Hunting – The Salted Fly

January 27, 2024

Hydrodynamics, Mobile Ballistics, and String Theory

(A world class education from the stern of a canoe)

I wasn’t great at high school physics. I was an excellent calculus student, but I couldn’t apply the math well in physics with all the vectors and trajectories. Nonetheless, I feel like I have a PhD in applied hydrodynamics and mobile ballistics, and nowhere does that become more apparent than when your buddy hands you a canoe paddle and says let’s go jump shoot some ducks.

February 16, 2020June 17, 2020

Duck hunting from a kayak

Duck season has come and gone. It was mostly a forgettable one. The early cold weather in November and the relatively mild December and January meant that Virginia did not hold many birds this year. The following is one highlight of an otherwise down year.