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by Nick Simonson With paper top hats donned and party blowers buzzing at this point in the season, it's easy to encapsulate life into a year, or as the nine rolls over to a zero this New Year's Eve, an entire decade. It's easy to shrug off this compartmentalization process until a person stops and looks back at those individual stand-out moments that made each stretch of time in those bigger blocks so memorable. The same is true for the outdoors. Big fish, first birds, a large set of antlers o...
The rooster rose from the drain’s snow-filled cattails near my feet and curled out in front of me, banking against the northwest gusts that spurred the addition of new layers which my scattergun snagged on as I attempted to raise it to my shoulder. The slick thumb pad of my second pair of gloves slid across the safety and up the stock as I struggled to get the shotgun in place between my chest and shoulder. I pushed again on the safety and it coldly clanked into the firing position as I found a...
Introducing Dakota Edge Outdoors You asked, and we listened! In a recent survey, readers indicated that they would like to see more Outdoors content in our newspaper. Introducing Nick Simonson of Dakota Edge Outdoors. Simonson is an avid multi-species angler, hunter and outdoors journalist who has been writing about his experiences and developments in the outdoors for over 19 years. A native of Valley City, N.D., after a decade in Minnesota, he now resides in Bismarck with his wife Angie and son...