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Entries for May 2012
Fall, spring turkey applications now available
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From Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- New this year, applications for the 2012 fall and 2013 spring Wisconsin turkey hunting season are now available and can be purchased at any location that sells DNR licenses or through the DNR Onli...
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Deadline extended for adult learn to hunt deer program
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From Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- The deadline to participate in Wisconsin’s Sandhill Learn-to-Hunt program has been extended by one month from May 31 to June 30. People interested in participating must complete the Sandhill Learn...
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I Forgive You, Poppy!
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My father and I had not been on good speaking terms since I discovered he'd been taking my 5-year-old son, Will, hunting without my knowledge and against my orders.
I should have figured it out when Poppy, my dad, had hinted about taking Wil...
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Third Time's the Charm
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I crawled out from behind the willows and focused on the edge of the field. The bear was feeding peacefully, oblivious to our presence. I opened the legs of my Harris bipod and settled in behind the rifle.
"How far?" I asked.
"181 yards," Dawn wh...
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Deer Drop Off Tactic
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One of the advantages hunters have in areas frequented by vehicles and farming equipment is that deer are often completely unafraid of machinery. They are used to seeing and hearing equipment go by, so watching a truck, tractor or ATV ramble past ...
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WI plans public meeting on wolf hunting, trapping season rule
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From Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- The public will have the opportunity at four meetings to provide input on the draft concepts to be included in a wolf hunting and trapping season rule that will be going to the state Natural Resou...
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From Hangdog to Cloud-Niner
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On the eve of Indiana's 2007 shotgun season, Steve Padgett learned that his son, Steven, couldn't make it home from college. Father and son had not missed an opening day since junior was old enough to carry a gun.
"I was really bummed," Steve sai...
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Fliers
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Every bowhunter has had a mystery arrow that, for no apparent reason, just wouldn’t fly right. Most of us give up and set that arrow aside, which is the right thing to do with an arrow that simply won’t cooperate. But that’s setting aside time and...
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A decade of seized antlers up for bid in online auction
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From Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
-- Nearly a thousand antlers seized from poachers over the last decade by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife police officers can be purchased during an online auction currently under way th...
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Utah board reduces buck deer permits slightly
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From Utah Division of Wildlife Resource
-- The Utah Wildlife Board has approved 86,500 general buck deer permits for hunts in Utah's 30 new deer hunting units this fall. That's 500 fewer than the 87,000 permits approved in 2011, divided as Arch...
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Indiana Jones? Nope, Indiana bat!
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Before last month, the last time an Indiana bat had been seen in Georgia, Lyndon Baines Johnson was president.
That footnote changed April 14 when private consultants tracked one of the federally endangered bats from a Tennessee cave to a pine sna...
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Testing a Scope
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You can judge a scope by its looks, cost and reputation, but how do you test it for function? You really don't know how it will perform until you mount it atop a rifle and spend quality time in the mud and the blood and the rain.
Or maybe not.
T...
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