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Entries for October 2010
Watch Out for the Golden Moose!
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-- Voting has begun for Outdoor Channel’s annual Golden Moose Awards — the network’s way of recognizing the best hunting and fishing shows.
Outdoor Channel is encouraging viewers to visit its website to cast votes for their favorite shows, and so is...
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Hunting is a $4.6 billion business in Texas
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From the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
-- How does a $4.6 billion Texas-based industry go unnoticed?
It's easy when you consider most of its participants go about their business cloaked in camouflage.
Despite not appearing on the stock marke...
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West Virginia offers First Deer Certificates online
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From the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- To commemorate a West Virginia hunter's accomplishment in harvesting his or her first deer, the Division of Natural Resources has created an online First Deer Certificate to remember the occasi...
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Number of U.S. hunters greater than expected
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From the National Shooting Sports Foundation
-- A new study funded by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) and carried out by Southwick Associates has found that the pool of American hunters is much larger than previously thought.
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Missouri needs hunter help for CWD surveillance Nov. 13-14
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From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Missouri is asking hunters who harvest deer in six north central counties during opening weekend of firearms deer season to submit samples for CWD testing as part of ongoing efforts to monitor Missouri...
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Oklahoma's deer gun season opens Nov. 20
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From the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
--The deer gun season opener--one of the biggest days of the year for Oklahoma hunters--is fast approaching. The season runs Nov. 20 through Dec. 5.
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A Father and Son Achievement
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-- For years, I have hunted by myself. I’ve always dreamed about sharing my time in the woods with my father, but due to his busy schedule and his selfless acts of helping everyone else, he just didn’t have the time. He’d bowhunted for many years, bu...
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Florida plans 10 weekend hunts for Edwards Small Game Area
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From the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
-- Florida hunters who like to pursue gray squirrels, other small game or wild hogs can try the L. Kirk Edwards Small Game Area in Leon County, which opened for 10 weekend hunts Oct. 23....
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Offsetting factors may hold Missouri deer harvest steady
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From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Acorn availability, crop harvest, the four-point rule and population shifts caused by last year's harvest and hemorrhagic disease will affect the final tally from the November firearms deer hunt.
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NH regular firearms deer season starts Nov. 10
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From the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
-- Opening day for New Hampshire's regular firearms deer season is Nov.10, a date anticipated by the state's estimated 60,000 deer hunters.
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Don't hunt near Union Pacific railroad tracks
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From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- Union Pacific Railroad is urging hunters to resist the temptation to hunt on railroad property this season. It is not only dangerous, it is against the law - a trespassing violation because railroa...
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Woodlawn Elementary wins the NASP World Tournament
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Georgia is home to a world champion elementary school archery team after this month's National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) World Tournament.
Woodlawn Elementary is the first Georgia school to compete on the World Competition level, whic...
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Warm Weather Deer Care
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Many archery seasons have begun across the country, and the way the weather has been the past few years, warm temperatures can carry on well into the gun seasons. Proper care of your harvested deer is essential.
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Long-Range Muzzleloading
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It is an association that has been cast in stone for decades: muzzleloaders equal short range.
The fact that history records 500-, 800- and 1,000-yard muzzleloader matches as far back as the 1700s in England, France, Germany and the colonial Unite...
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