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Entries for February 2011
Cooking with Gas
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Only a few hits upside the head from hard-kicking shotshell loads were required for me to realize I can hit more ducks and clay targets when my gun kicks a little less. A gas-operated autoloader is a big help in softening the recoil of those hamme...
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Annual wildlife rules hearing questionnaire available online
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From the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- The questionnaire package for the 2011 Department of Natural Resources Spring Fish and Wildlife Rules Hearing and Annual Conservation Congress County meeting and the list of meeting locations is ...
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Wisconsin offers free turkey hunter ed clinics
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From the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- Free turkey hunter education clinics will be offered this spring by volunteer instructors. The clinics are sponsored by the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the DNR.
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Third year for increase in Indiana deer harvest
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From the Indiana Department of Natural Resources
-- Indiana hunters established a record for the third straight year by reporting an overall harvest of 134,004 deer taken during the 2010 seasons.
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Trouble on the Tundra
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The morning at our Farnie Lake caribou outpost had started out normal enough. But as I shoved the bullets into my buddy Harold Pirsig's .30-06, a scene from the movie "The Ghost and the Darkness" flashed through my mind. The mental blur dealt with...
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Utah general turkey permits on sale Feb. 24
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From the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
-- If you're a hunter who didn't obtain a limited-entry permit to hunt wild turkeys in Utah this spring, don't put your shotgun away yet. Permits to hunt during Utah's general statewide turkey hunt go on ...
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ND spring turkey applications due Feb. 16
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From the North Dakota Game and Fish Department
-- Applications for North Dakota's spring's turkey season must be in the mail and postmarked before midnight Feb. 16. Only North Dakota residents are eligible to apply.
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Florida spring turkey hunting season has 2 new rules
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From the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
-- Because of safety concerns among Florida's turkey hunters, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission has passed a rule that limits the methods of take allowed during spring turkey hunts on wildlife man...
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Ask The Biologist: Parking Your ATV
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How close should you park your atv to your stand? When walking in to your stand, if you clean a path to your stand to try and be as quiet as possible, will this alert the deer to the point where they leave the area? — Brandon K.
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Hindsight is 177 4/8
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For the last 18 years, my passion has been hunting deer in northwest Kansas’ Rooks County. And with access to about 8,000 acres of state-owned and managed hunting lands, plus about 2,000 acres of private property, I have plenty of choices.
For th...
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Southeast Oklahoma turkey season changes in 2012
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From the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
-- Stabilizing populations of Eastern wild turkeys in southeast Oklahoma is at the heart of a new state turkey hunting rule change that will go into effect in the spring of 2012.
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Feb. 11 deadline for hunter comment on proposed firearm ban
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From the National Shooting Sports Foundation
-- The National Shooting Sports Foundation is reminding all hunters and sportsmen to submit comments to the U.S. Forest Service on a proposed firearm hunting ban for areas of the Huron-Manistee National F...
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WV hunters harvest 1,126 fall turkeys in 2010
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From the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- Preliminary figures for the 2010 fall turkey hunting season show a harvest of 1,126 turkeys which made the harvest 7 percent lower than the 1,208 birds checked in during the fall 2009 sea...
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Hunters can purchase special PA spring turkey tag now
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From the Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- Pennsylvania hunters who would like a chance to harvest a second spring gobbler can purchase a second spring gobbler tag from now until the spring gobbler season begins April 30.
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Born to Hunt
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-- My love for hunting and the great outdoors began when I was a young boy in the flatlands of The Natural State, in central Arkansas. You see, I grew up in the country beside a man I loved and honored very much, my grandpa Carter.He hunted for th...
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Sometimes, You Have To Go With Your Gut
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Hunting is like many sports in that there are certain practices that are the accepted standards for success. In other words, there's a correct form to throw a football or swing a golf club, just as there are correct ways to set up a treestand for ...
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.25 Caliber: Deer Hunter's Delight
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It’s been the subject of countless discussions over the years - the infamous “Ideal Deer Cartridge.” What is it? What should it do? Does it exist? Well, it does, only it’s not a single cartridge but a family of choices all sharing a common bore si...
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Winter index monitors health of northern WI deer herd
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From the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- State wildlife staff are again monitoring the effects of winter on Wisconsin's northern deer herd using as system known as the Winter Severity Index. So far things look pretty good.
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