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Entries for May 2008
CWD not Found in Pennsylvania Hunter-Harvested Deer Samples
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From Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was not detected in samples taken from hunter-harvested deer during the state's 2007 hunting season, according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinaria...
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Arkansas 2008-09 Deer Permit Application Process Begins Soon
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From Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
-- Permit applications will be available for zone and WMA doe quota, youth, archery, modern gun and muzzleloader deer hunts on several AGFC wildlife management areas and deer zones throughout the state.
Applic...
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Texas LAMPS Antlerless Deer Permit Applications Available
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From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
-- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is now accepting applications for Landowner Assisted Management Permitting System (LAMPS) antlerless deer permits for the 2008-2009 hunting season.
The LAMPS program w...
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Tennessee Wildlife Commission Sets Coming Hunt Seasons
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From Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
-- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission has finalized the 2008-09 state hunting seasons. The action was taken at the TWRC's regularly scheduled meeting May 21-22 at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Age...
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Dos and Don'ts of Doe Management
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By Tracy Breen
-- Harvesting does is a topic that all hunters seem to have an opinion about. If a hunter brought a doe back to camp when I was a kid, he would be ridiculed and sent to his tent without supper. Everyone believed that harvesting does q...
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Traditional Lever Actions for Whitetails
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By Randy D. Smith
-- I've hunted white-tailed deer for over 30 years, and I have no idea how many I've harvested. I consider a lever-action .30-30 carbine to be the perfect deer hunting tool. The .30-30 cartridge delivers a lot of moderate-ran...
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Idaho Fish and Game Adopts Wolf Hunting Rules
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From Idaho Fish and Game
-- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission Thursday, May 22, adopted the first regulated hunting season on gray wolves in the state's history.
The commission, during its May meeting, set a wolf population goal of 518 wolves, and...
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Passing on a Family Tradition
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By Robin Cochran
-- I would like to tell you a story of the person I consider to be the world's greatest dad, grandpa and hunter. Bill Vetter Sr. began hunting when he was 25 years old. It all started when he joined the Charlestown Archery Club. He ...
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Free Website Service Connects Hunters
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From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
-- Research surveys show that finding a place to hunt is a barrier for many people in today's Texas, which is why Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has created the Hunt Texas Online Connection, a free websi...
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Snake Mystique
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By Steven E. Stillwell
-- Since the beginning of recorded time, snakes have been labeled with bad reputations. Some of these ridiculous misconceptions stem from superstitions, others from religious dogmas, but the majority of these opinions are form...
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Trials and Tribulations of a Texas Cull Buck
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By Adam Corley
-- It was the first weekend of January 2007, and I was down to my last hunt, my last morning, my last hour of what was for me a difficult deer season. As I sat in my box blind that cool South Texas morning, I was beginning to face the...
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Kansas Pronghorn, Antelope Applications Available
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From Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- Applications for permits to hunt antelope in 2008 have been mailed to last year's applicants. For those who did not apply last year, printed applications are available at offices of the Kansas Departme...
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My Friend 'The Big Red Monster'
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By Everett Krause
-- What a bowhunting vacation I had been having in Ohio. I had taken 12 days off work to hunt the rut, which starts in early November. The early season up to this point had been great with lots of sightings, and I had passed on qui...
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Tennessee to Host Annual Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Workshop
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From Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
-- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) will host its Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) workshop June 20-22 in Crossville at the Clyde M. York 4-H Center.
The relaxed atmosphere of the BOW workshop...
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Black Hog Down
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By Roark Russell
-- ENTERPRISE, Ala. -- Misty Morning, aka "The Buckmistress," star of stage, screen, Internet and deer stands, dropped by EA Outfitters "Swine so fine" wild hog hunting operation near Enterprise, Ala. Misty was t...
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Texas Offers Small Acreage Land Management Workshop June 7
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From Texas Parks and Wildlife
-- For more than a century, rural Texas land has been owned mainly by farm and ranch families who lived there. In recent decades, the countryside has been fragmented into smaller tracts owned increasingly by former urba...
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New York Offers Outdoorsmen Website Access to WMA Maps
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From New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
-- New natural resource maps and other environmental information are part of a recent expansion of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) website, Commissioner...
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Welcome to Mayberry
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By Leon DeLoof
-- Last year during the third weekend of Michigan's bow season, my buddy and I were walking to our makeshift ground blind when two does and a nice 6-point buck jumped not even 40 yards from us. We trailed the does in hopes we would se...
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