Hunting

  • “Be Bear Aware” – Pamphlet offered by National Bowhunter Education Foundation

    January 2, 2025
    Dave Barus
    “Be Bear Aware” - Pamphlet offered by National Bowhunter Education Foundation
    There is increased bear activity in many areas across the USA. Learn how to “Be aware.” Negative outcomes can result when a bear is caught off guard. Be safe, learn how to make your presence known when hiking or hunting in bear country.  By Kim Emery At the 2025 Archery Trade Association (ATA) ...
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  • Whisper of the Wilds…and Dad

    November 26, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Whisper of the Wilds…and Dad
    Opening Day, couldn’t sleep, not going hunting, then my phone rang. Four days earlier, Bonnie posted, “It’s with a heavy heart that my father, Robert Jensen, has passed on peacefully in comfort. After watching grouse, a buck fawn rubbing her ladder, the silence of the woods grew sudden. Through her tears, she ...
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  • Easy-To-Handle Narrow Crossbows NOT allowed in New York State. Why?

    October 22, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Easy-To-Handle Narrow Crossbows NOT allowed in New York State. Why?
    Crossbows are easy-to-use deadly hunting tools. Narrow crossbows are easier to handle and safer to use when going vertical or when sitting in a ground blind.  One disadvantage of standard crossbows is that they can be difficut to cock, requiring strength from the hunter – NOW an easy-to-use internal crank-style cocking ...
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  • Summer Wild Boar Hunting in the Alabama Black Belt – FUN!

    June 4, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Summer Wild Boar Hunting in the Alabama Black Belt - FUN!
    Overpopulation of wild feral hogs in many southern states NEED hunter help. Choose hunting lodges carefully. Many provide full-service facilities, including meals, guides, and butcher services, at reasonable costs. Thermal night vision rifle scopes are allowed for night hog hunting in Alabama – and they work. By Forrest Fisher This summer, I enjoyed the ...
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  • Grand-Slam Turkey Hunting Secrets – a quick chat with Wild Turkey Grand-Slam Record Holder Jeff Budz

    May 1, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Grand-Slam Turkey Hunting Secrets - a quick chat with Wild Turkey Grand-Slam Record Holder Jeff Budz
    Budz has shot more than 500 wild turkeys and completed more than 120 grand slams of all four subspecies (Eastern, Merriam’s, Rio Grande, and Osceola). Budz travels light because he covers a lot of ground. He always has two mouth calls in his mouth, When Budz needs to reach out a long ...
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  • What can Georgia Turkey Hunters expect in spring 2024?

    March 28, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Looking back, Georgia’s statewide turkey reproduction averaged 1.5 poults per hen. Poults/hen was on par with the average over the past 10 years but lower than the 10-year record high. Get your license at GoOutdoorsGeorgia.com,  at a retail license vendor or by phone at 1-800-366-2661. By Georgia DNR The statewide Georgia turkey hunting season ...
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  • Key Facts About Hunter and Shooter CONTRIBUTIONS to American Society

    February 1, 2024
    Dave Barus
    DID YOU KNOW?  Sportsmen contribute nearly $9.4 million every day, adding more than $3.4 billion every year for conservation.  Hunters and target shooters have paid $11 billion in excise taxes since the inception of the Pittman-Robertson Act in 1937.  Hunting in America is big business, generating 680,000 jobs in the United States.  For more than 80 years, sportsmen have paid more than $20 billion for ...
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  • Jake’s Lost Life: Gun Safety is #1 – for ALL Hunters, for ALL Ages

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Monteleone
    Jake’s Lost Life: Gun Safety is #1 - for ALL Hunters, for ALL Ages
    With a profound passion, Jake loved to hunt for deer, turkey, waterfowl. Does a deep passion for hunting and familiarity with firearms contribute to a lack of discipline for firearm safety? Keep safety rules in mind….always. Shooting a firearm MUST INCLUDE THE COURAGE  TO CORRECT A FRIEND for any lack of gun ...
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  • New York Canada Goose Seasons OPEN September 1st in many areas of State

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    New York Canada Goose Seasons OPEN September 1st in many areas of State
    One of the first seasons to open every year is the September “resident” Canada goose season. Although they may look the same, “resident” Canada geese are those that breed in the United States and southern Canada, unlike “Atlantic Population” (or “AP”) Canada geese, their relatives that breed in northern Canada and migrate ...
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  • Overpopulation of Deer?

    January 23, 2024
    Bob Holzhei
    Overpopulation of Deer?
    Warm winters, High summer nutrition, Fewer hunters = TOO MANY DEER Do we need DNR to consider additional expanded seasons? Farmers need help, Home Owners have property damage and deer disease concerns (Lyme, CWD, etc.) By Bob Holzhei Within a one-mile radius of our farm in Clinton County, MI, I counted over 40 deer. ...
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  • National Deer Association (NDA) has Solid Plan to Empower Deer Hunters

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    National Deer Association (NDA) has Solid Plan to Empower Deer Hunters
    Education, Biology, Legislation, Recruitment included in the new plan. Karlin Dawson named as Deer Outreach Specialist to Work with Missouri Conservation (MDC) Special focus on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and Field-to-Fork Programs During July 2020, the National Deer Alliance and the Quality Deer Management Association joined forces to merge their two groups, combine ...
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  • Turkey Hunting: Making the Box Call Sing

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Turkey Hunting: Making the Box Call Sing
    My favorite Turkey Call is the Box Call, it can make turkey music. The type of wood can make a huge difference, reasons why some turkey hunters carry more than one box call The 4-Play call is single box call that can make more notes, at more different pitches, than any ...
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  • Winchester SX4 Hybrid Hunter Woodland Shotgun

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Winchester SX4 Hybrid Hunter Woodland Shotgun
    Gotta love the new durable camo coverage and protected metal-part finish on the new Winchester firearms in this modern world. The Winchester® Super X4 Hybrid Hunter Woodland features a classic Woodland camouflage paired with a Cerakote Flat Dark Earth finish on the receiver and barrel. The is combination is an functional eye-catching ...
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  • Florida Youth Hunting – First Deer for Kingston, 11-years old

    January 23, 2024
    Jeff Liebler
    Florida Youth Hunting - First Deer for Kingston, 11-years old
    Learning to shoot well, whisper in the stand, control our scent and be there at the right lucky time…made it all happen. Face camo adds to the youth hunting fun, making that first shot good sure makes it unforgettable. The crossbow allows a friendly introduction into accurate shooting potential at the very ...
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  • New York Online Hunter Education Course…24,000 NEW HUNTERS!

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    New York Online Hunter Education Course...24,000 NEW HUNTERS!
    DEC Announces Extension of Online Hunter Education Course Through August Offerings Now Include Online Bowhunter Course 24,000 Hunters Have Completed Online Course since April; New York State Sporting License Sales Up Nearly 10 Percent New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today announced that DEC’s online hunter education course ...
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  • Firearm Industry in support of HISTORIC Senate Passage of Great American Outdoors Act

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Firearm Industry in support of HISTORIC Senate Passage of Great American Outdoors Act
    NSSF®, the firearm industry trade association, praised the U.S. Senate’s passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, (H.R. 1957). This historic legislation, which received overwhelming bipartisan support, is among the most meaningful legislative measures for sportsmen conservationists ever. The Senate’s approval is a major step forward toward delivering on the ...
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  • Bowhunting for a Turkey? Know the best Shot Placement Options BEFORE heading to the Woods

    January 23, 2024
    Jason Houser
    Bowhunting for a Turkey? Know the best Shot Placement Options BEFORE heading to the Woods
    A strutting turkey is mostly air and feathers, read to know more about where to shoot. Nothing is more exciting than to shoot a spring tom with archery gear. Make a good shot and recovery is quick. If you make a poor shot, it could be a long day. By Jason Houser Wild ...
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  • Patience is Often Key to Early-Season Turkey-Hunting Success…What to do, When to call, What to use

    January 23, 2024
    Josh Lantz
    Avoid mistakes by watching, listening and adapting. Calls, gentle yelps, clucks, but don’t over-call if the birds are quiet. Read on to learn WHEN TO USE a decoy. The birds will always show you what they want. By Josh Lantz Most turkey hunters believe the opening days of the spring turkey-hunting season offer the ...
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  • TURKEY HUNTING SECRETS: “Develop Your Secret?” Part 1 of 3

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Monteleone
    Learn How to Develop Your Own Turkey Hunting Expertise Learn Where to Sit, What to Look For, How to Locate Turkey Learn about Calls to Use, Decoy Set-Up, Location By Jim Monteleone A friend of mine asked me a long time ago what my secret was to killing two turkeys in Virginia every year. ...
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  • Duck & Goose Callers head to Marsh Fest 2020 for Fun and Competition

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Duck & Goose Callers head to Marsh Fest 2020 for Fun and Competition
    Sure-Shot Game Calls, proud to be “Presenting Sponsor” for Marsh Fest 2020 Cash prizes with state and world fame qualifier recognition for winners Contest and family event details for Marsh Fest 2020, visit www.marshfest.com. By Forrest Fisher When wanna-be world-class duck and goose callers gather March 6-8 at Winnie-Stowell Community Park in Winnie, TX ...
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  • TURKEY HUNTING SECRETS: “Tag Them” – Part 3 of 3

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Monteleone
    Read the Bird, Listen to his Gobble Understanding Gobble Talk and RESPONDING, or NOT Over-Yelping, Biggest Secret to a Wise Old Bird By Jim Monteleone You can read a bird by listening to his gobble and I want to explain the different types of gobbles that you might hear. A “volunteer gobble” is one ...
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  • Alabama’s 1st Sandhill Crane Hunting Season Deemed a Success

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Alabama's 1st Sandhill Crane Hunting Season Deemed a Success
    This is the first of four experimental seasons under U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regulations In Alabama, 400 permits were issued with 3 bird tags/permit (1,200) Alabama permit numbers and management plans are expected to the same for 2021 By DAVID RAINER, Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Another warm winter left Alabama’s ...
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  • TURKEY HUNTING SECRETS: “Call Them” – Part 2 of 3

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Monteleone
    Learn the Language of Turkey Talk Clucking, Yelping, Cutting, Cackling and more Realism, Patience, Sounds and Tones By Jim Monteleone A lot of folks believe that the skill in calling turkeys is the most critical element of hunting.  Although it plays a significant part in filling a tag, I consider it about 33 percent ...
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  • Cleaning your Rifle, it’s Essential…Why and How

    January 23, 2024
    Wade Robertson
    Cleaning your Rifle, it’s Essential...Why and How
    Preventive maintenance allows repeatability in performance How to remove copper bullet build-up from the rifled barrel How to maintain the bolt…it’s important! By Wade Robertson Well, another deer season has come and gone. You will in all likelihood be putting the rifle in the cabinet for another year where it will sit primarily forgotten. ...
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  • Does Your Venison Taste Awful? How NOT to Let It Happen Again

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Does Your Venison Taste Awful? How NOT to Let It Happen Again
    DO carry a small, sharp, pocketknife, DO NOT use a bone saw of any type DO make a good shot, DO field dress quickly, DO watch the temperature DO thaw frozen venison slowly for best taste By Jason Houser I hear people all the time say they do not like the taste of deer. ...
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  • Are you ready for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Safari?

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Are you ready for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Safari?
    The true safari experience requires experienced professional hunters and skilled camp/field staff Find hunting areas that provide a variety of game: Buffalo, Zebra, Wildebeest, Kudu, Antelope Safari hunts are life-altering experiences, they captivate all your senses. Special moments in life. By Forrest Fisher Whenever folks think about a safari, they have shared with me ...
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  • Linda Powell: Becoming a Hunter

    January 23, 2024
    Serena Juchnowski
    Linda Powell: Becoming a Hunter
    Linda Powell went to college hoping to study genetics and research After working in the medical field for 14 years, Powell realized in her mid-30s that she needed adventure She found it, then came the life-changing question: Do you want to try hunting? By Serena Juchnowski When you ask a child what he ...
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  • Sweat Equity: Fertilizer Foundation for GIANT DEER

    January 23, 2024
    Jason Houser
    Sweat Equity: Fertilizer Foundation for GIANT DEER
    By Jason Houser As much as we autumn-time deer hunters would like to throw some fertilizer under an oak tree and a few weeks later, have it rain to see results, acorns will cause many hunters to be disappointed. The first or even the second fall after you begin fertilizing will ...
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  • Wisconsin Bear Hunt – Worth the Wait

    January 23, 2024
    Jason Houser
    Wisconsin Bear Hunt – Worth the Wait
    Plan your Wisconsin hunt for a select zone- do the homework to identify the zone for success Be patient, collect priority points for several consecutive years to score on zone selection Research the guide, the gear, the location, and weather forecast…then count your blessings, control your aim By Jason Houser If you are looking ...
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  • Winter Chill is Here, but Fish are Too

    January 23, 2024
    Bill Hilts
    Winter Chill is Here, but Fish are Too
    Niagara Falls USA Fishing Report from Destination Niagara USA Big fish in Trib’s during December runoff periods Ice Boom going in on Lake Erie very soon Temperatures are in the single digits with the wind chill and there’s not much wind. Efforts are underway to install the ice boom at the head of the river ...
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  • Sika Deer among 29% Opening Day Harvest Increase in Maryland

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Sika Deer among 29% Opening Day Harvest Increase in Maryland
    Opening day hunters were hampered with wind and rain in Maryland, but the Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced that 8,061 deer harvests were reported on the opening day of the 2019 Maryland firearm season, Nov. 30. This represents a 29% increase over last year’s Saturday opener. The overall weekend ...
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  • Someone is Looking for a Little Tail, Lots of Them!

    January 23, 2024
    Jason Houser
    Someone is Looking for a Little Tail, Lots of Them!
    Wanted: Squirrel Tails By Jason Houser The Mepps brand of fishing lures is best known for natural hair-dressed spinners. Over the years, they have tried many types of hair, including synthetic and other natural materials, as well as the hair from Angus cowhides, bear, and fox, coyote, and badger fur. But they ...
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  • BOWHUNTERS: Dress for Success, Stay Warm, CONTROL your SMELL

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    BOWHUNTERS: Dress for Success, Stay Warm, CONTROL your SMELL
    The Parka and Bib are soft, quiet, flexible fleece shell fabric. The Parka has 10 pockets for storing gear and warming hands. By Forrest Fisher A month ago I met Nick Andrews from ScentLok at an outdoor meeting event and he explained the technology controlling human odor during the hunt. I’m from a ...
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  • ‘Tis the Season! It’s Time for NEW Outerware for the Deer Hunter

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    'Tis the Season! It's Time for NEW Outerware for the Deer Hunter
    New Midweight Whitetail System     Theissen V1 Whitetail Midweight System, perfect for all-season deer hunting  From cool autumn evenings to the season’s first frosty mornings, every deer hunter knows there’s a broad spectrum of weather conditions to conquer in order to find success. The Thiessens’ V1 Whitetail Midweight System is the perfect ...
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  • Georgia Hunters: Firearms Deer Hunting Season Opens Oct. 19

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Georgia Hunters: Firearms Deer Hunting Season Opens Oct. 19
    The season bag limit is 10 antlerless deer and two antlered deer If you are looking to stock up that freezer with one of the healthiest meats available—your time is here! The Georgia deer firearms season opens Sat., Oct. 19 and continues through Jan. 12, 2020 statewide. “We are shaping up for yet ...
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  • Florida Youth – October Hunt coming up…”Outta the Woods”

    January 23, 2024
    Tammy Sapp - Florida FWC
    Florida Youth - October Hunt coming up..."Outta the Woods"
    New Florida youth deer hunt weekend and muzzleloader season By Tony Young  The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission established a new youth deer hunting weekend, which occurs during the muzzleloading gun season in each of the four hunting zones. FWC staff initiated the proposal to promote youth hunting and stakeholders were ...
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  • Tree Stand Hunters, GRAB A LIFELINE to your Biggest Deer

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Tree Stand Hunters, GRAB A LIFELINE to your Biggest Deer
    Experts say the best deer hunting with a bow is from 15 to 30 feet up in a tree. Dangerous? Yes! Early to rise can mean “early to sleep” while in your tree stand. It’s common, it’s fun, it keeps you in the woods, but can be deadly if you are ...
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  • Viper Archery – Sidewinder Bow Sight Series

    January 23, 2024
    Karen Lutto
    Viper Archery - Sidewinder Bow Sight Series
    Simple, Accurate, Effective, Durable, Affordable Unique Precision Elevation System  Simplify 3D Archery, Simplify Competitive Shooting   Designed to bridge the gap between archery hunting and competition bow sights, the Viper Archery Products Sidewinder Series provides the fastest, easiest and most precise elevation adjustments of any single-pin sights on the market. The Sidewinder and ...
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  • New Study Reveals 6.35 Million Acres of Western State Lands Are Landlocked

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    New Study Reveals 6.35 Million Acres of Western State Lands Are Landlocked
    onX and TRCP release a groundbreaking analysis of state land access across 11 Western states By Randall Williams/TRCP Author This week, onX and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership revealed the stunning results of collaboration to quantify how many acres of state lands across the West are entirely landlocked by private land and, ...
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  • South Carolina passes new turkey regulations to bolster declining populations

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    South Carolina passes new turkey regulations to bolster declining populations
    The National Wild Turkey Federation applauds the South Carolina legislature for passing a bill addressing declining turkey populations. The bill will restructure season dates and limits for residents and nonresidents. The new structure creates two regional season periods: April 1 – May 10 for the upstate and March 22 – April ...
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  • Hunting Above Ground? How to Stay Safe…Treestand Safety Guidelines

    January 23, 2024
    Bob Holzhei
    Hunting Above Ground? How to Stay Safe...Treestand Safety Guidelines
    Get ready for hunting “Above Ground” during the Summer Months Get a full body harness, then learn how to use it Carry a cellphone or signaling device By Bob Holzhei Each year, thousands of hunters are injured in tree stand accidents. In fact, according to the Treestand Safety Awareness Foundation (TSSA), there are about ...
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  • The Ultimate Spring Hat-Trick Turkey Destination…Plan Now for Next Year: Hunting, Fishing, Eating!

    January 23, 2024
    Mike Joyner
    The Ultimate Spring Hat-Trick Turkey Destination...Plan Now for Next Year: Hunting, Fishing, Eating!
    Look for these Critical Elements to assure a great Turkey Hunt: Woods, Waters, Streams, and Forage Resources High-Harvest Average  Lots of Public Hunting Land – it spreads out the hunters Chautauqua County in New York meets the List! By Mike Joyner Ultimate destination – a bold claim for a resource-laden state such as New York. ...
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  • Eliminating Your Stink…for Serious Hunters

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Eliminating Your Stink...for Serious Hunters
    One of the biggest things we can control as deer hunters is our scent, but it’s not easy. We all perspire, we sweat when we walk out with our gear, climb a tree and set up. The gentle wind from whatever direction helps to disperse the “hunter alert” smell to ...
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  • Deer Management: New York shares a plan for Urban and Suburban Communities

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Deer Management: New York shares a plan for Urban and Suburban Communities
    Whitetail deer management in communities where people and vehicles are numerous can result in accidental collision and injury. Many states are trying to understand the best method to employ for better management. In New York, a written plan exists, perhaps a plan that other states might gain benefit from, as ...
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  • Are YOU the “Toughest Hunter in the Alps?” Steyr Challenge aims to Find Out

    January 23, 2024
    Karen Lutto
    Are YOU the “Toughest Hunter in the Alps?” Steyr Challenge aims to Find Out
    Steyr Arms will be hosting the 2nd Annual Steyr Challenge, Oct. 5 in Seetaler Alpe in Austria, with teams from across the globe competing for the  title of “Toughest Hunters in the Alps.”This competition is a combination of a more than seven kilometer mountain run with about 300 meters of ...
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  • Florida Alligator Hunting – How to Apply for Permits

    January 23, 2024
    Tony Young
    Florida Alligator Hunting - How to Apply for Permits
    By Tony Young Since 1988, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and its predecessor, the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, have offered hunters the opportunity to take part in their annual statewide recreational alligator harvest, which always runs Aug. 15 – Nov. 1. Alligators are a conservation success ...
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  • LAST DAY TO APPLY – 2019 Kentucky Elk Hunt Drawing

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    LAST DAY TO APPLY - 2019 Kentucky Elk Hunt Drawing
    APPLY NOW for the 2019 Kentucky Elk Hunt Drawing.  Today is your last chance! Take Your Pick — Apply for any or all available permit types Only $10 per application NEW – The Archery/Crossbow Permit is now either-sex (bull or cow!)  Ages 15 & younger may also apply for Youth Either-Sex Permits (25 now available) Random ...
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  • New York Youth Turkey Hunt set for April 20-21

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    New York Youth Turkey Hunt set for April 20-21
    NYS Annual Youth Turkey Hunting Weekend Set for April 20-21 Junior Hunters must be 12-15 yrs of age Junior Hunters must hold a hunting license and a turkey permit New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced today that spring turkey season opens May 1, in all of Upstate ...
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  • 5 Deer Annual Bag Limit for Florida…New Rules for 2019-2020

    January 23, 2024
    Tony Young
    5 Deer Annual Bag Limit for Florida...New Rules for 2019-2020
    New deer hunting rules for Florida 2019-20 season  By Tony Young At their February meeting, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Commissioners passed new deer hunting rules that take effect starting with the opening of archery and crossbow seasons in Zone A on Aug. 3, 2019. Annual statewide bag limit – five ...
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  • Turkey Hunting Lingo – Tom or Hen? Keep this handy pocket guide! FREE

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Turkey Hunting Lingo - Tom or Hen? Keep this handy pocket guide! FREE
    Did you know what they call a SNOOD of the turkey?  What are Turkey Caruncles? Tom or Hen? Easy way to tell is illustrated below By Forrest Fisher As hunters, we never stop learning.  Folks in different parts of the country call turkey by different local slang terms at times, not counting the different ...
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  • 2019 Statewide Turkey Hunting Season Opens March 23…in Georgia

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    2019 Statewide Turkey Hunting Season Opens March 23...in Georgia
      Georgia turkey hunters are ready for the season to open on Saturday, Mar. 23. The 2019 turkey hunting season should be a fair season, similar to 2018, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division. “Reproduction in 2017 was lower than the four-year average, so that could mean a ...
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  • Chestnut Tree Food Plot Philosophy – Bucks Fight For It

    January 23, 2024
    Morgan McCalla
    Chestnut Tree Food Plot Philosophy - Bucks Fight For It
    Hard Mast Crop Logic, Peter Fiduccia Explains in the Video Wildlife Nutrition Cost Effective, Easy to do Join host Peter Fiduccia and his special guest Bob Wallace from Chestnut Hill Outdoors as they share step-by-step details on planting chestnut trees. They are an ideal mast tree to supplement any wildlife food plot program. Carrying ...
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  • Let’s Talk Turkey: Pot and Box Calls

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Let's Talk Turkey: Pot and Box Calls
    Condition your Calls, Learn How Friction Calls: Pot Call, Box Call No matter where you live, turkey season is not far away. In Florida, the gobbler season is already open! In Georgia, it starts two weeks away. Other states too, not far away. Yelping, clucking, purring…pot calls, box calls, locator calls – it ...
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  • Master Coyote Hunting…the How-To, What-To and When-To

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Master Coyote Hunting...the How-To, What-To and When-To
    Locating and Luring Coyote to You Gaining Access to Productive Properties, How to Find These Properties Caliber, Ammo, Scopes, Lights, Calls…It’s All Here By Forrest Fisher Hunting veterans and novices alike will become better coyote hunters after reading this book written by award-winning author and expert coyote hunting guide, Michael Huff. This book provides ...
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  • Valentine’s Day – Perfect Time to Search for BIG BUCK Antler Sheds…on the Ground

    January 23, 2024
    NYS Dept. of Env. Conservation
    Valentine’s Day - Perfect Time to Search for BIG BUCK Antler Sheds...on the Ground
    Shed hunting in the Northeast can be fun and is a good way to scout new hunting zones for next fall  In late December and continuing through March, New York State whitetail bucks shed their antlers as testosterone levels drop in response to lengthening days. When the snow begins to melt ...
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  • Successful 2019 SHOT Show Featured Innovation and Growth

    January 23, 2024
    Bill Brassard
    Successful 2019 SHOT Show Featured Innovation and Growth
    SHOT Show marks 10th straight year at Sands Expo Center The 41st Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade ShowSM (SHOT Show®), owned and operated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), finished its four-day run in Las Vegas with many notable successes, including a new record for exhibitors in its Suppliers Showcase ...
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  • The Truth about Florida’s Deer Rut – Deer Hunting Continues in Florida Zones

    January 23, 2024
    Tony Young
    The Truth about Florida’s Deer Rut - Deer Hunting Continues in Florida Zones
    Moon Phase, Decreasing Daylight, Genetics, Evolution…the Hunter Debate and Science February 2019: “Outta’ the Woods” By Tony Young There are a lot of theories and differing opinions on what causes the white-tailed deer rut. Hours of daylight decreasing, geographic latitude, genetics, climate, evolution and moon phase are many factors that hunters and deer ...
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  • Big New York Bucks TAKEN OVER BAIT

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Big New York Bucks TAKEN OVER BAIT
    Hunting over Bait Piles is illegal in New York Shooting a firearm while Hunting within 500 feet of a house is illegal in New York Carrying the Tags of Another Person not signed over to you is illegal in New York There are quite a few rules to hunt inn New York State, ...
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  • Loaded Gun on ATV Leads to Illegal Deer Harvest in New York

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Loaded Gun on ATV Leads to Illegal Deer Harvest in New York
    On Nov. 17, Environmental Conservation Officer Shea Mathis spotted two hunters walking along the railroad tracks in the town of Wheatfield, Niagara County, NY. The two claimed they had a lousy morning hunting and had not taken any deer. ECO Mathis checked their licenses and found their deer tags attached. A third ...
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  • Hunting Works for America Expands Again, Thanks to NSSF

    January 23, 2024
    Bill Brassard
    Hunting Works for America Expands Again, Thanks to NSSF
    Stakeholders educate public and elected officials about importance of hunting Hunter taxes, fees, surcharges fund conservation efforts to benefit wildlife Hunting Works For America program represents more than 1,500 businesses, organizations and associations across 19 states By Bill Brassard NEWTOWN, Conn. — The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms ...
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  • November “Outta’ the Woods” – It’s a Special Time

    January 23, 2024
    Tony Young
    November “Outta’ the Woods” - It's a Special Time
    Outdoors and Hunting Families Provide a Powerful Sense of Community Hunt Deer and Hogs over a Bait Pile on Private Lands – it’s OK, but NOT OK on any Florida WMA’s Season Dates, General Regulations Explained Below By Tony Young With much of the Panhandle still coping with the devastation from Hurricane Michael – ...
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  • Celebrate “Deer Season” with Helpful Hunting Tactics from Mossy Oak

    January 23, 2024
    Jake Meyers
    Celebrate "Deer Season" with Helpful Hunting Tactics from Mossy Oak
    Check out 3 All-New, On-Demand Video’s from MossyOak.com It’s November 2018, time to welcome back deer season, the time of the year when the leaves are changing, the mornings are crisp and the whitetail woods are starting to come alive. Welcome to “Deer Season.” To celebrate the pursuit of America’s favorite game ...
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  • NY Hunters Voluntarily Choosing to Pass Up Young Bucks Pays Dividends

    January 23, 2024
    NYS Dept. of Env. Conservation
    NY Hunters Voluntarily Choosing to Pass Up Young Bucks Pays Dividends
    In the southeastern Hudson Valley (Wildlife Management Units 3F, 3G, 3N, and 4Z) of New York, the proportion of older bucks in the deer harvest has never been higher. In 2017, three out of every four antlered bucks were 2.5 years old or older, and this remarkable accomplishment happened with ...
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  • NY Big Game and Small Game Seasons are Underway

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    NY Big Game and Small Game Seasons are Underway
    Hunters and Trappers Favorite Time of Year…Open Season Hunting seasons for big game like whitetail deer and black bear are underway with the archery season. Likewise, many small game species, like ruffed grouse, pheasant, rabbit, squirrel, and wild turkey, are also open and in progress. Hunting and trapping seasons for bobcat, raccoon ...
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  • Outdoor Edge® kicks off FREE FIELD-TO-FREEZER Gear Giveaway

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Outdoor Edge® kicks off FREE FIELD-TO-FREEZER Gear Giveaway
    “Helping Hunters Enjoy the Hunt, Field to Table,” says David Bloch – Outdoor Edge founder  Outdoor Edge Razor Pro Knife Set & Game Pro Processor Kit, Koola Game Bags, Weston Meat Grinder, Hi Mountain Seasonings, Bradley Smoker DENVER (Oct. 25, 2018) — To celebrate the fall hunting season nationwide, Outdoor Edge has kicked ...
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  • A Safari for Hunters and Non-Hunters – a Great Gift, Somerby Safari Outfitters

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    A Safari for Hunters and Non-Hunters - a Great Gift, Somerby Safari Outfitters
    What sets one safari outfitter apart from the rest? Outfitters that cater not only to hunters, but to the whole family, non-hunters too. When non-hunters need not worry about being bored, hunters have a better time. Enter Somerby Safaris, they offer a wide array of unique, African experiences for non-hunters ...
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  • ELK in Pennsylvania, 420-inch Giant Bull, harvested by Raffle Winner

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    ELK in Pennsylvania, 420-inch Giant Bull, harvested by Raffle Winner
    Keystone Elk Country Alliance (KECA), a visionary conservation success story KECA mission: conserve, enhance Pennsylvania Elk Country for future generations Raffle proceeds generate funding for Elk Country visitor center, public educational classrooms, land protection A lucky hunter from Binghamton, New York, Matthew Martinichio, was selected from 9,945 tickets in the KECA Elk Tag ...
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  • TRULOCK TIP…GET A SHOTGUN THAT FITS!

    January 23, 2024
    Blake Tabb
    TRULOCK TIP…GET A SHOTGUN THAT FITS!
    Help Your Shotgun Shoot Where You Look, Get it Fitted. Tune Your Fitted Shotgun With the Right Choke Choke Tubes are a Shooters Best Friend…Learn More By Blake Tabb The excited chatter of big honkers descending on the blind echoes through your head like a reoccurring dream. The big birds cup their wings, drop ...
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  • Mossy Oak Adds Second “Bull Rush” to Free Digital Video Library

    January 23, 2024
    Kevin Howard
    Mossy Oak Adds Second "Bull Rush"  to Free Digital Video Library
    To celebrate the opening days of elk season, Mossy Oak recently launched an all-new digital series featured in its free, on-demand video library. Coming off of the intense action of the first episode of “Bull Rush,” the latest episode contains four of Mossy Oak’s most action-packed archery hunts. Episode 2 of ...
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  • .223 Remington: Too Light or Just Right for Whitetail Deer?

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    .223 Remington: Too Light or Just Right for Whitetail Deer?
    As the popularity of AR firearms increases, so does the interest in hunting whitetail deer with its traditional brew, the .223 Remington.  Deer hunting is normally the territory of the .30-30, .270 and the .30-06, with bullet weights nearly three times that of some .223 projectiles.  This is a statistic ...
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  • 3 Steps to Giant Bucks!

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    3 Steps to Giant Bucks!
    Cater to Nutrition Needs and Bump Antler Growth, Here’s How Few trophy bucks are harvested by accident and this time of year is the time to take specific steps to create your best deer season ever. You can still boost antler growth for this fall, as well as put the local ...
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  • (No) Duck, (No) Duck, Goose

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    (No) Duck, (No) Duck, Goose
    Abundant Honkers Offer Nice Compromise How to Find a Goose Pond   Tasting the Bounty, a Great Recipe By Jim Low I admire perseverance as much as the next guy, but at some point in a dismal duck season, a sensible person cuts his losses and finds something else to do.  If the alternative ...
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  • 6 Tips for Staying Warm

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    6 Tips for Staying Warm
    A group of women hunt in South Dakota in one of the state’s worst cold spells.  They used many of the above tips to help them enjoy the cold.  By Joe & Vel Byers Staying dry and dressing in layers are a one-two punch that will tap out the cold on ...
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  • A Girl’s First Deer

    January 23, 2024
    Hanna Lucey with Forrest Fisher
    Learning about Nature, Patience, Heritage and Traditions Hoping for Sweet Venison of my own Using my Savage Axis 6.5 Creedmoor Deer Rifle By Hanna Lucey w/Forrest Fisher (Hanna’s words are in italics) Hunting is about sharing the heritage of our forefathers and conservation, and understanding it, about leaving the protection of home and finding ...
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  • Aldo Leopold would say, “START GROUSING!”

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    The ruffed grouse has had a long run of bad luck in Missouri, but time is still turning. The father of modern wildlife management spent time here documenting the bird’s decline. By Jim Low In 1886, legendary trap shooter A.H. Bogardus reported shooting 50 ruffed grouse as a diversion, while spending most of ...
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  • Aging Turkeys, by the Numbers

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Older gobblers aren’t always bigger, but their spurs are. Keep an outdoor journal, like building a time machine. By Jim Low Math has never been my strong suit, but a recent trip down memory lane sent me reaching for pencil, paper and a calculator.  As I often do when a hunting season approaches, ...
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  • Apply for Florida Alligator & Fall Hunt Permits in May

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Phase 1 Drawing May 12 – 20, 2017 6,000 Permits Issued by Random Drawing By Tony Young May is here, and so is the start of the Phase I application period for applying for alligator and fall quota, special opportunity and national wildlife refuge hunt permits. Mark your calendar, set yourself an alarm, ...
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  • An Open Letter to the Anti-Hunter, Makes us ALL THINK

    January 23, 2024
    Eric Dinger
    Animal Lives Matter, All Animals Are We Divided? 13 Million Americans Hunt, What Are They Thinking?  If you don’t approve of hunting, for whatever reason, I want you to know I appreciate you taking a minute to read this letter. My intention is to offer a couple facts about hunting you may ...
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  • Big Buck Stories Start with the Moon

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Big Buck Stories Start with the Moon
    Ever since I was a little kid, watching the sky for the moon, the stars, and now satellites and the space station, has always been an exciting encounter. Getting older, when it seems I need fewer haircuts, has allowed me to connect that deer and the moon are synchronized through ...
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  • Bear Awareness Dawning in Missouri

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Bear Awareness Dawning in Missouri
    The Largest Wild Mammal in the “Show-Me State” Should Not Be a Source of Fear, but Deserves Respect Eugene Gerve was awakened by the furious barking of his dog one May night.  When he shined a spotlight into his yard in Webster County, Missouri, he was startled to find a 300-pound ...
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  • Bear Hunting BANNED in British Columbia

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE IN BC’S GRIZZLY BEAR DECISION 100 Outfitters Negatively Impacted One week ago, we learned from the Guide Outfitters of British Columbia (www.GoABC.org) that the provincial government announced the complete ban on grizzly bear hunting in British Columbia (BC). Two independent scientific reviews confirmed that grizzly bears are well managed in ...
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  • Triple Spur Turkey taken in New York Woods

    January 23, 2024
    NYS Dept. of Env. Conservation
    Triple Spur Turkey taken in New York Woods
    The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Hunting & Trapping Newsletter brings news of a veteran spring turkey hunter from New York that bagged a bird with rare triple spurs This spring, retired DEC biologist and avid turkey hunter Bill Hollister knew he had found something rare after he ...
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  • Hunting for Beginners – Getting Started

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Hunting for Beginners - Getting Started
    Hunting is Inexpensive Hunting is Ethical Hunting is Challenging and Builds Character Compiled by Dave Barus, this story is shared in detail through the courtesy of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources – Division of Wildlife. Harvest Your Own Natural Food Hunting is a source of natural, free-range, and inexpensive food. Not to mention the ...
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  • Trulock Dove Choke Tube TEST RESULTS With Federal High Bird Shotshells

    January 23, 2024
    George Trulock
    Trulock Dove Choke Tube TEST RESULTS With Federal High Bird Shotshells
    By George Trulock We recently tested two similar dove loads from Federal using our new Trulock Dove Choke in the Mid-Range choke constriction. The choke that we used for these specific tests was of the extended mobile style and had a .707 inch exit diameter. The shotgun used was a Benelli Super Nova with ...
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  • New York DEC Announces 2018-2019 Waterfowl Season Dates

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    New York DEC Announces 2018-2019 Waterfowl Season Dates
    A complete list of season dates and bag limits for each zone can be found on the DEC website. The waterfowl hunter task force rationale can be found at Duck Season Dates. Hunters interested in printing the pocket guide can find it at 2018-2019 Waterfowl Season Pocket Guide (PDF). Hard ...
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  • NSSF, Project ChildSafe Elevate Call for Responsible Gun Storage During National Safety Month

    January 23, 2024
    Bill Brassard
    NSSF, Project ChildSafe Elevate Call for Responsible Gun Storage During National Safety Month
    Project ChildSafe’s S.A.F.E. Summer campaign reminds firearms owners to securely store firearms when not in use. NEWTOWN, Conn. — Project ChildSafe®, the nationwide firearms safety education program of the National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), is urging all gun owners to make responsible firearms storage a priority — and providing the tools to ...
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  • New York Spring Turkey Season Opens May 1

    January 23, 2024
    NYS Dept. of Env. Conservation
    NYS Spring Turkey Season Opens May 1 at 30 minutes before Sunrise, thru Noon each day Spring Turkey Season Ends May 31, Bag Limit is 2 male birds/season Chautauqua County, NY had Highest Hunter Turkey Harvest in 2017 Spring turkey season opens May 1 in all of upstate New York, north of the ...
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  • How to Find Turkey Hunting Success on Public Land

    January 23, 2024
    Mike Joyner
    How to Find Turkey Hunting Success on Public Land
    Scouting, Listening, Tuning-In State Game Lands can offer Best Hunt Days! By Mike Joyner With a full day’s rest from an epic road trip to Ohio, mother’s day morning hunt proved to be much a surprise in so many ways. Having spotted turkeys in farm fields below public game lands in Truxton, New ...
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  • Hunter Safety System Introduces the Lady Hybrid Harness

    January 23, 2024
    Karen Lutto
    Lady Hunter’s Need to be Safe…and Looking Good! DANVILLE, Ala. (April 23, 2018) – In recent years, the number of women spending time in tree stands and putting fresh meat on the table has continued to rise. In order to keep these women hunters safe, comfortable and looking their best, HSS ...
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  • New York State DEC Announces 2017 Deer Harvest Results

    January 23, 2024
    NYS Dept. of Env. Conservation
    Hunters in New York Harvested More than 200,000 Deer during 2017-18 Hunting Seasons By NYSDEC Hunters in New York State enjoyed another successful year, harvesting an estimated 203,427 deer during the 2017-18 hunting seasons Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced today. “Deer hunting in New York is a cherished and ...
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  • Early Spring TURKEY SEASON – a Special Florida Resource

    January 23, 2024
    Tammy Sapp - Florida FWC
    Florida Turkey Season is OPEN Osceola Turkeys are Common in Florida Wild turkeys are a Conservation Success Story in Florida & Across North America By Tammy Sapp, Florida FWC Florida’s spring turkey season opened on Saturday, March 3, on private lands south of State Road 70, making it one of the first spring turkey ...
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  • In Florida? Go HOG WILD this spring and summer!

    January 23, 2024
    Tony Young
    Outta’ the Woods – Monday, April 02, 2018 Where to go hunt By Tony Young Did you know the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) offers late spring and summer hog hunts on several wildlife management areas across the state? And you don’t even need a hunting license to participate in these ...
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  • Chronic Wasting Disease is a Deer Family Disease – Hunters be Aware

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Provided by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a neurological disease in deer, elk, moose and other members of the deer family, known as “cervids.” The disease was first recognized in 1967 in captive mule deer in Colorado, and has since been documented in captive and free-ranging ...
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  • Kent Cartridge – Three New Loads for Dove Hunters

    January 23, 2024
    Kevin Howard
    Dove hunting is a long-standing hunting tradition, especially in the south. Kent® Cartridge has three new loads designed to specifically help dove hunters fill their limits this fall. Our Diamond Dove™ loads feature heavier payloads and higher velocities than standard dove loads, making them a great choice for fast, high flying ...
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  • Outwit the Wiley Spring Gobbler, Fit Right In with X JAGD’s Net Top Layer

    January 23, 2024
    Karen Lutto
    How to Morph Into the Woods…Dress Right Conceal Your Location by Choice BESSEMER, Ala. (March 1, 2018) — There are few things more agonizing than working a wild turkey almost into shooting distance, only to have him bust you because he didn’t like what he saw. X JAGD, the acclaimed Austrian-based clothing ...
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  • Gobble! Gobble! Gobble! It’s Nearly Opening Day in Florida

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    2018 Turkey Season is Just Ahead, BE PREPARED Follow Jim Monteleone in his 3-Part “Turkey Expertise Series” Learn “HOW-TO-HUNT TURKEY” – Series Starts February 15, 2018 By Forrest Fisher That’s right, it’s February, but each year in early March, just when many Major League Baseball teams are holding spring training out west and down ...
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  • Find Your Next BIRD HUNTING ADVENTURE at the 2018 SCI Hunters’ Convention

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    When people think of the SCI Hunters’ Convention, visions of big game hunts in Africa, Asia, South America and North America come to mind.  What may come as a surprise is that several outfitters displaying at the Convention offer outstanding game bird and waterfowl hunting opportunities all over the world. One ...
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  • Episode 4 of Mossy Oak’s Web Series “Family Tree” Shares the Story of Jeff and Bob Shelby as They Hunt Kansas Waterfowl

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    WEST POINT, MS – Mossy Oak Capture Digital Productions has released its fourth episode of  “Family Tree,” a web series that highlights the importance of spending time outdoors with family, teaching and guiding through hunting and conservation efforts, which serves to preserve the outdoors heritage. This episode of “Family Tree” ...
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  • The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Epitome of Remoteness

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    If you are opposed to drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, now is the time to speak up and let your senators and representatives know. Posted by Don Carpenter | December, 2017; w/Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA) As an avid elk hunter in Idaho and Wyoming, I often marvel at how elk ...
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  • Can-Am Defender XMR: CONQUER the MUD…and ANYTHING ELSE!

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    72hp Rotax V-twin HD10 engine 30-in ITP Cryptid mud tires 13.5-in ground clearance The aggressive Defender XMR-HD10 side-by-side vehicle is factory built to tackle the nastiest of mud, where traction and torque are in high demand. An authentic mud monster, the muscular Defender not only reinforces the Can-Am brand’s leadership in the mud-riding ...
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  • NY Deer Hunting Season is LONG, Cost is CHEAP – Still TOO MANY DEER

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Imagine 79 days of Legal Big Game Hunting Imagine 79 days of Hunting for $52 Cost Imagine 7 Deer Harvest Bag Limit All True, yet there are STILL TOO MANY DEER New York NEEDS MORE HUNTERS! By Forrest Fisher Remember those days in school when the teacher said, “Time up, pens down!” New York deer hunters ...
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  • Deer Hunter’s…5 BIGGEST MISTAKES, May Still be Time to Fix Your 2017 Hunt – Part 2 of 2

    January 23, 2024
    Glenn Helgeland
    Know the Deer You Hunt Scouting, Being Detected Gear & Gadgets, Over-Dependence Patterning our Hunting Pattern Where, When and How  By John Sloan Mistake #4: We get patterned doing the patterning. Can we pattern a mature buck? I don’t think so. If we could, the odds are that we’d get patterned long before we could pattern the ...
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  • TREASURE on the Beach! Metal Detecting is FUN

    January 23, 2024
    Rich Creason
    Too Windy to Fish? Fish another Way! On a Small Beach central Florida, a retirement community…4 gold rings, 1 silver ring, over 100 coins, toys, fishing lures, and some trash.  All in one day. How? “Cold wet hands loosen rings, as does hot, sweaty hands, then throw a ball or Frisbee, the ...
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  • Deer Hunter’s…5 BIGGEST MISTAKES, May Still be Time to Fix Your 2017 Hunt – Part 1 of 2

    January 23, 2024
    Glenn Helgeland
    Know the Deer You Hunt Scouting, Being Detected Gear & Gadgets, Over-Dependence Patterning our Hunting Pattern Where, When and How By John Sloan Each year deer hunters, all of us, make mistakes. Sometimes they are minor mistakes, sometimes major. Not always do even the major mistakes turn out badly in terms of killing a deer or ...
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  • Muzzy Expands Trocar Hybrid Broadhead Line with New 125-Grain HBX

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Crossbow Broadhead Blends Fixed and Mechanical Technology SUPERIOR, Wis. (Oct. 3, 2017) — Due to customer demand, the popular Trocar HBX hybrid crossbow broadhead that blends the most lethal and accurate fixed-blade broadhead with a pair of center-pivot blades that deploy on contact for massive cuts on large animals is now available ...
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  • Call that Deer to You, TIPS THAT WORK for Deer Calling Success

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    How to Be Ready See a Deer, What to Do Using the Right Call By Gary Sefton Be Ready “You’re not going to believe this,” the excited deer hunter said.  “I haven’t seen anything all morning, so I let my bow down and started to unfasten my safety belt.  I remembered my brand new, never ...
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  • New York State DEC Announces Nov. 18 Start of Regular Firearms Season for Deer and Bear Hunting in Southern Zone

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Hunters are Encouraged to Pass on Young Bucks With the start of New York’s most popular big game season slated for Saturday, Nov. 18, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos is encouraging hunters to be safe, enjoy the natural beauty of the environment, and consider passing ...
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  • Quantum Gravity Fright, RISING MOON Hunting Night

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Big Bucks, Acorns and Apples Dreaming about Scent Control Elevated Hunting Stands REQUIRE SAFETY AWARENESS Prusik, Gravity, Your Whitetail Deer Hunting Future By Forrest Fisher The phrase “Whitetails Unlimited” is catchy if you are a deer hunter, especially a whitetail deer hunter.  It’s also the name of an organization that has more than 100,000 ...
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  • It’s #DeerWeek for 7-nites on your TV, through Oct. 21…Outdoor Channel & Sportsman Channel

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Non-Stop Deer Action Starts at 7PM E.T. Each Nite Get Educated with hosts Michael Waddell and Tom McMillan Learn Hunting, Unique Recipes, Countless Tips The world’s largest content provider of outdoor lifestyle programming (Outdoor Sportsman Group – OSG) is providing 7 consecutive nights of deer hunts for outdoor enthusiasts with “deer-centric” television ...
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  • New Rear-Deploying, SlipCam, “Trypan” Broadhead from RAGE

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    2+ inch Cut, thickest blades ever Low flight drag, high accuracy Titanium blades, lightweight, tough, lethal By Forrest Fisher Last week, I had the pleasure to spend some time with a few outdoor friends that understand archery hunting, arrow flight, broadhead efficiency and the needs that many hunters have for when they hunt big ...
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  • CWD Testing More Important NOW Than Ever

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    MDC will conduct mandatory CWD sampling in 25 counties Nov. 11 and 12. Check the fall deer and turkey booklet to see if your county is included. Hunters can get deer tested for free throughout archery and firearms deer seasons. By Jim Low The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) needs help from hunters to ...
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  • Enjoy MISSOURI’S GREAT OUTDOORS this September

    January 23, 2024
    Larry Whiteley
    Hike and Explore the Deer Trails Hang Your Tree Stands Enjoy Watching the Bird Migrations Fall is On-The-Way By Larry Whitely August has been unusually mild and wonderfully cool and comfortable here in Missouri.  Some mornings call for a light jacket and pants instead of shorts and t-shirt.  It has felt more like late September ...
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  • Tru-Fire® Introduces the Bulldog Foldback Buckle Release

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    SUPERIOR, Wis.. (Aug. 15, 2017) — Tru-Fire, the leading brand for mechanical archery releases, has introduced the single-jaw Bulldog Foldback™ Buckle strap-style archery release.  Like all Tru-Fire releases, the new Bulldog is made in the USA, and it features several patented Tru-Fire innovations and a wide range of adjustments.  It ...
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  • The GREATEST Scent-Control Whitetail Apparel Ever Made

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Gain the ScentLok Advantage with Full Season Taktix™  Every Year We Learn from Successful Hunters: They admit, CONCEALING Human Odor is at Top of List We Found this Affordable, Comfortable, Concealable Muskegon, MI (August 14, 2017) – Fooling a deer’s eyes and ears can be relatively easy.  Stealth and woodsmanship play critical roles, ...
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  • Montana Elk Habitat Conserved, Opened to Public Access

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    MISSOULA, Mont. – Aug 22, 2017 —A key wildlife landscape previously threatened by subdivision in northwest Montana is now permanently protected and in the public’s hands thanks to a collaborative effort between the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a conservation-minded family and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). “This property lies within the ...
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  • Mepps Squirrel Tail Recycling Program

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Antigo, WI – Aug. 24, 2017 – Mepps® continues to ask hunters to save their squirrel tails. The tails are used for their hand-tied, dressed hooks of their world-famous, fish-catching lures. They’ve been recycling squirrel tails for over half-a-century. “Squirrels are good eating and we can reuse their tails for making ...
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  • New York Announces Comprehensive Plan to Minimize Risk of Chronic Wasting Disease to Wild Deer & Moose Herds

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Public Comments on the Draft Plan Accepted Through September 1 Goal: Protect Wild Whitetail Deer, Moose and Captive Elk and Other Species New York is Leading Way to Protect Wildlife and Hunter Resources New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos today announced the release of a draft New York ...
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  • Learn Elk Hunting: Archery Details, Step-by-Step

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    By Forrest Fisher The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) has gone beyond the norm to help people everywhere learn more about conservation and hunting, and why hunting is so important to conservation. Just having returned from a visit to Medora, North Dakota, and the National Park that Teddy Roosevelt created there, I ...
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  • Show Me the Grouse!

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Part 2 of 2 Missouri hasn’t given up on this native game bird. Grouse need old and young forest to thrive and that means cutting trees. By Jim Low Thrup! Thrup-thrup! Thrup-thrup, thrup-thrup-thrupthrupthrupthrupthrup!!! Goose bumps roughened my arms and a chill crept up my spine.  I continued to listen to what could have been someone ...
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  • New Speed-Load Browning Tactical Knife

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Handy hand-hold knife handle Four blade inserts Any common utility knife blade will fit  as a replacement blade! Priced under $40 A Speed Load Tactical model knife has been introduced by Browning for 2017.  The new knife features a folding liner lock blade with four replaceable 420J2 stainless steel razor blade inserts.  The ...
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  • Rocky Mountain Introduces New 5-Pin Sight

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Durable, hard-coat anodized finish  5-Pin Sight Markers, Adjustable 2nd & 3rd Axis Micro-Adjust Windage and Elevation is Lockable Rocky Mountain has expanded its archery sight line-up with the introduction of the new 5-Pin Sight that will feature a hardy, protective, hard-coat-anodized all-aluminum construction available in two mounting configurations: a Direct Mount and a ...
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  • Rapid-Adjustment Sight Leads the New Sight Lineup

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    From their home in Superior, Wi., Rocky Mountain brand has roared back to life with the introduction of innovative new broadheads as well as a new lineup of archery sights.  Leading the sight lineup is the new Rocky Mountain Driver sight that can be adjusted for elevation quickly, easily, and ...
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  • TOTAL INSECT PROTECTION for Hunters and Everyone Else

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Total Protection from Mosquitoes, Deer Ticks, Chiggers Total Protection from No-See-Ums, Black Flies, Sand Fleas, Ants, Gnats Prevent Zika, Malaria, West Nile, Dengue, Lyme disease, others Made in the USA By Forrest Fisher This article is not an ad, but I suppose it could be.  I just want all of my friends and neighbors of ...
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  • Browning’s New Cynergy CX Shotguns Are Designed For Multiple Shooting Disciplines

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Gun owners looking for an over and under shotgun they can use for everything from trap, skeet, sporting clays and upland bird and small game hunting will want to take a look at the new Cynergy CX shotgun from Browning. Two models of the Cynergy CX are available, the Cynergy CX ...
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  • SPOT & STALK TURKEY HUNTING

    January 23, 2024
    Tyler Mahoney
    Effective, but BE VERY CAREFUL Recommended ONLY ON PRIVATE, SECURED LAND Tactics & Techniques By Tyer Mahoney Heavy rain and wind can put the turkeys in a funk where they don’t gobble or respond to calls.  Severe rain can wash out nests, which means hens must breed again, thus prolonging the “henned up” effect ...
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  • Black Powder Bushytails

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Made to order method for early-season squirrel hunting. Muzzleloaders lend new excitement to the old game of squirrel hunting. Where to go, What to do, How to call, Packing your game sack. By Jim Low With turkey season in the rearview mirror and Memorial Day just around the corner, Missouri hunters’ thoughts naturally turn ...
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  • Sandbar Hunting – Discovery, Ancestors, Archaeology

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    A great way to spend a post-flood summer. The Missouri River is a conveyor belt for fossils and artifacts. Finding bits of the past is like stepping onto a time machine. By Jim Low A wetter-than-average spring has the Missouri River bank-full today, but it’s only a matter of time until it falls to ...
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  • New York State Spring Turkey Opens May 1

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Spring 2017 will be Above 20,000 Bird Hunter Average Successive Mild Winters Help Reproduction 2-Bird Season Bag Limit, May 1 -31, 2017 The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is opening spring turkey season on May 1 in upstate New York north of the Bronx-Westchester County line, the agency announced today. ...
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  • Turkey Flocks Weather the Missouri Rainstorm

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Last weekend’s deluge won’t cut too deeply into this year’s production. Expect normal breeding behavior for the rest of the season. By Jim Low Like everyone else, I was astonished at how much rain fell on southern Missouri over the past weekend, and I was riveted by news of the flooding it caused.  ...
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  • Rocky Mountain Warhead Broadheads for Compound Bows and Crossbows

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Deployment System is Durable, Deadly, Stainless Steel Blades Inexpensive: Under $20 for 3-Pack From Superior, Wisconsin, a well-known name in the archery broadhead market, Rocky Mountain, debuted its new product line at the ATA in Indianapolis this year.  As part of the new line up, Rocky Mountain introduced the new Warhead, a ...
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  • Fire!

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    It’s not a four-letter word if you are trying to maintain high-quality habitat. It’s a prescription for healthy wildlife By Jim Low They probably didn’t understand the role of fire in nutrient cycling, but they knew that fire renewed landscapes.  They might not have known that periodic removal of dead vegetation from ground ...
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  • Meeting the Next Challenge: Chronic Wasting Disease

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Meeting the Next Challenge: Chronic Wasting Disease
    • Once again, it’s time for Missourians to stand up for wild resources • White-tail Deer Herd in Trouble • Missouri Constitution Change Required, Needs Voter Help By Jim Low The more things change, the more they stay the same. The growing menace posed by chronic wasting disease (CWD), if left unchecked, will ultimately destroy ...
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  • Delta Waterfowl Report Explores Looming Crisis: Declining Numbers of Duck Hunters

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    USA Waterfowl Hunter Population Down 50% Canada Waterfowl Hunter Numbers Drop 70% Read the full report online at deltawaterfowl.org or in the Spring Issue of Delta Waterfowl magazine By STOadmin BISMARCK, N.D. — We need more waterfowl hunters, and so do the ducks. A Special Report in the Spring Issue of Delta Waterfowl ...
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  • Rage Offers Brand New Turkey Broadhead

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Tested and Proven, Slip-Cam Mechanical is Deadly New Meat-Hook Design for Turkey   SUPERIOR, Wis. — Rage has designed a new broadhead specifically for turkey hunters that will eliminate the problem of a flopping-then-fleeing gobbler following an otherwise fast and deadly pass-through. The new Rage Turkey broadhead features a new cut-on-contact tip with a ...
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  • Start Early in Year to Learn Blackpowder for 2017 Deer Season

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Part 1 of 2 • In-Line Firearms are Safe, Affordable, Accurate • In Line Firearms are Handsome, Easy to Clean By Forrest Fisher All across America, hunters and game management groups have brought the considerations for ancient firearms and science closer together for the fun of new and exciting blackpowder hunting options. Most states have ...
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  • Managing Black Bear: the Mid-Atlantic’s Apex Predator

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Managing Black Bear: the Mid-Atlantic’s Apex Predator
    • Black Bear Sows Have 1-3 cubs Every Other Year • Black Bear Males are Bigger than Sows • Bear Super-Abundance: West Virginia has a 2-Bear Limit By Joe Byers Black bears thrive in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia as hunting seasons expand to meet the challenge. New York is not far ...
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  • Start Early to Learn Blackpowder for 2017 Hunting Season

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Start Early to Learn Blackpowder for 2017 Hunting Season
    • Part 2 of 2 • CVA Video – About Blackpowder Bullets • New Sabots vs. Old Ball Bullets, Details By Forrest Fisher While there are many other blackpowder firearm models that cost much more, the Optima™ Pro 209 Magnum Break-Action represented the state-of-the-art blackpowder gun building technology when I got started about a ...
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  • Doing the Right Thing

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    It’s seldom the easiest, but always the best course  Hunting Teal in the Morning Fog  When No One is Watching, There is Friendship, Kinship, Honesty By Jim Low My blood ran cold.  Moments earlier, Scott and I had been elated at doubling on a pair of dive-bombing teal.  Now, as my retriever returned with ...
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  • Colorado Elk Herd in Crosshairs

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Colorado Elk Herd in Crosshairs
    Wolves May Be Added to Colorado Landscape Elk Population Recovery in Question Wolf Population Management Control in Question By STOadmin MISSOULA, Mont.—The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is raising a word of warning about a “quiet” movement in Colorado seeking to place wolves on the landscape. It also has grave concerns about the tactics ...
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  • Possums – Odd and Ancient (Part 2 of 2)

    January 23, 2024
    Jill Easton
    Possums - Odd and Ancient (Part 2 of 2)
    Trappers Hate to Trap Possums  Possums Live Slow, Die Young   Possums Are Used for Alzheimer Studies By Jill J. Easton At two years old a possum is timeworn.  By their second birthday, a possum is starting to look and act like a codger.  Their fur loses whatever gloss and shine it once had, ...
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  • Shed the Winter Blahs

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Shed the Winter Blahs
      …by hunting antlers (Jim Low) I needed to get out of the house yesterday, so I took a brisk, 3-mile walk on trails at the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Runge Nature Center in Jefferson City.  At one point, I spied half a dozen deer.  The three bucks were easy ...
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  • Born to Hunt Pheasants

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Born to Hunt Pheasants
    Well-Trained Bird Dogs Timeless Moments with Old Friends   Tasty, Beautiful, Ringed-neck Pheasants One Surprising Modern-Day Youngster By Joe Forma The well-trained pointing Lab whirled into the red brush and a gorgeous Ringed-neck Pheasant clawed his way airborne.  The first of some 50 such flushes for my son, Andy Forma, of Penfield, New York, and ...
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  • RAGE Arrow Packages Now in KIT FORM

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    RAGE Arrow Packages Now in KIT FORM
    Pre-Cut to 29.5 inches SC-2 Blade, 100 Grains Advanced Shock Collar, Non-Fouling Design Posted by Forrest Fisher Folks don’t need to tell me personally about how effective the Rage broadheads are.  They have proven their value with me the last 7 years.  They are deadly effective. Rage, the number-one-selling mechanical broadhead on the market, now ...
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  • Brothers That Hunt Together – A Video Story

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Brothers That Hunt Together - A Video Story
    Lessons for Stalking Pronghorn Learn About Tracking, Harvest Enjoy Field Dressing Tactics, Savory Cooking Details By Forrest Fisher In this wonderful video from Ramp Media Outdoors, learn about the passion of how and why hunting brings two brothers together.  Despite their extremely busy lives, Matt McMorris and brother, Jeremy, share details about hunting and ...
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  • Duck Ship of Fools

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Duck Ship of Fools
    Fog, Friends, Food, Fun – All About Duck Hunting Farms Ponds Frozen, Search Reservoirs for Quacker’s   Using Google Maps and Digital Reckoning By Jim Low Like a faithless lover, duck hunting is hard to give up on.  I, along with many other Missouri waterfowlers, wrote off the 2016-2017 duck season as a bad ...
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  • Bowhunting Woman of South Africa

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Bowhunting Woman of South Africa
    Adventure, Conservation-Oriented, Sacred Moments Full Accommodations, Meals Included, Max Comfort Professional Hunter Guide is Part of Package Exciting, Relatively Low Cost By Forrest Fisher When Jack Coad and Anne O’Leary made a plan to hunt Africa, they planned the hunt of their lifetime.  They discovered that South Africa offered more than 30 species of animals ...
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  • Possums – Odd and Ancient (Part 1 of 2)

    January 23, 2024
    Jill Easton
    Possums - Odd and Ancient (Part 1 of 2)
    Possums are Marsupial’s Possums Play Dead to Live Possums have More Teeth than Any Other Mammal By Jill J. Easton Possums are weird.  These 70-million-year-old survivors from the time of dinosaurs have none of the normal qualifications for survival.  They are slow and empty-headed, their main trick is to play dead.  Almost nothing will ...
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  • Trapping Coyote: The Process (Part 5)

    January 23, 2024
    Jill Easton
    Coyotes: 40 Pounds of Muscle that Can Bite Learn “Smart” to Trap Coyote Leg-Hold Traps Work Best By Jill J. Easton A grown coyote can be 40 pounds of muscle and mayhem, and they are one of the smartest animals in the woods.  Fasten your traps well and don’t ever assume that a cowering ...
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  • Ugly Ducking: Hunting Show or Hunting Porn?

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Ugly Ducking: Hunting Show or Hunting Porn?
    New Shotshells DO Shoot Farther and Kill – BE CAREFUL Hunt for the Camaraderie, the Excitement, the Deep Spiritual Meaning By Jim Low I don’t ordinarily watch hunting shows on television, but the Hunt Channel caught me in a weak moment.  I’m still coming to terms with the fact that my 2016 duck ...
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  • Coyote are Killers – both Good and Bad

    January 23, 2024
    Jill Easton
    Coyote are Killers - both Good and Bad
    Coyotes are Adaptable Coyotes are Omnivores – they eat Animals and Plants Coyote Screams are Scary  How to Protect your Property from Coyotes By Jill J. Easton The banshee keening crescendo turned into high pitched screams.  The cacophony made our visitors from New Orleans run to lock the doors and draw the blinds.  The sounds ...
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  • Crossbow Hunting – Sweeping the Nation

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Crossbow Hunting - Sweeping the Nation
    What You Need to Know – Which Bow for You? Bolt Selection Factors, Hunting Tactics   Shooting for Fun By Forrest Fisher If you like to hit the bullseye on your target, you like to shoot arrows, except you’re getting older and you’re having problems drawing your compound bow, you might be like quite ...
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  • Dogs, Rabbits and Smith & Wesson

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Dogs, Rabbits and Smith & Wesson
    Labs, Beagles & Bassets    Secret, Succulent Rabbit Recipe  By Jim Low My friend Dave Urich has hunted rabbits behind beagles since childhood.  He has always loved the music of baying hounds, but he doesn’t enjoy racing to rescue freshly shot bunnies from a pack of crazed canines.  He has never succeeded in ...
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  • Dogs, Rabbits and Smith & Wesson

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Dogs, Rabbits and Smith & Wesson
    Labs, Beagles & Bassets    Secret, Succulent Rabbit Recipe  By Jim Low My friend Dave Urich has hunted rabbits behind beagles since childhood.  He has always loved the music of baying hounds, but he doesn’t enjoy racing to rescue freshly shot bunnies from a pack of crazed canines.  He has never succeeded in ...
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  • How to Protect your Property from Coyotes

    January 23, 2024
    Jill Easton
    How to Protect your Property from Coyotes
    Coyote Male-Female Pairs Bond for Life Cold, Gray-Green Eyes Glow Yellow at Night Coyotes are Smart and Fast, Can Run 30 mph By Jill J. Easton Coyote Migrations Originally these canines lived only in the northern and western United States.  s the plains were settled and farmed, they gradually moved across the country following civilization, ...
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  • Trapping Tales to Learn From – Part 3

    January 23, 2024
    Jill Easton
    Trapping Tales to Learn From – Part 3
    Catching Raccoons Cute, Dangerous, Carries Many Diseases #1 Eater of Ground Nesting Birds (Turkey, etc.) Consider Calling a Licensed Professional By Jill J Easton Don’t let that cute mask, button eyes and cute stripped tail fool you.  Far too often, having raccoons for neighbors can become a terrible nuisance.   These animals are smart and ...
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  • Florida Duck & Dove Hunting

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Florida Duck & Dove Hunting
    Things to Know – Florida FWC Rules Licenses, Seasons, Bag Limits What You Can and Cannot Do By Tony Young There’s a chill in the Florida air, and soon children will be out of school on winter break. During the holidays, I encourage you to take time off from work and spend some quality ...
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  • Trapping – Part 2 in a Series

    January 23, 2024
    Jill Easton
    Trapping – Part 2 in a Series
    The Hog Epidemic is Here Now! Invasive Species, Out of Control Existing Wildlife Threatened – Forage Issue One SOW Yields 200 newborns in One year! By Jill J. Easton For landowners in an ever-increasing area of the country, hogs are a horribly expensive pest.  Their rooting makes land untillable, requiring thousands of dollars in leveling ...
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  • Deer Hunting with Friends is Tradition

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Deer Hunting with Friends is Tradition
    Missouri Deer Magic Mentoring – Builds Character, Humility  Camaraderie, Friendship, Fun   Organic Meat for the Freezer By Jim Low One of the things I love about deer hunting in Missouri is its democratic nature.  With 2.5 million acres of public hunting land managed by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the USDA Forest ...
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  • Extraordinary Friends Help Keep Hunters Young

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Extraordinary Friends Help Keep Hunters Young
    Shoot When Your Target is in Range Respect for Opening Day  Can Deer See Colors? By Joe Forma Editor Note: This is a touching story of a Dad’s exciting e-message to his son, sharing the fun he found hunting with a friend and his family on one special opening day of big game firearms ...
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  • What Can Men Learn from Lady Hunters?

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    What Can Men Learn from Lady Hunters?
    More Than a Sunrise Greeting! Sacred Skills for Focus  Natural “Learn How”   By Forrest Fisher For learning new things about something that men are typically very good at, like hunting – when the outdoor ladies commit, they are ALL IN.  Especially when they want to be involved in ALL of the sport: aiming, shooting, ...
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  • Hunting Treestand Recall

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Hunting Treestand Recall
    Summit Climbing Stand – Model: Explorer SD (Closed Front) Possible Fall HAZARD Details: Summit Treestands LLC, Recalls Explorer SD Closed Front Climbing Stands Due to Fall Hazard Recall Summary Name of Product:  Summit Treestands, LLC 2016 Model Year Explorer SD Closed Front Climbing Stands. Hazard: Weld may break during use leading to potential fall hazard.  Remedy: ...
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  • Trappers and Wildlife – in Trouble

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Trappers and Wildlife – in Trouble
    Understanding Trapping, a Series – PART 1 Predators and Prey Community Safety Trapper Heritage Dwindling  By Jill J Easton The sad truth is that just like hungry hunters the world over, wild predators like eggs. Ground nesting birds – quail, pheasants, grouse, turkeys – and their eggs,  are extremely vulnerable until a few weeks after ...
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  • Targeting Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Targeting Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
    Learn What It Is, What It Means By Jim Low Last weekend, Missouri hunters brought 19,200 deer to 75 stations set up by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) to gather tissue samples to be tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD).  It was a huge effort that involved approximately 1,200 MDC employees ...
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  • Outdoor Pictures – Hunting With a Camera

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Outdoor Pictures - Hunting With a Camera
    Advice from Tony Bynum Eye Contact, Image and Action Photo Gear By Forrest Fisher There are those incredible moments in your lifetime when you meet someone and his work, and quickly realize that even after spending a lifetime in the outdoors, there is yet another resource that you need to know so much more ...
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  • Formula for Daily-Double Deer Success

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Formula for Daily-Double Deer Success
    Friends, Food Plots, Trail Cams are Key Keep it Simple Archery Strategy  Share Knowledge – Think with Confidence By Forrest Fisher Is there anything better that sharing a day in the archery woods with great friends and coming away with two very healthy 8-point bucks?  Tough to beat. That’s how it was for Ryan Van ...
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  • New York Big Game Hunting Firearms Season for Southern Zone Begins November 19

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    New York Big Game Hunting Firearms Season for Southern Zone Begins November 19
    -Hunters encouraged to pass on young bucks By Forrest Fisher In the highly sportsmen populated southern zone sector of the Empire State, hunters have been waiting all year for the 3-week long big game firearms hunting season. Wait no longer, it will open this Saturday, November 19, at sunrise. Despite an unusually balmy ...
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  • Green Timber Duck Hunting

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Green Timber Duck Hunting
    -Fun, Tasty Harvest, Little Gear Needed By Jim Low One of the things I miss from time that I have spent in Arkansas is green-timber duck hunting.  Missouri once had a considerable cypress-tupelo swamp in the southeastern corner of the state, but precious little of that is left.  What remains is a ...
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  • Hunting in Florida

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Hunting in Florida
    -License is Required -Small Game, Wild Turkey, Boars, Bears, Deer and more -November is Key Month By Forrest Fisher If you’re packing your snowbird bags already and are planning ahead to hunt in Florida this year, November in Florida is an awesome month to head for the woods.  You have the option to hunt ...
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  • Deer Hunting, the Rut, Common Scents

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Deer Hunting, the Rut, Common Scents
    -Super Moon Last Night: Rut Happens in 6-10 days -Use an Effective Scent  -Keep a Grunt Call and Bleat Call Handy By Forrest Fisher All year long, hunters talk with each other about their great experiences in the woods, especially with observing whitetail deer. During the peak of the rut, observing deer is the ...
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  • Going to Ground – All about Hunting Blinds

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Going to Ground – All about Hunting Blinds
    –Ground Blinds offer Advantages of Comfort and Safety -Low cost, Protection from Weather  By Jim Low A while back, a friend invited me to hunt deer on his property.  When I asked if he had a tree stand I could hunt from, or if I needed to bring my own, he said he ...
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  • Keep Warm, Hunt Longer, Harvest Bigger

    January 23, 2024
    Dave Barus
    Keep Warm, Hunt Longer, Harvest Bigger
    -Avoid Sending the “Squirm Message” -Simplify On-Stand Longevity -New Technology is Key By Matt McMorris As the sun begins to set on another November hunt, I feel myself squirming with discomfort.  The cold has begun to nip at my fingers, creep into my toes and then move throughout my body, making what was supposed ...
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  • Crossbow for Big Game

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Easy, Fun, Less Training Time By Forrest Fisher It took 30 years of haggling with legislators and blocked laws in a confused legal system that New York is famous for, not to mention high taxes, but the good usually does win over time, and so it is in New York today.  Crossbow ...
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  • Just Doodling, Timber-Doodling

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Just Doodling, Timber-Doodling
    -Woodcock Hunting is a Challenge -Flushes, Shots, Missouri Fun By Jim Low It isn’t my favorite game bird – that would be the wild turkey.  Nor is it the most delicious I’ve ever eaten – that would the rock ptarmigan.  But for a wingshooting challenge, my hands-down favorite is the American woodcock.  If ...
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  • False Rut – Always between Fridays & Mondays!

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    False Rut – Always between Fridays & Mondays!
    -Early Season Deer Hunting  -Scent and Scrape Control -Understanding Moon Phase  By Forrest Fisher At this time of year, sportsmen that live to hunt deer with a bow crave the sweet dreams of active outdoor weekends.  For archery hunters, every weekend is a hopeful time for finding the deer in their reproductive rut and ...
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  • False Rut – Always between Fridays & Mondays!

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    False Rut – Always between Fridays & Mondays!
    -Early Season Deer Hunting  -Scent and Scrape Control -Understanding Moon Phase  By Forrest Fisher At this time of year, sportsmen that live to hunt deer with a bow crave the sweet dreams of active outdoor weekends.  For archery hunters, every weekend is a hopeful time for finding the deer in their reproductive rut and ...
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  • Successful Deer Hunting-How to Hunt

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Successful Deer Hunting-How to Hunt
    -Learn Science and Skills to Hunt -New 267 Page e-Book -Written by QDMA Field Experts By Forrest Fisher There may not be an organization in the outdoors that has done more to allow hunter folks to learn about how they behave and what to do about becoming a more effective hunter than the Quality ...
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  • Hunting is an Extraordinary Experience

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Hunting is an Extraordinary Experience
    -Real-Life Close Encounters  -Tradition and Wisdom = Proven Advice -Building Steady Nerves By Forrest Fisher Big bucks and big doe’s too, are at home in thick mature forests.  On very windy days where gusts are creeping up to 35-40 mph and more, look for sunken creek beds in gorged out valleys to find the ...
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  • Crossbow Deer

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Crossbow Deer
    -Boundless Potential -Youth Replenished for Aging Hunters By Jim Low Only 7 a.m., and my mind already wandered.  The temperature was in the low 40s, not bad for bowhunting in early October.  I was excited about being in my favorite tree stand, 20 yards from the intersection of two deer trails, a creek ...
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  • Hunters Donate 11 Million Venison Meals

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Hunters Donate 11 Million Venison Meals
    -Food banks and individuals are thankful for hunter generosity -Hunters Help Communities across America in Many Ways By STOadmin When you’re passing the turkey and stuffing around the Thanksgiving dinner table, here’s a story to tell–one that would not be possible without the thoughtfulness and generosity of hunters. A new study commissioned by the ...
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  • How Knot to Fall – #1 Hunting Tip

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    How Knot to Fall – #1 Hunting Tip
    Tree Stand Safety Prusik Knot Many hunters don’t know that accidental falls from tree stands – not firearms-related injuries – are the most frequent cause of deer hunting-related injuries. Until fairly recently, hunters who used tree stands simply accepted this risk as inherent to their sport. Few took measures to prevent falls and ...
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  • Deeking Out Over Decoys

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Deeking Out Over Decoys
    No Ordinary Rubber Ducky! One of my earliest memories is being in the bathtub with my brother, Rick, and playing with inflatable ducks. That’s right, rubber duckies. But not just any rubber duckies. These were life-sized, and they were painted with life-like colors. Years later, it finally occurred to me to ...
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  • Youth Ready for Big Game Hunt in New York

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Youth Ready for Big Game Hunt in New York
    – 3-Day Columbus Weekend Special Firearm Season (Oct. 8-10, 2016) – For Properly Licensed Youth – 14 and 15 years Old The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reminds us that this weekend brings a new opportunity for junior hunters, as New York’s annual Youth Big Game Hunt on Columbus Day ...
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  • IF IT BEEPS, DIG IT! – Part 1 of 2

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    IF IT BEEPS, DIG IT! - Part 1 of 2
    By Richard H. Creason Metal Detectors, Simple Outdoor Fun Getting Started in Treasure-Finding Step by slow step, you cross the old yard. Your eyes scan the ground. Your ears are tuned to the slightest sound. The machine you’re holding follows the motion of your arm—right, left, right, left. Anticipation builds. You know it’s ...
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  • IF IT BEEPS, DIG IT! – Part 2 of 2

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    IF IT BEEPS, DIG IT! - Part 2 of 2
    By Rich Creason Metal Detectors, Fun and Profitable Seek New Sites, Learn About Permissions Required After you decide on your dealer and the machine you want, ask for a lesson on how to use it. This includes instructions on the proper way to get your finds out of the ground. For most targets, ...
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  • Hunters! It’s Deer Tick Protection Time

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Hunters! It’s Deer Tick Protection Time
    There is this nasty pest of a disease called Lyme. This is becoming a breakout year for deer tick numbers in the northeast, especially New York, and the infested percentage of deer ticks with Lyme is increasing rapidly. Be cautious, here is more about what to know and what to ...
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  • Tealgating – Outdoor Cooking for Hunters

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    My first forays into cooking anything other than scrambled eggs often involved ground beef and cream of mushroom soup. Those dishes weren’t sophisticated, but they were fast, easy and sustaining for a college student for whom “middle-age spread” was still several years away. Campbell’s got less and less of my business ...
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  • Hunter Safety Education is Key to Hunter Safety

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Hunter Safety Education is Key to Hunter Safety
    Just like many of us already know, education is the key to success in just about anything in life. From the numbers and illustrations noted on the New York State DEC Hunter Safety Website – and shared here, we can see that New York State’s hunter education courses have proven ...
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  • New York State Whitetail Deer News

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    New York State Whitetail Deer News
    Pilot Project Concludes on Public Input for Deer Populations Evaluation and Assessment Continues The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has a pilot effort in progress to improve collection of public input about deer impacts and desired deer population levels (www.dec.ny.gov/press/103053.html). This is a collaborative venture with Cornell University and ...
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  • Give Up Wooden Tree Stands!

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Give Up Wooden Tree Stands!
    A True Story of Survival Dave Reid of New Bloomfield had been in his tree stand for about three hours on opening day of the November deer season. He was stiff from sitting as still as possible, so he allowed himself the luxury of a stretch. “I stood up, and the stand ...
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  • Consider a Spike Camp This Fall

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Consider a Spike Camp This Fall
    Choosing to hunt deer and elk without a guide from a tent camp in the heart to game country is high adventure and an affordable option. Shooting light had barely arrived when a bull elk stepped from the edge of the park 200 yards away. Although I only caught a glimpse, ...
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  • Hunter Preparations – Mixed Bag

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Hunter Preparations - Mixed Bag
    -Doves, Ducks and Deer are sure to be on hunters’ minds this week -Missouri Hunters Smile and Say, “Whata’ We Hunting Today?” We made it! The long dry spell for hunting is nearly over, and Show-Me State hunters once again will be savoring the piquant smell of burned gunpowder and the twang ...
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  • Firearms Safety Leadership News

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Firearms Safety Leadership News
    For Junior Competition Shooting Mentors and Coaches ON THE MARK is published quarterly by the Civilian Marksmanship Program (http://thecmp.org). It is dedicated to disseminating news and information about junior shooting activities to leaders and coaches of junior shooting clubs, teams and camps. The primary purpose of the publication is to help youth ...
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  • Range Finding with a SIG

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Range Finding with a SIG
    Simple, Fast, Accurate Hi-Performance Distance Measurement By Doug Howlett SIG Electro-Optics is relatively new to the outdoor scene, but SIG quality certainly is not. Starting as the Swiss Wagon Factory in 1853 to build wagons and railway cars, it was just 11 years later that the company landed a contract with the Swiss ...
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  • Dove Hunting Opportunities Abound

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Dove Hunting Opportunities Abound
    Dove Hunters Should Have Trigger Itch in Missouri Great Prospects – Add Considerations for Safety A big plus for all dove hunters, the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has a long-standing practice of managing hundreds of fields in statewide conservation areas for the benefit of doves and dove hunters. Most of these fields ...
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  • What You Need this Fall: Elk Calls with Passion

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    What You Need this Fall: Elk Calls with Passion
    Built by Elk Hunters for Elk Hunters By Brad Fenson I’m already preparing for elk hunts this fall and like every year, I look for any advantage I can find to help me anchor a bull when I head to the woods. Checking out the new Rocky Mountain Hunting Calls (RMHC) at ...
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  • I Hunt With a Canon

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    I Hunt With a Canon
    By Jim Monteleone I love the outdoors and all its creatures. There are days in the fall when I carry a bow and others when a firearm is the tool of choice. Then there are other days when I carry a Canon. Not a cannon but a Canon. It is a ...
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  • Nevada Proposes Trail Camera Ban

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Nevada Proposes Trail Camera Ban
    We learned last month that the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners recently discussed restrictions regarding the use of trail cameras and proposing new regulations. No Cam’s during Hunting Season  The proposed regulation would ban the use of trail cameras for big game hunting between August 1 and December 31 in Nevada wildlife ...
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  • Wild Boneheads of Nature

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Wild Boneheads of Nature
    Learn About Deer Sex – Antlers, Genes, Hormones and Nutrition I changed out the memory cards in my trail cameras yesterday.  This always feels like Christmas, not knowing what I will find “under the tree.”  This time, the biggest excitement was a close-up of a buck that stuck its head right ...
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  • TurkeyFan.com – Lure & Blind All in One

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    TurkeyFan.com - Lure & Blind All in One
    New Tactic Device is Deadly Tool Wanna’ fight?  Turkeys do.  After decades of learning the nuances of yelps, purrs, and clucks I’ve come to the conclusion that the best way to outsmart an old gobbler is to challenge it with a rival. Ken Byers and I were cruising a large ranch when ...
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  • Get Ready Now for Next Turkey Season!

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Get Ready Now for Next Turkey Season!
    Irresistible Calls to Touch a Tom’s Hot Button Spring gobblers like what they like.  Some will shock gobble an owl hoot, crow call, even a car horn while a similar tom roosting just down the ridge won’t make a peep. My dad and I used to hunt a small farm that held ...
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  • TurkeyFan.com – Lure & Blind All in One

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    TurkeyFan.com - Lure & Blind All in One
    New Tactic Device is Deadly Tool Wanna’ fight?  Turkeys do.  After decades of learning the nuances of yelps, purrs, and clucks I’ve come to the conclusion that the best way to outsmart an old gobbler is to challenge it with a rival. Ken Byers and I were cruising a large ranch when ...
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  • My first spring turkey hunt

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    My first spring turkey hunt
    There is nothing quite so exciting! By Tony Young My interest in hunting the quirky-moving, nervous-acting, but beautifully colored wild turkey was piqued about 15 years ago by an old high school friend and bandmate of mine, Todd Bevis. Todd’s a turkey-hunting fanatic if I’ve ever seen one, and the excitement in his ...
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  • Turkeys by Proxy

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Turkeys by Proxy
    Mentoring, First-Time Turkey Hunting, Sharing the Outdoors I don’t recall exactly when I started deriving more pleasure from game shot by others, than from animals I bagged myself.  I suppose it was inevitable that the switch to proxy hunting would begin with the wild turkey, whose pursuit offers rewards too abundant ...
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  • Hunt Safely – Turkey Season is on

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    Hunt Safely – Turkey Season is on
    The message from the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism is a message that applies to turkey hunters across the country as turkey seasons open and run for about a month in multiple states at this time of year – Hunt Safely. The Kansas Spring Turkey Season opened April 12 ...
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  • Share the Outdoors with a Youth Turkey Hunt

    January 23, 2024
    Bill Hilts
    Share the Outdoors with a Youth Turkey Hunt
    New York’s spring youth turkey hunt is just around the corner, set for April 23-24, 2016.  This is a perfect opportunity to give junior nimrods the opportunity to have the outdoor stage all to themselves – along with an adult mentor, of course.  All the young hunter needs is a ...
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  • Spring Turkey Woods is a Special Place

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Spring Turkey Woods is a Special Place
    Sometimes old friends meet in a familiar place.  If you’re a turkey hunter, you know there is something extra special for those moments when a hunter and the woods come together in search of a nearby gobble.  It’s downright exciting! There is a special sort of celebration to enjoy because this ...
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  • Morels or Else!

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Morels or Else!
    Hunting for Mushrooms is Great Outdoor Fun My wife is remarkably tolerant of all the time I spend outdoors. I flatter myself that she is genuinely glad when I return, but I also have noticed that she welcomes me home with special enthusiasm when I bring back venison or morel mushrooms.  ...
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  • Ethical Turkey Hunters are Safer and Happier

    January 23, 2024
    Jim Low
    Ethical Turkey Hunters are Safer and Happier
    Ethics are important for all hunters, but for turkey hunters, they can make the difference between a pleasurable outdoor experience and disaster.  If you don’t believe it, ask David Bozoian. He was hunting on his land in Lewis County, Missouri, when two men who lacked ethics came onto his property.  The ...
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  • Sweet-Seventeen for Woodchuck Control

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Sweet-Seventeen for Woodchuck Control
    Even at age 93, my father was a terror on groundhogs and kept his rifle propped in the corner of the kitchen for quick action when a chuck began feeding in his alfalfa field.  A crack shot, the WWII marksman would lean out the kitchen window and unleash his vengeance ...
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  • Figuring out Whitetail Deer Management in New York

    January 23, 2024
    Bill Hilts
    Figuring out Whitetail Deer Management in New York
    To the dismay of many deer hunters in Western New York, the state announced last fall that they would be going through with their plan to adopt new regulations in 12 Wildlife Management Units around the state where deer populations have gotten out of control.  This includes WMUs 9A and ...
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  • FANNING Your Way to FANTASTIC Turkey Hunting

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    FANNING Your Way to FANTASTIC Turkey Hunting
    Call in the “Boss Hog” tom – Here is the Trick to How Savvy turkey hunters use creativity to outsmart wily gobblers, and there are few hunting challenges that compare to taking a mature gobbler with a bow and arrow.  Gobblers, blessed with incredible eyesight, quickly detect the draw of a ...
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  • NYS: Zero Hunting Fatalities for 2015

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    NYS: Zero Hunting Fatalities for 2015
    The 2015 New York hunting season proved to be one of the safest on record and yielded the first year without a hunting-related shooting fatality since the 1950s, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Acting Commissioner Basil Seggos announced today. DEC’s 2015 Hunting Safety Statistics report (PDF, 141 ...
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  • Hunt Africa Now – It’s never been cheaper or more fun!

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Hunt Africa Now - It’s never been cheaper or more fun!
    I see as much game in one African day as I may in an entire season in North America.  The experience is awesome and within the financial reach of every working man or woman – the bargain basement deal of a lifetime. Outfitters in South Africa and Namibia offer a ...
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  • New York State Big Game Study Tells Tale

    January 23, 2024
    stoadmin
    New York State Big Game Study Tells Tale
    New York Study Plan Result is to Educate and Encourage Hunters to Voluntarily Pass-up Young Bucks  A multi-year study to guide buck management in New York State found deer hunters prefer to harvest older bucks and that further expanding mandatory antler restrictions is not warranted at this time.  Instead, NYS will ...
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  • Ruger American Rifle goes “Magnum”

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Ruger American Rifle goes “Magnum”
    One of the best deer rifles in the country just got an upgrade.  Here’s a report from one of the first users. Sometimes a fellow gets lucky and that’s how I felt when I had the chance to hunt elk with Ken Jorgenson, marketing director of Sturm Ruger.  The American Rifle ...
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  • Why Hunt Canadian Whitetails?

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Why Hunt Canadian Whitetails?
    One GOOD Answer: Far More GIANT Deer, Far fewer Hunters! Whitetail deer are the most populous big game animal in the USA, so why should a hunter travel to Canada to hunt them? Alberta “Most state-side hunters have never hunted deer where there are caribou, elk, mule deer, grizzly bear, black bear ...
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  • Mandatory Antler Restriction will be Voluntary for Most of New York State

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Mandatory Antler Restriction will be Voluntary for Most of New York State
    When the New York State Conservation Council (NYSCC) Big Game Committee met last week at Pine Bush Discovery Center in Guilderland, New York (near Albany), the guest list was filled with many time-honored members of the New York State big game hunting community, including New York State Department of Environmental ...
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  • Gearing Up for Spring Gobblers

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Gearing Up for Spring Gobblers
    Turkey hunters love gear and it seems we can never get enough to outsmart those un-killable toms.  I once hunted a flock of Merriam’s in South Dakota that had been pursued relentlessly the week prior to my arrival.  “The birds are there, but they won’t come to a call and ...
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  • Longbeards, Broadheads, Your Aim

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Longbeards, Broadheads, Your Aim
    Tackling a wily spring gobbler with archery gear is super exciting, yet the broadhead you select can make all of the difference.  I learned this the hard way last spring after work caused me to miss the opening week of the season.  I have permission to hunt a small farm ...
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  • Goose Season Hunting Tips for New York’s Southern Tier

    January 23, 2024
    Bill Hilts
    Goose Season Hunting Tips for New York's Southern Tier
    Due to expanding numbers of local goose populations in the South Area of New York State, there will continue to be a relatively new late Canada goose season, March 5 – 10, this year. Hunters will be allowed to harvest five birds per person per day.  The South Area starts in ...
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  • Rabbit Hunting, an Underrated Experience

    January 23, 2024
    Tyler Mahoney
    Rabbit Hunting, an Underrated Experience
    As deer season winds down, many are left wondering what to do with their outdoor lives, but I have the solution with an underrated activity not widely talked about: rabbit hunting! If you’ve seen rabbits hopping around in your hunting area, chances are there’s a lot more you haven’t seen!  Here ...
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  • Want Excitement? Try a Winter Wolf Hunt

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Want Excitement? Try a Winter Wolf Hunt
    Pure and simple, I hate wolves.  It’s beyond me how anyone can profess a love and respect wildlife yet support these merciless killers.  Hunting in packs, wolves kill whatever animals they want, but mostly prey on big game in deep snow where they become helpless and of course calves and ...
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  • Shed Hunting – Where, When, How

    January 23, 2024
    Tyler Mahoney
    Shed Hunting – Where, When, How
    It’s That Time, Here is Some Advice Deer season may be closed for most, but a new season is just starting: shed hunting season! Searching for shed antlers offers a fun experience for everyone and also provides valuable scouting insight for next fall. Follow this advice and your shed hunts will be ...
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  • New Deer Tracker Mobile App is Effective and Free

    January 23, 2024
    Eric Dinger
    New Deer Tracker Mobile App is Effective and Free
    In the interest of helping every hunter learn more about their hunting area, QDMA and Powderhook a new free App called “Deer Tracker that allows hunters to monitor deer activity and harvests in their neck of the woods and across the country.  QDMA and Powderhook hope to use the data ...
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  • Six Tips for Bowhunting in the Cold – Late Can be Great

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Six Tips for Bowhunting in the Cold - Late Can be Great
    Call it an Arctic clipper, Polar Vortex, or other trendy name, yet whitetail deer have dealt with the challenges of winter for 1000’s of years and are doing fine. The colder the weather the more you can bet that your hunting competition is in the warm, one of the reasons ...
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  • Second Season Whitetails

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Second Season Whitetails
    When the season’s is at 4th and long most hunters punt, despite the multitude of great bucks still in the game. Here’s how to score in the final quarter, even on the last day. “You guys can sleep in tomorrow if you want,” said guide Josh Cobb, my host on the ...
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  • Squirrel Hunting – Where Hunters Learn to be Woodsmen

    January 23, 2024
    Joe & Vel Byers
    Squirrel Hunting - Where Hunters Learn to be Woodsmen
    Decades ago, squirrels were a very popular game species. I once flew to Mississippi to hunt squirrels with Mr. Fox, the patriarch of the Mossy Oak family, a hunt I’ll never forget. Mr. Fox belonged to a hunt club where members bagged a limit most days of the season and ...
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  • Hot Whitetail Doe’s Search for Mr. Right Buck

    January 23, 2024
    Forrest Fisher
    Hot Whitetail Doe’s Search for Mr. Right Buck
    In the norther zone archery woods right now, from Maine to North Dakota, the outdoor whitetail deer action is ready to rock as the calendar moves toward rutting activity. This is the time when rutting bucks are chasing does that are not ready to mate. As a hunter, it’s pretty ...
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  • Real Men Do Cry…Sometimes

    August 28, 2023
    Larry Whiteley
    Real Men Do Cry...Sometimes
    My dad didn’t allow me to cry, but I cried when I shot my first bird.  The big boys don’t cry and real men don’t cry rule gradually faded away after my dad passed. Men need to know there is nothing wrong with showing emotions. That does not make them any less ...
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  • Spring is Ticking into Summer

    June 16, 2023
    Dave Barus
    Spring is Ticking into Summer
    Deer Ticks (Blacklegged Ticks  – Ixodes Scapularis) can carry Lyme Disease and are VERY TINY in physical size.  Protect yourself by becoming aware of their size and available repellents (Picaridin & Permethrin) that can work to keep ticks off of you and your loved ones. Learn what to do if you ...
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  • May 9, 2023
    Forrest Fisher
    The Hunting Wire is looking for Voice of Leadership Panelists  Special interest in voices from the guide/outfitting realm, ammunition communities, archery communities, local/state/federal agencies If you’re interested, send me an email at jay@theoutdoorwire.com The Hunting Wire team would like to thank you for helping us grow in 2023. We are bigger and better ...
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  • NYS Hunters are Safe, Responsible, and Respectful in the Big Game Woods – Season Opens Saturday – Nov. 19, 2022

    November 17, 2022
    Dave Barus
    NYS Hunters are Safe, Responsible, and Respectful in the Big Game Woods - Season Opens Saturday - Nov. 19, 2022
    Hunter Orange or Pink is required when hunting with a firearm in NYS – NYS Hunting Accidents in 2021 are the LOWEST ON RECORD. NYS Hunter Education information: Basic Rules of Hunter Safety. Chautauqua County is among the highest deer harvest areas in NYS. NYS Whitetail Deer are 100 percent CWD-FREE. More than 200,000 ...
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  • In Georgia, Time to start filling the freezer with venison!

    September 10, 2022
    Dave Barus
    In Georgia, Time to start filling the freezer with venison!
    Georgia allows hunters to harvest up to 10 antlerless deer and no more than two antlered deer. Deer of either sex may be taken with archery equipment at any time on private land during the deer season. To pursue deer in Georgia, hunters must have a valid hunting license, a big game ...
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  • When do Illinois Ladies Bag a GIANT Triple-Spur Turkey?

    May 28, 2022
    Dawn Redner
    When do Illinois Ladies Bag a GIANT Triple-Spur Turkey?
    Answer: During the 2022 Illinois turkey hunting season! 25-pound bird, 12-inch beard, double-triple spurs…UNREAL. Full camo shotgun, full camo boots and garb, 25-yards, aim, squeeze, shot – BANG…BIRD DOWN. A surreal moment after harvest, it will last me FOR ALL TIME. By Dawn Redner, with Forrest Fisher The Illinois turkey season was open and, honestly, ...
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  • Ticks the Season! It’s Turkey Time

    March 29, 2022
    Dave Barus
    Ticks the Season! It’s Turkey Time
    By Bob Holzhei With tick season just a few weeks away, outdoor folks – especially turkey hunters, are preparing to sit their butts down in the woods. It might be good to know about the tick prevention safety guide that has been developed by Brian Anderson, who is from Iron Mountain, ...
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  • 4-PLAY for Christmas! …A Love Story

    November 20, 2020
    Dave Barus
    Woodsy turkey call sounds combine screech and scratch controls Henry C. Gibson and Eric Steinmetz each provided sound innovations about 120 years apart Tone and tune change in one box that allows clucking, purring, yelping and cackling is about pure genius  By Larry Whiteley Now some of you probably read that headline, and your ...
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  • It’s Amazing what can Happen…When you Teach a Boy to Shoot a Bow

    June 30, 2020
    Larry Whiteley
    It’s Amazing what can Happen...When you Teach a Boy to Shoot a Bow
    Mentors play an important role in our outdoor heritage and future By Larry Whiteley David Merrill grew up hiking, fishing, and camping in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. It was an amazing place where a young David would discover many life experiences in the great outdoors as he roamed through the mountains and valleys ...
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  • GET READY for Next DEER SEASON right now – HERE’s HOW

    March 27, 2020
    Larry Whiteley
    GET READY for Next DEER SEASON right now - HERE's HOW
    New hunting land…I saw 33 deer on one day, 57 deer on another day, here’s how. Controlling your body odor is critical, there is only one good way, most critical. Trail cam’s that talk with remote pictures can help us map out deer kill zones. By Larry Whiteley You are probably thinking why ...
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  • Looking to Find Deer on New Hunting Land? It starts now…for Next Year!

    November 27, 2019
    Hunter Whiteley
    Looking to Find Deer on New Hunting Land? It starts now...for Next Year!
    Preparation is key, my 4-step “How-To” process: Identify Deer Trails, make false scrapes, choose key areas Hang tree stands, add safety lifelines Control human scent (what works for me and my family) Monitor weather, look for a rising barometer and cold front: Prime Time By Hunter Whiteley Going into this year’s hunting season, I was ...
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  • SIGHTMARK is on Target with Affordable Scope Quality

    December 13, 2018
    Larry Whiteley
    SIGHTMARK is on Target with Affordable Scope Quality
    Sightmark riflescopes include a lifetime warranty Multicoated Optics for Max Light Transmission in all conditions Etched glass reticles, in red or green, are illuminated to deliver optimal shot placement Easy-to-use Elevation and Windage Adjustments Durable, Handsome, Affordable By Larry Whitely I was asked to do a review on the Sightmark Core TX 4-16×44 MR ...
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  • WATERFOWL SEASON…Effective Gear that Works

    November 14, 2018
    Larry Whiteley
    WATERFOWL SEASON...Effective Gear that Works
    Decoys, Calls and Dry Gear to Bring Home the Birds Get a Waterfowl Shotgun that is Dependable   By Larry Whiteley Waterfowl season is here or almost here depending on where you live. If you are addicted to waterfowl hunting like my family, here are some of the products my family and I use ...
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  • How to Be a Better Deer Hunter

    November 3, 2018
    Larry Whiteley
    How to Be a Better Deer Hunter
    Stay dry, Stay Still, Stay Safe – Here’s How Smell like the woods, Know Where You Are and Want To Go, Bring the Deer to You – Here’s How Deer Down, Time for Venison Jerky – Here’s How By Larry Whiteley Deer hunting season is here if you are a bow or crossbow hunter ...
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  • IT MAKES NO SCENTS

    July 25, 2018
    Larry Whiteley
    IT MAKES NO SCENTS
    Modern Secret for Seeing More Deer When to Use Cover Scent Why Deer can Smell Us By Larry Whiteley My wife has what you might call a “sensitive nose”. She smells odors a lot of times and I don’t. When I get in her vehicle it smells like a rose garden or an ocean ...
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  • THIS COULD BE YOUR LAST DEER SEASON

    July 19, 2018
    Larry Whiteley
    THIS COULD BE YOUR LAST DEER SEASON
    Some 300-500 hunters are KILLED ANNUALLY in tree stand accidents Some 6,000 hunters sustain permanent injuries ANNUALLY FACT: 1 out of every 3 hunters who use tree stands will fall during their hunting career By Larry Whiteley Did that headline scare you? I hope so because I wanted to get your full attention. For ...
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  • DAY DREAMS and NIGHT DREAMS

    March 21, 2018
    Larry Whiteley
    DAY DREAMS and NIGHT DREAMS
    Turkey Hunting, a Giant Gobbler, I Raise my Gun Geese Fly Overhead in V-Formation, it’s a Signal I Draw My Bow…that Green Arrow, “Oh Yea, My Story Takes a Turn By Larry Whiteley The old gobbler is searching for me. I’ve done a good job making him think I’m a hen. He’s literally tripping ...
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  • DEER CAMP – It’s About CHARACTERS

    November 6, 2017
    Larry Whiteley
    Memories, SPECIAL Times and Mice Practical Jokes, Sunrise, Sunset, Nature and DEER  Great Food, Great Stories, Great People, FUN By Larry Whiteley Every deer camp has its cast of camp characters. Individuals with their own special uniqueness, but when blended together like spices and seasonings in a recipe, make deer camp so special. My deer ...
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  • HELP FEED THOSE IN NEED THIS DEER SEASON

    October 31, 2017
    Larry Whiteley
    HELP FEED THOSE IN NEED THIS DEER SEASON
    Donate All or Part of your Deer 4,280 Hunters Donated 198,277 Pounds of Venison in 2016 SHARE THE HARVEST Program is Sponsored and Coordinated By Larry Whiteley There are thousands of struggling, needy people here in Missouri (and everywhere). Even with government assistance, it’s sometimes hard to have enough food to put on the ...
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  • Finding a Place to Deer Hunt

    May 2, 2017
    Larry Whiteley
    Where to Look and Why You Need to START NOW By Larry Whiteley I know it’s a long time until fall, but if you don’t have your own land to hunt or know somebody that will let you hunt on their land, or have a deer hunting lease; now is the time ...
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  • My Son’s First Archery Hunt

    December 6, 2016
    stoadmin
    My Son’s First Archery Hunt
    One Way to Meet Mr. Big Deer! About the “Tink-Tink” Learning Curve Moments of Joy, Moments of Magic  By Joe McAdams My son Shawn grew up in an outdoors family.  We hunt, fish, trap shoot and love the outdoors.  When he was 14 years old, he already had 2 years of small game hunting ...
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