Nebraska Pheasants The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary Mark and Earl set out to check species number 22, the Pheasant, off their upland slam list. Pheasant is the number one hunted upland [...]

Kansas Bobwhite Quail The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary Mark and Earl travel down to the great state of Kansas in hops to knock another quail species off their list, the North [...]

Upland Hunting Hawaii’s Big Island The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary Hawaii a group of islands in the pacific coast is a paradise not only for travelers wanting sandy beaches but for [...]

Upland Hunting Hawaii’s Moloka’I Island The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary This journey takes Mark and Earl to the smaller Hawaiian island of Moloka'i. Moloka'i is an island that is 260 square [...]

Dove Hunting Sonora Mexico The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary This journey takes Mark and Earl to Sonora Mexico in the hopes of harvesting 3 dove species; the Eurasian Collared Dove, The [...]

COMPLETED! Elegant Quail Sonora The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary 26 different Upland birds across 10 states and 3 countries have all come down to this; the Elegant Quail. The final upland [...]

Arizona Quail Slam in a Day The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary Mark and Earl travel down to southern Arizona to hunt a number of quail species. Yesterday Mark and Earl helped [...]

Oregon Mountain Chukar Hunting The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary Mark and Earl set out to check species number 21, the chukar, off their upland slam list. Typically chukars live at higher [...]

Drug Smugglers & Mearns Quail The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary Mark and Earl travel down to southern Arizona to hunt a number of quail species. The first day they focus on [...]

Canada Ruff, Spruce Grouse and Snipe The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary Mark and Earl travel to Safari River Outfitter in Saskatchewan, Canada to chase a couple different Upland species. First up [...]

Michigan Woodcock The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary Mark and Earl stay in their home state of Michigan to try and hit it just right for the Woodcock Flight. The Woodcock, also [...]

World Turkey Slam: Gould’s Turkey Sonora Mexico The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In this episode, Mark heads to the Sierra Madre mountain range to punch the tag of the last turkey [...]

Kentucky Eastern Turkey Hunt The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary This week on the Journey Within - A Bird Hunters Diary, Mark Peterson heads down to Kentucky to hunt with good friend [...]

Oscellated Turkey: Balam Outfitters – Yucatan Mexico The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary On this episode of The Journey Within Mark V Peterson heads to the jungle of Mexico with Balam Outfitters. [...]

Rio Grande Turkey - Texas The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary On this episode of The Journey Within, Mark travels to the Lone Star State of Texas to chase the Rio Grande [...]

Merriam Turkey - Nebraska The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary This week on The Journey Within -A Bird Hunters Diary Mark takes another step closer to complete his World Turkey Slam. Up [...]

Osceola Turkey - Florida The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary On this episode of The Journey Within Mark V Peterson embarks on his first hunt to complete the World Turkey Slam. In [...]

Part 6: Valley Quail | Southern Oregon The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In Part 6, Mark and his Father Earl are in Southern Oregon hunting Valley Quail, a unique species found [...]

Part 5: Mountain Quail | Northern California The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In Part 5, Mark and his Father Earl are in Northern California hunting mountain quail, a unique species found [...]

Part 4: Prairie Chickens and Sharp-tailed Grouse | South Dakota The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In Part 4, Mark Peterson ventures to South Dakota for prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse. South [...]

Partridge & Chukar – Wyoming Day 3 The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In Part 3, Day 3, Mark Peterson wraps up his time in Wyoming upland hunting with an epic partridge [...]

Sage Grouse – Wyoming Day 2 The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In Part 3, Day 2, Mark Peterson is still in Wyoming and will be hunting opening day of Sage Grouse [...]

Blue Grouse – Wyoming Day 1 The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In Part 3, Day 1, Mark Peterson is headed to Wyoming in search of Blue Grouse. Once again, faced with [...]

Alaska Ptarmigan Day 2 The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In Part 2, Day 2, Mark Peterson is still in Alaska hunting the three species of ptarmigan; willow ptarmigan, white-tailed ptarmigan and [...]

Alaska Ptarmigan Day 1 The Journey Within - A Bird Hunter’s Diary In Part 2, Mark Peterson continues his quest to complete the Upland Slam of 27 bird species. Mark is in Alaska hunting [...]