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A Moment of Awesomeness
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-- Growing up in eastern Kentucky, your life usually revolves around two things: high school sports and hunting.
I've played baseball ever since I can remember, and besides baseball, the only other thing I usually do is sleep. This comes from my da...
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Stacy's Sweetheart of Story
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Stacy Harris loves chocolate. So much so that a box of chocolate covered Alaskan berries helped solidify her choice for a future husband.
Stacy's then-boyfriend, Scott, bought a box of her favorite treats at the beginning of his caribou hunt on Alas...
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Ranch Rifle Redux
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The ideal coyote rifle? How about an accurate, easy-carrying carbine that shoulders quickly? Song dogs don’t always give you a standing shot, so a rifle that delivers fast follow-up shots would be great.
When Ruger’s Mini-14 came along, I thought ...
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Kentucky's Golden Triangle Yields Another Nugget
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Owen County, Ky., and the surrounding area have earned a solid reputation as a meat hunter's Mecca. The vicinity often referred to as the "Golden Triangle" consistently places at or near the top in the state for numbers of deer taken each fall.
F...
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Stop That Deer!
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How many times have you watched a hunting show and have seen this scenario? A deer approaches a hunter, usually a bowhunter, and the shot is made as soon as the deer is in range, yet it is still walking.
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Opening the Bedroom Door
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I knew I was on to something good as I followed last year’s rub line. Although it was still late summer, the large tracks indicated that a buck had survived and continued using the route between its ridgetop bedding spot and feeding areas in the v...
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Long Distance Swimming Deer?
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Besides loss of habitat or pressure, is swimming a normal occurrence for deer, especially such great distances and out of their home range?
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Youth hunt starts with a squirrel, ends with fun
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The eye contact with the frantic gray squirrel seemed frozen in time. The squirrel had been knocked from his perch in a scaly bark hickory by one of the youths participating in the 16th annual Barbour County WMA Youth Hunt in Alabama.
The bushy-t...
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Back in the Saddle
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-- When I look back a couple of years to the day I first saw this buck, I remember being immediately entranced by its size. My memories are still so vivid. The sun was shining brightly; it was a cool and crisp morning, and I spotted the buck walkin...
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Too Close, But Comfortable
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Of all the whitetail's keen senses, the hardest to fool is its nose. Most archers get off the ground to increase their odds of success, but not Canton, Ill., bowhunter Ed Kruzan.
"I hunted out of stands for years, but once I started hunting from ...
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Cold Weather Bow Practice
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If you're a late season bowhunter, you likely haven't target practiced while wearing your bulky hunting clothes. I highly recommend you practice shooting your bow with all the layers and warm clothes you'll be wearing in an actual cold weather hunti...
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Bad Glue, Good Glue
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J.D. McKinney can thank his dad, a belligerent squirrel and some bad glue for his first deer by bow.
He was but a green-gilled teenager when the state-record buck picked its way down the laurel-studded hillside back in November 1994.
Although ther...
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Spikes: To Shoot, Or Not To Shoot?
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Bob, I hunt in Bibb County, Alabama and have read several research studies on the subject of shooting spikes. Many biologists have differing viewpoints, but what are your personal thoughts on shooting spikes?
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Bear Camp's Magic Moments
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Recently, while cleaning out my hunting closet, I found my journal from a black bear camp. It's dated May 1997. The memories of Saskatchewan came flooding back when I opened the first page.
I'd forgotten how much fun this hunting trip was, my firs...
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Record harvest in 2012-13 for Kentucky deer hunters
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From Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
-- Kentucky deer hunters posted a record harvest for the 2012-13 deer season, which ended Jan. 21. Hunters took 131,388 whitetails, 56 percent bucks, 44 percent does. Firearms hunters report...
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It's About Time!
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-- I am 11 years old and I've been hunting with my dad and grandpa since I was about three years of age. Last year, for my birthday, I got a .243 rifle. The next day my dad talked with some friends of his who agreed to let us hunt on their property...
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King of the Timber Cartridges
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Long ago in the smoke of a wilderness campfire, the fable of the brush bucking cartridge arose. The myth is not hard to debunk. Place a target behind a healthy bush in your favorite whitetail thicket, and blast away. Even bullets fired from a .458...
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