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Entries for January 2008
Preliminary Report Reveals Good Deer Season for Vermont | From Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department
-- Vermont deer hunters had a very good season according to preliminary numbers recently released by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department.
"Last year's favorable winter conditions and recent...
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Land Donated for new Minnesota WMA | From Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
-- Nearly 200 acres of prime wildlife habitat about half an hour from Minneapolis will be preserved as public open space thanks to the legacy of a Twin Cities leader who died more than three yea...
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Winter Nutrition | Text & Photos by Tommy Kirkland
-- The post-rut is over. Impregnated females are searching for the best nutrition amid winter's dormancy, while bucks, having lost body weight and energy, are also replenishing themselves. This is a critical time ...
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Surplus Minnesota Turkey Licenses on Sale March 17 | From Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
-- Hunters who applied for a spring wild turkey hunting license but were not selected in the recent lottery are eligible to purchase a surplus license on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 5 ...
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One Shot Wonder | By Steve Shelton
-- During the opening day of Indiana's 2004 gun season, my dad, Gary, and I started our hunt on a cold crisp foggy morning. I placed my dad in a spot overlooking a draw with lots of cover. I was hunting out of a ladderstand across t...
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Velvet Bow Buck | By Travis Eastman
-- I was hunting during North Dakota's 2007 archery season. I got to my treestand about 3:45 p.m., and I sat with anticipation waiting for a deer to come. Time passed and nothing showed up except some blue jays and a little red squ...
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Kansas Spring Turkey Permits Available Online | From Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- The 2008 spring turkey season runs April 9-May 31, and hunters across the state are already making preparations. Turkey permits allow hunters to use either a shotgun or a bow, and this year, the archer...
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Ghillie Suit Adventure | By Marianne Hoosier
-- As I struggled to get into my new ghillie suit, it became apparent that this one was made for someone at least twice my size. This was okay because surely the struggle would be worth the effort. I had planned on adding this su...
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Kansas Schedules CWD Meeting | From Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks officials will conduct a public meeting in Oberlin Feb. 6 to provide information and answer questions regarding the recent occurrence of chronic wasting disease ...
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South Carolina Youth Waterfowl Days Scheduled for Feb. 2-3 | From South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Young waterfowl hunters across the state will enjoy special days in the field Saturday, Feb. 2 and Sunday, Feb. 3 by participating in Youth Waterfowl Days on private lands, public waters normally o...
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Florida Buck was Really Doe in Disguise | From Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
-- Thirteen-year-old C.J. Nowling, of Jay, Fla., took his first buck Jan. 3, while hunting with his grandfather in Santa Rosa County - or did he?
Photo: Photo courtesy of Florida Fish and Wil...
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Smokepole Buck | By Josh Reed
-- The day I took my first buck is not what I would consider an ideal hunting day. It was the last day of Ohio's muzzleloader season, and all I wanted to do was be in the woods. So I tried to get my dad to go with me like he said he wou...
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The Slug Gun Ricochet Factor | By Randy D. Smith
-- What does a recent study really mean to a slug gun deer hunter?
An estimated 3 million United States deer hunters use shotguns. To my mind, there have always been three reasons for choosing a slug gun rather than a rifle fo...
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A Bird in Hand - Makes a Father Proud | By Darren Schumacher
-- My 11-year-old son, Alex, had been talking about turkey hunting for several years. He would buy calls, watch videos, and read websites on turkey hunting, and then ask when he could try his luck on a Michigan tom.
Unfortunat...
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Coal Bucket Dream Buck | By Carl Harmon
-- Growing up in the Allegheny Mountains of Maryland, hunting was a way of life and survival. My passion was hunting white-tailed deer. As a young man, I was drafted into the army. Deer season was just about to come in, and though I h...
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South Dakota Approves Special Buck Licenses | From South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission
-- While the last of South Dakota's deer hunting seasons are winding down, work has already started on finalizing the 2008 seasons.
At its January meeting in Fort Pierre, the Game, Fish and Parks C...
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Arkansas Thriller | By Keith Moore
-- The rut was in full swing during the Arkansas rifle season, and I had seen several does acting very agitated at the end of a firebreak that I was hunting.
I was watching them through my scope and noticed a set of antlers mo...
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The Luck of the Draw | By Keegan Fielder
-- Back in 2001, I was 17 and just getting passionate about hunting. I was also growing quite a bit, so I decided I should probably upgrade from a 20 gauge to a 12 gauge. As I was browsing through our town's local pawn shop for a n...
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Hunters Face Tough Weather During Life Hunt | By Buckmasters Online
-- Hunters woke to cold, rainy conditions on the final day of the 2008 Buckmasters Classic Life Hunt held at Sedgefields Plantation. While the bone-chilling cold was unwelcome, the smiles on the faces of the participants didn't...
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2008 Life Hunt Yields Big Bucks, Lasting Memories | By Buckmasters Online
-- A total of eight deer were harvested during the second day of the 2008 Buckmasters Classic Life Hunt at Sedgefields Plantation in Dallas County, Ala.
Photo: Justin Blackman of Dunn, N.C., is all smiles after he harvested ...
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2008 Buckmasters Classic Life Hunt Underway | By Buckmasters Online
-- Deer hunters from throughout the United States headed afield Monday afternoon for the start of the 2008 Buckmasters Classic Life Hunt at Sedgefields Plantation in Dallas County, Ala.
Photo: Ely Clark of Cleveland, Miss., ...
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Hunting the Post-Rut | Text and Photos By Tommy Kirkland
-- The rut is winding down. Exhausted bucks are finally browsing the food plots and timber's edge for longer periods. Does are regrouping after the madness; and although the majority of females have been bred, the ...
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Trophy Class Isn't Always World Class | By Braden Arp
-- What is the true measure of a trophy whitetail? This is a question I have asked myself for years. Is it measured by a scoring system? Could it be the dominant nature of the animal that was harvested? I believe, as do many others, th...
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Pennsylvania Posts Agenda for January Meeting on Website | From Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- The agenda for the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners meeting, which is slated for Jan. 27-29, is posted on the agency's website (www.pgc.state.pa.us), and can be viewed by clicking the "Next Commissio...
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The Briar Patch Bruiser | By Kyle Schwabenbauer
-- On Oct. 27, 2007, I headed to northwest Pennsylvania for my last archery hunt of the season. Although the season didn't end until mid-November, I had plans to leave for Colorado for an elk hunt the first week of the month, s...
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2008-09 Hunting Regulations Proposed to Ohio Wildlife Council | From Ohio Department of Natural Resouces
-- Ohio sportsmen will notice a few changes in next year's hunting and trapping regulations, based on proposals presented Jan. 9 to the Ohio Wildlife Council by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR)...
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West Virginia Hunters Harvest 145,577 Deer in 2007 | From West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- Preliminary counts of game checking tags indicate West Virginia hunters harvested a total of 145,577 white-tailed deer during the recently completed bucks-only, antlerless, muzzleloader, bow and yo...
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Louisiana Turkey Lottery Application Deadline Approching | From Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
-- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries 2008 turkey lottery application deadline for both the youth and regular lottery turkey hunts is Feb. 8.
The youth and regular turkey lottery a...
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A Daughter's First Deer | By Mark Kimmel
-- It was Oct. 15, 2005, and my daughter, Alex, and I were on the road for her first real deer hunt. Alex had accompanied me before on several hunts and had been by my side when I had harvested a couple of deer. She began shooting whe...
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Never Give Up | By Allen Keith
-- It was February 2005, and my father asked me what I wanted for Christmas. With the holidays still 10 months away, I knew he had something different up his sleeve this year. You see, at 34, Christmas gifts from Dad had long since be...
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The Briar Patch Bruiser | By Kyle Schwabenbauer
-- On Oct. 27, 2007, I headed to northwest Pennsylvania for my last archery hunt of the season. Although the season didn't end until mid-November, I had plans to leave for Colorado for an elk hunt the first week of the month, s...
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Tennessee's Deer Season to Close After Youth Hunt Jan. 12-13 | From Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
-- Tennessee's 2007-08 deer hunting seasons will end in all Units with the Young Sportsman Deer Hunt that will be held on January 12-13, 2008, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA).&nbs...
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Nonresident Any-Deer Bow Licenses Issued March 1 | From North Dakota Game and Fish Department
-- The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will have 1,252 any-deer bow licenses available to nonresidents in 2008.
The number of nonresident any-deer bow licenses available is 15 percent of the previous...
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Nebraska Spring Turkey Permits on Sale Jan. 14 | From Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- A growing turkey population awaits sportsmen as permits for the 2008 spring turkey season go on sale at 1 p.m. CST on Jan. 14, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
The 2007 rural mail carr...
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Forty-eight Deer Taken During Ongoing Hunt in TB Zone | From Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
-- Hunters harvested 48 deer during the first weekend of a special hunt in northwestern Minnesota that aims to reduce deer density and stop the potential spread of bovine tuberculosis (TB), according to...
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First Encounter With Buck Fever | By Jon Bryan
-- At the opening of hunting season each year, the Georgia Game and Fish Department hosts a special deer hunt for kids between the ages of 12 and 14 on Sappelo Island, which lies several miles off of the Georgia coast between Savannah a...
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Sights for Sore Eyes | By Tracy Breen
-- Over the years, peep sights have become standard equipment on nearly every bow. Using a peep sight increases accuracy and consistency shot after shot, which is why professional archers use them. Most professional archers use sights...
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Part 3: The Art & Science of Rattling White-tailed Deer | By Russell Thornberry
-- Now that you understand how to handle the antlers and the various rattling sequence, I want to deal with a vital aspect of successful antler rattling. Utilizing one or more hunting partners while rattling ups the odds of suc...
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