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New Food Plots
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Bob, I found an approximately half-acre clearing where I want to create a food plot. I live in Tennessee, so the summers are very dry and hot. When and what should I plant to get those big bucks coming to my plot? Also, what is the best food for deer...
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The Best Aunt Ever
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-- I had left school early to get to my hunting spot at the right time. I traveled to a field on our family farm in Carroll County, Ohio, and put a hang-on stand in an old tree where my Great Aunt Kay used to hunt. She passed on a few years ago, bu...
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The Truth About Long-Range Shooting
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Ever since humans first threw a stone to kill a bird, we’ve been searching for tools that can extend that range: slingshots, muzzleloaders, centerfires, rangefinders.
To facilitate extreme-range sniping, today’s hunter can use VLD bullets, multi-...
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Parting Gift
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Gene Figge had no way of knowing that the 2004 season would be his last to hunt the Jersey County, Ill., farm his family had enjoyed for nearly three decades. About a month after deer season ended, the landowner died, and the property was sold.
T...
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Relocate Lost Turkey Calls
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Have you ever sat down to call a turkey and somehow managed to get up, move and forget you left one of your prized box calls or slates still sitting on the ground?
In the heat of the moment, it's easy to lose a call, especially strikers, if you do...
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Persistent Archer Goes Public
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Scott Fowler could hardly believe his eyes. An 11-point buck was slowly making its way to the edge of the woods across the Missouri soybean field. A mature animal, it took a few minutes to check out the deer that were already feeding and sort out ...
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Chewing Tobacco
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I'm a tobacco chewer, and three times this season I witnessed a buck stop and stick his nose right into a spot where I'd dumped a spit cup.
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Best Moment, Hands Down!
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-- When I was in elementary school, I randomly came across a deer hunting computer game. Believe it or not, that's where my desire to go deer hunting started.
I quickly became extremely interested, and when I was in 5th grade I got my first hunti...
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A Different Kind of Boresighter
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Wheeler Engineering, which is part of the Battenfeld Technologies family of companies, has come up with a boresighter that works on a totally different principle. The purpose of all such devices is to enable one to adjust a newly mounted scope to ...
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Cloth Bow Case Carrier
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If you've ever walked to your stand on a cold morning while wearing a coat, you're fully aware of how much you can sweat. This happens even when temperatures are well below freezing.
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You Don't Wanna Go in There
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When Davis Smith of White Hall, Ark., lost his deer lease to a group of guys with deeper pockets a few years ago, he felt like a fish out of water. He tried swimming with several small hunting clubs after that, but he never found one he really lik...
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Like a Buck on a String
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Russ Nobbe’s mind was working a mile a minute. It was 9:55 a.m. on Nov. 17, 2005. The archer, 22 feet high in a treestand above the forest floor of a heavily timbered tract in east central Illinois’ Monroe County, was busily assessing nearby trees...
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Take time to check for ticks!
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As the weather warms and families spend more time outdoors, don’t forget to check for ticks.
All tick bites should be taken seriously because ticks are the leading carriers of diseases to humans in the United States, second only to mosquitoes worl...
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All Busted Up
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Bob, we have a lease in Alabama, and over the years we've noticed virtually all our racked bucks seem to have broken tines. I realize that during the rut bucks are pursuing does and might have occasional fight, but it would seem that every now and...
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Honeymoon in Camo!
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-- My wife Sunny and I got married last October. Before our marriage, she had no experience with hunting whatsoever.
Since I'd grown up in an outdoors family and hunting is a huge part of our lives, I wanted to take my new bride to shoot my .22-25...
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Gun Barrels: The Long & Short of It
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There are times when a long barrel on a rifle can be a real plus. At other times, it can be anything from a minor inconvenience to a genuine liability. As for short barrels, they exact a toll in terms of velocity, steadiness of hold and tracking, ...
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Participation up 8 percent in venison donation program
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From Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- More Wisconsin hunters and meat processors donated venison and volunteered time to provide venison to people in need in 2012. Participation in the program was up 8 percent over 2011, likely a re...
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Nobody Said it Would be Easy
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I got into the deer hunting game late. Until a friend offered to teach me the ropes in exchange for sharing the hunting rights on another buddy's Clark County, Ohio, farm, I'd always been content to hunt small game.
Lynn's property had been my ra...
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Treestand Maintenance Tips
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If you're like most hunters, the reality is beginning to set in that deer season has ended until fall. The good news is you now have months to tweak last year's stand sights and strategize for the upcoming season. Millennium encourages you to put ...
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NY 2012 deer harvest up 6 percent
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From New York Dept. of Environmental Conservation
-- Hunters took approximately 243,000 deer during the 2012-13 hunting seasons, an increase of 6 percent over the previous year. There were 124,000 antlerless deer and 119,000 adult buck...
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