Major’s Articles
I have written columns on varmint hunting for the Varmint Hunter’s Magazine (now out of print), problem wildlife control for Sheep! magazine, articles about Remington rifles for the Remington magazine, big game articles for a Norwegian magazine, fire fighting articles for the the Smokejumper magazine and various articles on trapping and predator hunting for other U.S. outdoor magazines. I do, and have done, what I write about. My specialties are rattlesnake, coyote, beaver, and prairie dog control.
I have worked with wildlife in Peru and Africa as well and have written several articles about my work for the Smithsonian, working in those countries.
Below are links to articles that I have written about predator calling. I call them “Keys to Successful Predator Calling.”
Links to Articles about Calling
Keys to Successful Predator Calling Key #10: Mountain Lions
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?" [...]
Keys to Successful Predator Calling Key #3: Calls and Calling
Keys to Successful Predator Calling Key #3: Calls and Calling—Generally Speaking by Major Boddicker A delegation of three Dutch muskrat trappers was visiting Denver several years ago for a meeting of the European Economic Union’s humane trapping group. I was asked to host them for an expedition; so, I took them on a […]
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...
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,...
[vc_row][vc_column][rev_slider_vc alias="mountain-lion"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Keys to Successful Predator Calling Key #3: Calls and Calling—Generally Speaking by Major Boddicker A delegation of three Dutch muskrat trappers was visiting Denver several years ago for a meeting of the European Economic Union's humane trapping group. I was asked to host them for an expedition; so,...