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Entries for February 2008
Choosing Proper Arrow Length
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By Josh Sanden, Easton Archery
-- Like many things, including archery and bowhunting, personal preference plays a roll in determining proper arrow length. In my job I have the opportunity to speak with a lot of professional shooters, hunters, and pr...
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Nebraska Governor Signs Apprentice Hunter Education Bill
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From Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- Gov. Dave Heineman recently signed into law LB 690, which created the Hunter Apprentice Exemption Certificate. A signing ceremony was held in the governor's office at the state capitol, with Dr. Mark Pinker...
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Crab Claw Returns
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By Pete Cavallaro
-- I started bowhunting three years ago on some property I lease in Summit County, Ohio. I tried to hunt a majority of the property until I found an ideal location situated next to a small orchard. This particular day had been a mi...
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The One That was Meant to Be
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By Nelson Smither III
-- A few years ago, my wife gave me a snuggly pair of slippers for Christmas. The slippers are of the low-end K-mart variety. You know the type, blue corduroy outers with white imitation terry cloth insoles. The kind that aren'...
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Nebraska to Hold Mountain Hunting Class for Adults
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From Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has scheduled a hunter education class in Lincoln, Neb., on March 8 and 9 for adults who will be going out of state this fall to hunt in the mountains.
The c...
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It's Not Over til It's Over
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By George Mathis
-- My son killed this deer in December 2006, but it seems like yesterday. We were invited to a farm down in Georgia by a good friend of mine who has been trying to get me there for quite some time. When we arrived and Mr. Willis too...
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Chronic Wasting Disease not Detected in Ohio Deer
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From Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- For the sixth straight year, testing of Ohio's deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative brain disease that affects elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer.
A...
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Ohio Releases 2007-08 Preliminary Deer Season Totals
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From Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- A preliminary total of 230,400 deer were brought to Ohio's deer check stations during the 2007-08 hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. In a mo...
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Minnesota's 2007 Deer Harvest Ranks as Fourth Highest
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From Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
-- Minnesota hunters harvested slightly more than 260,000 deer during 2007, the fourth-highest deer harvest ever recorded, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
Before 2003,...
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Big Money Thumbed Down for Idaho Bighorn Sheep Tag
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From Idaho Fish and Game
-- The winning bid in an annual auction for an Idaho Special Bighorn Sheep permit set a record this year.
Frank Miles of Cecil Lake, British Columbia, bid $65,000 for the tag in the auction Friday, Feb. 8, at the annual con...
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Top 10 new Archery Products That are Less Than $100
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By Tracy Breen
-- Every year as I head to the Archery Trade Association (ATA) Show to look over what is new, I am amazed at how many bow companies continue to push the engineering envelope. Just when I think a bow can't get faster, it does. Just whe...
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TWRA Accepting Applications For 2008-2009 Student Internships
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From Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
-- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will offer several internships to students enrolled in wildlife or related programs at universities in Tennessee. These internships will be located at various TWRA r...
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The Shot of my Life
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By Gregg Fuller
-- My hands were trembling as I slipped the safety back on my Remington rifle. I was breathing hard and wondering how I had made the best two shots of my life. The evening was just getting to be big buck time. My watch told me that t...
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Hornady Wins 2008 Cabela Lifetime Business Achievement Award
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From U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance
-- Steve Hornady and the Hornady Manufacturing Company have been chosen as the recipient of the 2008 Cabela Lifetime Business Achievement Award. The presentation was during a Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (S...
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2008-09 Ohio Deer Hunting Regulations Proposed
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By Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- Ohio archery and Zone C (listed below) deer-gun hunters may again have the opportunity to take additional doe deer this fall if a proposed regulation is accepted by the Ohio Wildlife Council in April, accor...
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It's not Over Yet!
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By Michael S. Clark
-- Just when everyone is putting away their rifles and shotguns with anticipation of a great fishing season this spring, some of us would rather hold off just a bit longer on those fried fillets. Why wait on such a delicacy you a...
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And the Golden Moose Goes To...
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By Daniel Dye
-- MONTGOMERY, Ala. - "The Jackie Bushman Show" recently received an Outdoor Channel Golden Moose Award for Fan Favorite Variety Series at a ceremony held during the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vega...
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Youth Hunting Bill Moving in Four States
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From U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance
-- The Nebraska Senate passed Legislative Bill 690 on February first by a vote of 46-1 for the third and final time. LB 690 creates an apprentice hunter education exemption certificate, which allows an experienced hun...
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