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Entries for May 2009
Alabama Community Archery Program Doubles In Size
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From the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
-- The Community Archery Program doubled in size recently with the opening of the Cullman Community Archery Park, and the program is just in its infancy. Through an unprecedented al...
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A Buck Named Big Boy
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By Christopher Fortney
-- I was beginning to think it could never happen to me. I heard stories and saw the pictures that went with them, and I couldn’t help feeling jealous of all my friends who had taken big bucks.
I purchased a Stealth Cam...
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The Ridge-Runner Buck
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By Dennis Craig
-- It was about 3:45 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2008, when I broke over the top of the alfalfa field to head into the woods. After a few minutes of quiet walking, I stood at my treestand debating if that would be the spot to hunt. I had recen...
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A Page from the Elk Journal
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By Jared Martin
-- September 10, 2008 — I just had the greatest hunting day of my life. For three weeks, I hunted most of Utah’s eneral archery elk season. My regular hunting spot was occupied by a bear sow with a cub, so I spent the las...
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Kansas offers landowners contracts for Walk-in Hunting Access
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From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- Signup deadline is July 13 for landowners interested in the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks’ (KDWP) Walk-In Hunting Access Program (WIHA). The program pays landowners to allow public ...
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Firearms Sales Figures rise for April
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From the National Shooting Sports Foundation
-- The upward trend in firearms sales continued in April, marking the sixth consecutive month of significant increases.
Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System ...
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Reminder—Leave young deer undisturbed
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From the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
-- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is reminding people to please leave what may appear to be abandoned young deer alone in the outdoors.
Every year the depar...
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Missouri hunters check 41,830 turkeys
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From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Hunters checked 8,738 turkeys May 4 through 10, bringing the total harvest for Missouri’s 1-day regular spring turkey season to 41,830, or 3.7 percent fewer than in 2008.
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NC Youth Hunter Education Skills Tournament draws 3,000
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From the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
-- West Montgomery High School, a sophomore effort in youth hunter education skills competition, recently won the senior division at the North Carolina championships. The Park Ridge Christian Sch...
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You Could Attend the Buckmasters Classic
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By David Sullivan
-- Buckmasters American Deer Foundation is accepting bids (eBay auction number 180355583699) for a very special hunt that will place you in the thick of the action on a TV hunt with Jackie Bushman! As high bidder, you and one frien...
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Birthday Buck
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By Chuck Fenger
-- It all started during the 2007 hunting season, when my wife and I were taking our kids to the movies in St. Peter. I decided to take the back roads that night.
All of a sudden, my wife got all worked up and asked if I'd seen th...
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Ohio celebrates discovery of native Sugarberry tree species
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From the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- Sugarberry, Celtis laevigata, a large, broad, fast growing deciduous tree with a rounded vase crown of spreading, pendulous branches, has recently been found in the Chilo and Utopia areas in s...
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Missouri Pond owners can apply now for pond stocking
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From the Missouri Department of Conservation
The Conservation Department has largemouth bass, bluegill and channel catfish for qualifying pond owners. Landowners who want to turn their ponds into fishing holes have until July 15 to apply for stockin...
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Georgia changes WMA designations
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From the Georgia Department of Natural Resources
-- As of July 1, the Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division will have three less wildlife management areas (WMA) in the state program. One WMA will be reduced in size.
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Common Sense Precautions Key to Avoiding Lyme Disease
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From the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
-- Iowa woodlands are turning green. For local outdoor enthusiasts, the time has arrived for such things as serious spring birding, matching wits with fan tailed gobblers and, of course, the perpetual qu...
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Twenty-Five and Counting
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By Randall C Barnes
-- Every year, I travel to LaPlata, Mo., to hunt deer with a good family friend and her son. I take my two boys, and we have a blast whether we take a whitetail or not.
My friend’s 300-acre farm is in CRP and ...
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Happenstance or Strategy?
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By Joe Cormier
-- Some might say that my 2008 hunting season was anything but ordinary. Well, that's because I’ve got this thing figured out.
I’ll let you all in on it, but let me start by sharing the events of my Nov. 11 hunt...
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