Do Your Homework |
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Monday, November 08, 2010 |
All the time and effort spent with the landowner has paid off; at last you’ve gained permission to bowhunt his property. But hunting season starts i...
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The Need for Speed |
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Tuesday, November 02, 2010 |
Fast computers. Speedy couriers. Express mail. Quickie lube jobs. Instant pudding. Seems whatever is fastest, we like it the “mostest.” America’s lo...
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Whitetails Find Food and Shelter in the Pines |
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010 |
For many years, members of our deer camp would depart for their stands in the predawn darkness with this promise: “See you in the pines at noon.”
T...
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Shooting the Moon |
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Monday, October 18, 2010 |
It was 4 p.m. — broad daylight — when I glanced out the window and saw five deer strolling up the back field. Seeing deer in the back yard isn’t all...
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To Shoot, or Not to Shoot |
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010 |
A 6-pointer jumped up from a clump of briers barely 5 yards from my feet. I was in the middle of a walk to push deer from their bedding areas to a c...
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God Smiled on Me Today |
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010 |
It was a hot, sunny November day in west Tennessee. The mosquitoes were biting and it was about 80 degrees. I had two hours before my 13-year-old da...
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Shoot More Does...or Else |
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Monday, September 27, 2010 |
There’s something about antlers we just can’t resist. Put a healthy doe and a pencil-horn spike in front of a guy with a .30-06 in his hands and the...
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Deer Hunting’s Biggest Misconceptions |
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Monday, September 20, 2010 |
The sun and the temperature were well up, so I decided to abandon my stand in favor of a stroll around the woodlot. Deer movement was nil. There was...
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Be a Doe Master |
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010 |
I heard them before I saw them - hasty footsteps rattling on the dry leaves like hail stones pinging off a tin roof. Three deer broke cover at 250 y...
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One Shot, One Kill |
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010 |
Over the four decades I’ve been hunting whitetails, I’ve cleanly killed perhaps a dozen fast-running deer, although none were more than 75 yards away....
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