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So You Want to Join a Hunt Club?
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The approval of your application for the Hit ‘n’ Miss Buck Club arrived today, and you can’t wait to write a check for the deposit on a year’s membership.
Hold on a minute. Pour a cup of coffee and ask yourself a few questions.
First off, what do...
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Where'd My Dominant Buck Go?
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I have been using trail cameras to help me keep track of a big buck I missed the last day of hunting season last year. No luck finding him so far.
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ND bighorn sheep numbers increase
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From North Dakota Fish and Game Department
-- While many of North Dakota’s western big game populations remain at low population levels, bighorn sheep numbers are strong, according to Brett Wiedmann, big game biologist.
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CSI training in the West Virginia Mountains Sept. 16-20
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From West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- Investigating a hunting-related shooting incident can be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack—which is why 40 wildlife officers from 16 states will participate in a 40-hour specialized...
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Chipmunks - cute, but...pesky
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You are sitting on your porch enjoying an early fall sunset, or maybe an early morning sunrise, when the silence is interrupted by a rather sharp “chuck-chuck-chuck” sound coming from the shrubbery.
Not seeing anything and unsure of what it is, yo...
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The Freak!
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-- There isn't a time I can remember hunting not being a part of my life - a big part.
I've been fortunate to have grown up hunting with my dad, and everything I know about the outdoors I've learned from him. He taught me how to scout with trail c...
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The Ideal Hunting Bullet?
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The heat had passed with the sun, which helped, but as daylight slipped away, so, too, did my hopes for the animal I wanted the most - the one I'd traveled 8,000 miles to hunt. In a few minutes, it would be too dark to follow the tracks, and it wo...
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Spur-of-the-Moment Hunt Kit
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I love my job as the driver of the number 56 NAPA Toyota race car. The adrenaline rush of speeding around the track at 200 mph feels almost like drawing my bow on a big buck.
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Black Hawg Down
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Bouncing through the cattle pasture in a pickup, we were still within sight of the main dirt road when we spotted our first whitetail of the morning. That sighting was followed quickly by turkeys, plenty of doves, more whitetails and even an allig...
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Back-Forty Giant
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I started hunting deer in 1963, and I've had a Nebraska permit every year since, except for the four years I served in the Air Force. Even then, the two years I was stationed in Cheyenne, Wyo., I was able to hunt elk, deer and antelope.
The deer ...
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Reading Body Language
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Communication among white-tailed deer always has intrigued hunters. North American Indians used crude calls to bring deer close, but only in the past 20 years or so has deer calling caught on among modern day hunters.
However, most forms of white...
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Will They Show Up Again?
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Bob, I have about 200 acres in Eastern Kentucky. It has several food plots and mineral stations that are great places to set out trail cameras and record deer activity.
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Alabama Waters Yield 14-foot Gator
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By David Rainer -- Jamie Calvert of Selma admits he is not a very good judge of size when it comes to alligators in the Alabama River. In fact, he and his hunting mates – Blake Jones, Fielding Watts and Wil Tipton – had no idea that they had hooke...
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U.S. Experiencing Worst West Nile Virus Outbreak Ever
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-- It's the beginning of September and the recent West Nile virus outbreak is the largest ever seen in the United States.
As of the end of August, 66 people have died, 1,590 cases have been reported and 43 states have reported at least one person i...
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Back from the Brink
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I found the perfect spot to set up my blind and watch for a big buck.
A funnel of trees between two large wetlands created a pinch point that deer had to use when going from bedding to feeding areas. It wasn’t difficult to see they were using the ...
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The Trophy Photo
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The time between the instant you spot a buck until you squeeze the trigger is often just a few seconds. The impact of that blip in time is everlasting.
You relive it over and over in your thoughts and when spinning yarns to your buddies and famil...
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Initial test for Kansas deer with CWD was false-positive
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From Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
-- During July Kansas reported nine deer had tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the 2011-12 testing period. The agency now reports two different tests did not detect CWD prio...
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Morning Glory
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It was a cold Alabama morning, and being in the woods felt like a group of bullies was staring me down before handing out the beating of a lifetime. In other words, it was a feeling a hunter never forgets.
I could almost feel the beady eyes of...
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