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Entries for December 2012
Ohio opens additional weekend for deer gun season
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From Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- Ohio’s deer-gun season returns Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 15 and 16. Hunters can use a legal shotgun, muzzleloader or handgun to pursue white-tailed deer Dec. 15-16 from a half-hour before sunrise to sun...
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How to Beat a BFA
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A deer hunter for most of my life, I have experienced and witnessed what we call buck fever in various forms. That is, I have observed the symptoms of acute anxiety episodes when the fear object (buck) is presented to the subject (me).
Buck Fever...
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Is it Okay to Harvest Young Deer?
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Hi Bob. I was thinking of going for a fawn for several reasons. First, I do not need a large amount of meat. It's just me that will be eating it. Secondly, there seems to be only one doe and a couple of small bucks in the area where I hunt.
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My Kind of Fun!
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-- After a freak accident to my left hand, I didn't want to give up bowhunting. I practiced through the pain because I really wanted to take another buck with my compound bow. Tonight, I did it!
It was a slow recovery, but eventually I built back ...
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There's No Place Like Home
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Truth be told, I wasn't even going to hunt the evening of Nov. 5, 2008. I had just returned from a 10-day bowhunt in Kansas the previous week. I was facing a lot of work that had accumulated at both my business and home during my absence.
However...
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Prepare, Focus and Anticipate!
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As a professional driver, I know one of the most important aspects of racing is anticipating what lies ahead, then reacting accordingly. The same applies when hunting whitetails. When I'm behind the wheel, I try to anticipate all possible scenarios...
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Kansas law doesn't allow calling/texting deer locations
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From Kansas Dept. of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
-- Kansas law doesn’t allow hunters to radio or phone the location of game animals, so if you see a big buck moving in the direction of your buddy’s deer stand, and call him or send him a text, you...
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NSSF pledges to continue Sportsmen's Act work
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From National Shooting Sports Foundation
-- A procedural vote in the U.S. Senate delayed action on the Sportsmen's Act of 2012 (S.3525), but the Senate has pledged to continue working in a bipartisan fashion, along with a coalition of more than 4...
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Wisc. preliminary totals up 7.7%
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From Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- Wisconsin’s preliminary harvest totals are up 7.7 percent from 2011.
The tally showed hunters harvested 114, 822 bucks and 128,917 antlerless deer. This compared to 2011 preliminary harvest figur...
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The Perfect Combination
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Heavy frost covered the ground, and the leaves were frozen in roadside ditches. I left the Super Eight Motel, headed west through Nebraska City and pulled into the driveway at Jim Johnson’s farm. The sky was still starry.
I rode through the picke...
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Doe Harvesting: The Big Picture
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We always hear about removing bucks with bad genetics from the herd, then we see all these hunters on TV shooting big does. Don't the does play a big part in the big picture?
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