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Entries for March 2011
Kentucky anticipates strong spring wild turkey season
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From the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
-- When Kentucky's spring wild turkey season opens April 16, hunters should have plenty of opportunities to match wits with the older, experienced gobblers that make the sport so challengin...
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The Gobbler and the Cow
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-- It was two hours before sundown on the next to last day of Tennessee’s 2005 turkey season. I set up on a ridgetop, hoping to find where the turkeys were roosting so I could hunt there the next morning. I called, and a gobbler answered on the ne...
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April 15 deadline for ND youth grant program
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From the North Dakota Game and Fish Department
-- Wildlife, shooting, civic and fraternal organizations are encouraged to submit an application for the Encouraging Tomorrow's Hunters program, a grant program developed to assist in recruitment of the...
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Spring turkey season opens March 25 for archers
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From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- Spring turkey hunting season opens across Nebraska for archers and youth archers on March 25, with an April 9 opening for youth shotgunners and an April 16 opening for adult shotgunners. All spring turk...
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Honorable Discharge
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Hold it in your hand, show it to a hunting buddy, and chances are he’ll mistake it for a varmint or predator cartridge. The 6.8 Rem SPC is the same length as a .223 Rem, but fires a .27-caliber bullet. Its bore size is .277, the same as the .270 ...
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Deer Hunting's Public Enemy #1: A Buck's Nose
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Deer have an incredible sense of smell. Hunters have seen deer react to the scent of wood shavings, where a limb was sawed to open a shooting lane. There's no substitute for paying attention to the wind and staying downwind of where you expect to ...
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No bovine tuberculosis found in Nebraska wild deer
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From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- There were no cases of bovine tuberculosis found from the surveillance of wild deer in northeast Nebraska last fall, the Game and Parks Commission reports.
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Homeowners urged to complete open burning activity
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From the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
-- Minnesota homeowners are being encouraged to complete necessary open-burning activities now, because annual restrictions on open burning will take effect soon.
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Families Afield packs hunter recruitment economic punch
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From the National Shooting Sports Foundation
-- As states across the country search for dollars to jumpstart the economy, sportsmen have found a solution that works for all involved: more hunters, as part of a groundbreaking program that sends hundr...
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Military retirees get OK to buy lifetime licenses
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From the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
-- Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has signed legislation that allows retirees of the U.S. armed forces aged 60 and older to buy a Lifetime Combination hunting and fishing License from the Game and Fish Commission...
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From Tuning Bows to Turning Bucks
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Owning an archery shop doesn't allow much time for hunting. I have to pick and choose my windows carefully and plan well in advance. It is difficult to close shop during archery season. But bowhunting is my passion, and sometimes I just can't stay...
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Making It Count
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I’ve been hunting with my dad since I was 8 years old and fishing for as long as I can remember. I have been fortunate enough to take a doe and a nice 6-pointer during previous youth hunts, and I harvested my first turkey a few years ago during th...
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A Lesson on Pushing Deer: Don't
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-- I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and have a hunting camp along the Dickinson/Iron county line. My younger brother Mike comes up from Illinois to hunt with me.
Mike had neck surgery and couldn’t get around the woods very well, so we const...
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What Should I Plant?
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I live in northeast Ohio, and hunt a 400-acre farm but struggle with what to plant in my food plots. There are already alfalfa and clover hay fields on the property, and many cornfields around us. What should I plant to ensure that the deer will ...
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