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Entries for November 2007
A Decade Down and Two Deer Up
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By Chris Harris
-- Until last year, I had taken a 10-year sabbatical from hunting. But then after the wife had half a dozen encounters with deer in one year on her 5-mile drive to the interstate, I decided that I needed to take up hunting again - i...
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Ohio's Guernsey County Leads State Deer Harvest on Opening Day
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From Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- Steady rains dampened the efforts of Ohio hunters on opening day of the 2007 deer-gun season. Hunters took 19,391 white-tailed deer on Monday, Nov. 26, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resource...
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Nebraska Posts Record Firearm Deer Harvest
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From Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- Hunters harvested a record number of deer in Nebraska during the November firearm season, according to a preliminary report by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. With all but one check station reporti...
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Every Point Counts
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By Carl Redding
-- It was an ice cold morning during the start of southwestern Pennsylvania's rut. I was going to be hunting with a buddy of mine on a small piece of private property near the West Virginia border. The air was frosty cold with the te...
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Every Day is Thanksgiving
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By Doug Zeiters
-- I've enjoyed deer hunting for many years, so after a frustrating 2006 season of no bucks, a friend asked me to try turkey hunting with him. My friend, Ben Miller, is Amish and enjoys hunting, fishing, and the outdoors as much as I...
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Buckmasters' Budgetmasters (Hot Gear For A Cool Christmas)
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By Jeff Murray
-- Hunters looking for cool gifts to give (or receive) often fall prey to last-minute decisions and trite point-of-purchase displays. Do everyone a favor and look for this year's hottest gear ahead of time. For the budget-minded, he...
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The Whitetail's Scrape
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Text & Photos by Tommy Kirkland
-- As the hunting season begins, communication among whitetails increases through activity known as scraping. This natural function is vital for whitetails to set the stage for successful breeding. Although there ...
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Part 2: The Art & Science of Rattling White-tailed Deer
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By Russell Thornberry
-- How to Rattle Antlers
There are numerous considerations that enter into antler rattling, such as location, position, wind, etc. There are certain limitations when rattling from a treestand as opposed to rattling from a grou...
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Trespasser Scouts Missouri Monster
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By Randall Bowling
-- The hunt took place in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. I received permission to hunt on a friend's property that sits next to the Osage River and has open fields and wooded areas. Nobody was allowed to hunt this land, and the owner had...
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Soldier's First Season
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By Douglas J. Saffell
-- Here I was at the young age of 36 and getting ready for the deer season to open. I was all ready to go and the night was closing in. I went to bed around 8 p.m. and awoke early the next morning to head out to the area my pos...
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Friday the 13th is my Lucky Day
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By Steve Kidwell
-- While bowhunting in Central Ohio one fall morning, I didn't know this day would be one of my best whitetail hunts ever. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1990, I sat on my stand watching a big buck chasing does from daylight until 11 a.m. F...
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West Virginia Warns of Errors in 2007-08 Regulations Booklet
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From West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- The Division of Natural Resources strives to provide hunters and trappers with an accurate, well-designed and informative regulations brochure each year. However, given the complexity and number of...
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Ohio Posts Record Bow Harvest Figure
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From Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- For the fourth straight year, Ohio bow hunters set a record harvest during the first six weeks of the state's deer-archery season, taking 53,982 whitetails. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Res...
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New York DEC Confirms Additional Cases of EHD
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From New York Department of Environmental Conservation
-- Recent tests for Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in several additional Albany, Rensselaer and Niagara County deer have come back positive, according to the New York State Department of E...
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Roll On!
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By Harry Fristoe
-- Last deer season was about as good as anyone could ever dream about. I took a nice doe during opening morning of muzzleloader season, and I took an 8-point buck on the opening day of the Texas rifle season. The following weekend ...
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A Shot in the Dark
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By Gregg Fuller
-- I was deer hunting in late December 2006 near the central Texas town of Comanche about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth. I had already taken my allotted trophy buck, and was now working on my cull buck tag. We hadn't seen very ma...
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