Better Luck Next Year! |
By Timothy Nickless
-- This is not the typical hunting magazine story. But I'll bet it happens a lot more often than anyone would care to admit.
Bec...
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Beginner’s Blessing |
By Forrest Hurst
-- I had been an avid waterfowler and upland game hunter for years, but I didn’t have any experience hunting big game. At the ...
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A Lowdown Trick for Shut-Mouthed Toms |
By Shelly Brothers
-- I prefer bowhunting for deer, but love turkey hunting with a shotgun. Back in the Missouri’s 2006 spring turkey season,...
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A Battle to Remember |
By Jeff Miller
-- It was the last weekend of the rifle deer season in North Dakota. My son and I were at my mother’s home for Thanksgiving. We ...
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When a Plan Comes Together |
By Jake Landon
-- November 22, 2008, started off better than the day before.
I had missed several big bucks throughout that earlier day, so when I g...
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The 9-Point Buck That Wasn’t |
By Cliff Smallwood
-- In November 1997, while I was in Brady, Texas on business, I had the opportunity to run out to the hunting lease with Jeff Co...
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How Chocolate Milk Almost Cost Me a Buck |
By Richard West
-- After passing on the first eight does, I couldn’t help thinking how big and fat doe number nine looked. It was Nov. 21, 2008...
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An "Interesting" Hunt |
By Michael Baumer
-- When he heard a buck working over a sapling in the nearby fence row, Levi Baumer thought his hunt might get interesting. Then th...
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One Last Time to Finish What We Started |
By Brock A. Halbrook
-- My stepfather, Terry Oestmann, is the person who got me hooked on deer hunting when I was a kid. We hunted on great f...
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Backyard Bruiser |
By Luis T. Fernandez
-- I started hunting deer in 1966 and have hunted every year since then, excepting 1971-1973, when I was in the U.S. Army. Not h...
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Whitetail: The Other Deer Meat |
By Tyler Vickrey
-- November 14, 2008, is a date I will never forget. It was the morning of my first whitetail hunt in northeastern Washington state ...
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A Brother’s Bond |
By Charles Brande
-- It has taken me several years to put this story to words. My best friend Derek Miller and I have known each other since we were ...
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What Are the Odds? |
By William (Bill) Rumfelt
-- This is not a story about bringing home the big one or a hunting trip that was a great success. It's about an odd ...
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Maiden Hunt |
By Brenda Ryan
-- 2008 was my first year to go hunting. I accompanied my father during the early doe season in southern Iowa. Actually, that repres...
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The Legend of Skyscraper |
By Amanda Bybee
-- One of the favorite things my husband and I like to do is to drive around our farm on a four-wheeler and look for deer in the even...
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