Tom Bahti: Memories of hunting with a Moses stick

When you hunted Coues deer in southern Arizona with my late cousin, Kurt Bahti, you were gifted and used a “Moses stick.” Kurt fashioned them from the stem of a large cactus, and they were pieces of outdoor art.
Five to six feet in length, he would smooth out the gnarly surface of the cactus stalk, attach a rubber chair leg stop to the ground end, and then cover the upper third with tanned deer leather, which he carefully glued and stapled to the pole.