator Calling by Major Boddicker   February 21, 2001, 20° F, wind out of the northwest at 5 mph, with a storm two days out. Two friends and I went calling in the mixed sandhills and crops of eastern Colorado. A 130-acre irrigated cornfield sat on […]

Keys to Successful Predator Calling   Key #5: Managing People, Vehicles, and Things by Major Boddicker   Sam was a nice guy, from another state. He was excited and gung-ho. But as he climbed a fence, I stared down the hole in his gun barrel again, after I had requested that he be careful about […]

Keys to Successful Predator Calling   Key #4: Weather and Country—Coping With the Elements by Major Boddicker   Beep, beep, beep, beep—that obnoxious alarm rang at 4 a.m. I looked out the bedroom window and was greeted by a nasty blizzard. "Good morning, Bill. It is nasty out here. What is it like in Denver?" [...]