The latest issue of our beloved TBM is here — I have mine in print, but for everyone it’s also online through this site. I normally expect the “fall hunting issue” to be the biggest and best, as it should be as that is OUR Time. But this winter issue challenges that norm. My usual way of reading magazines (and frankly as the years go by, I truly read fewer and fewer magazines, and TBM is the Only hunting ‘rag’ I subscribe to) is to graze through the whole thing, looking at the photos and if they grab me, reading the captions. So far as reading articles, at this first glance I merely turn down page corners for those I think worth reading at first glance. Well, this issue has a LOT of articles flagged for reading. And when is riper for reading than when the weather sucks and they ain’t no big game seasons open? Being a bigmouth I’ll probly have more to say about individual articles … once I read them. For now I am merely very grateful for the glorious blessing of TBM. ‘flier