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Entries for October 2009
Dinging and Coughing Fool 20-pointer | By Josh Spencer
-- On Friday, Nov. 14, 2008, I woke up at 5 a.m. and went outside to see what the weather was like in Mt. Sterling, Ky. It was cold, there was only a slight breeze, and it was pitch black. Conditions couldn’t have been more p...
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Arkansas hunter news round up | From the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
-- Bowhunters must wear orange during gun seasons.
Sure, hunters can hunt deer with archery equipment, including crossbows, or black powder weapons during the modern gun season, but they must follow hunt...
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Redemption Wore Eight Points | By Bill LeConey
-- Hunting state woods in southern New Jersey isn’t the “ideal” hunting conditions. The whitetails receive a lot of pressure. There aren’t vast corn and soybean fields for them to eat. And without antler restrictions, many young de...
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Bemidji State Game Refuge closed to 2009 firearms deer season | From the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
-- Deer hunting in the Bemidji State Game Refuge, a 74-square-mile refuge that surrounds the city of Bemidji, will be closed to the 2009 regular firearms deer season. The refuge is open only to arc...
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Driving in the Thick Stuff | By Caleb Lyon
-- During the late muzzleloader season in central Iowa, Pete Lyon took this 141 5/8-inch 11-point buck on a deer drive. We were pushing a small section of timber towards Rob, a stander, when I jumped the buck and a couple of does. The ...
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474 deer taken in early Ohio muzzleloader season | From the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- Muzzleloader hunters took 474 deer during last week’s early muzzleloader deer hunt according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
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Hunters previously denied may receive Deer Management Permits | From the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
-- Approximately 21,000 Deer Management Permits (DMPs) will be issued to hunters who were previously denied permits earlier this year during the initial DMP application period that en...
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Deer hunting workshop in Lincoln on Nov. 10 | From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- A free deer hunting workshop is scheduled for Nov. 10 in Lincoln, and the event is for hunters of all ages and experience levels.
Deer Hunting 201 – a Deer Hunting Primer, will include discussion on de...
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A Trophy Forgotten | By Robert Gratson
-- We’ve all heard tales of a hunter shooting a deer and then someone taking it from them. This is one of those stories. It happened to me in Fayette County back in the 1992 archery season.
I was hunting with a very close friend ...
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Funnels, Tunnels, Turnpikes & Other Prime Sign | The single best clue to unraveling the secrets for tagging trophy bucks is to nail down their travel routes. One of the enduring questions about understanding buck behavior is whether or not their travel patterns are set in concrete. Let's face it: I...
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I Wish He Had a Doe With Him | By John Fritz
-- We have a relatively short firearms season here in Indiana (it's 15 days beginning Nov. 15) so the anticipation really starts to build around the first of November. My home and property are adjacent to a heavily wooded coal mine re...
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Delaware Sportsmen Against Hunger Program expanded | From the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
-- State officials have joined representatives from local charities to highlight the Delaware Sportsmen Against Hunger program and to thank the Quality Deer Management Assoc...
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Texas plans youth only hunts for turkey, whitetails | From the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
-- Passing on the hunting heritage to the next generation of hunters is what the special youth-only seasons are all about, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. It has set aside Oct...
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My Buck of a Lifetime | By Paul Daman
-- It was a cold, crisp November morning in Aberdeen, Ohio, the peak of the rut during the archery season. I had been on the stand for what seemed like all day, but it was only 10:30a.m. A cold front had moved out heavy rain the night ...
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Nebraska hunting news round up | From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- Apprentice volunteer hunter education instructors will be trained in upcoming sessions in North Platte and Grand Island.
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Of Sons, Friends and Brothers | By Ronald Harp
-- My story begins several years ago after many years of rather unproductive deer hunting with one of my best friends, David. We hunted mostly public land, seeing does occasionally but never a buck. Then I read an article in one of t...
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Wet weather puts a damper on Delaware muzzleloader season | From the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife
-- A half hour after sunset Oct. 17 marked closure of Delaware's 8-day muzzleloader deer season. The seemingly never-ending nor’easter put a damper of the deer harvest of 1,423 deer, down 235 deer com...
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NRA donates funding for South Carolina shooting ranges | From the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
-- The National Rifle Association recently presented a $75,000 check to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources for the construction of three shooting ranges in the state.
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My Unbelievable Dream Season | By Dr. Michael Tveraas
-- It was early October 2006 when my unbelievable dream season began. My 81-year-old friend Walter Senn had helped me build a blind near my clubhouse camp in the remote high peaks of the Adirondack State Forest...
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Ohio Public Land Whitetails | By Freddie McKnight
-- One minute I was watching a pair of yearling does contentedly feeding in my direction. The next, I was watching the largest buck I have ever seen while in a treestand. It was chasing a doe, presumably the yearlings' mother, a...
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Application deadline Nov. 2 for Kansas youth deer hunts | From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- On Dec. 2-13 and Jan. 1-10, Westar Energy's Green Team will offer guided deer hunts at Jeffrey Energy Center near St. Mary's. The hunts are for youth who have never harvested a deer.
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If You Can’t Beat ’Em ... | By Carey M. Hibbs
-- My husband has been hunting throughout the 10 years we’ve been married, but he really got serious about it over the last four years.
This caused many fights in our house. We own two businesses and have three children, and his ...
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Missouri’s urban deer harvest up 83 percent | From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Hunters checked 1,242 deer during the Urban Portion of Missouri’s Firearms Deer Season Oct. 9 through 12. Boone County led harvest totals with 247 deer checked, followed by St. Charles County wi...
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Vermont deer hunters anticipate a good season | From the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department
-- Vermont hunters are optimistic about the upcoming November rifle and December muzzleloader deer seasons and with good reason. Vermont has more older, bigger bucks after a regulati...
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Homework Pays Off With an A+ Trophy | By Steve Lamb
-- August 2006 was slow in arriving, and the September archery elk season was just handful of days away. Haunted by the mental images of the elk herd I stumbled across while bow hunting for mule deer in the fall of 2005, I could think ...
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Pennsylvania offers new online deer harvest reporting | From the Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- Hunters participating in the upcoming October antlerless deer seasons will be able to file their harvest reports through the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s new online system.
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At the Center of the Action | By Mark Gregor
-- It was Oct. 30, 2008, and the rut was just starting where I hunt in Wisconsin. It was a warm and windy day, so I was not too excited about heading afield. But if I didn’t go, I was guaranteed not to see or shoot anything!
I was in...
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Leftover MN either-sex deer permits on sale Oct. 12 | From the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
-- Firearm and muzzleloader hunters who were unsuccessful in this year’s lottery for an either-sex deer permit or did not apply can obtain free leftover permits beginning at 5 p.m. Oct. 12, from an...
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Making Up for Lost Time | By Marty Plunk
-- My 2004 bow season was cut short following a doctor’s visit. A blood clot had settled on my artificial heart valve, requiring immediate surgery. I missed the following year as well.
On Nov. 24, 2006, after not being able to hunt f...
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Georgia’s firearms deer season opens Oct. 17 | From the Georgia Department of Natural Resources
-- Georgia’s firearms deer season opens Saturday, Oct. 17 and lasts through Jan. 1 in the Northern Zone and in the Southern Zone, through Jan. 15.
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NH youth deer hunt set for Oct. 24-25 | From the New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission
-- New Hampshire's youth deer weekend Oct. 24-25 gives young people a chance to go deer hunting with an adult mentor without competing with adult hunters. Accompanying adults must be licensed hunters ...
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Current Arkansas deer harvest now available online | From the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
-- Deer hunters interested in studying the state’s deer harvest can now get real-time data on the season. Hunters can check the deer harvest numbers at https://dev.ark.org/gamecheck/reports.php.
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The Worst of Times, the Best of Bucks | By Bill Hoffman
-- Oct. 26, 2008, was a very blustery day in the middle of the South Dakota archery season. With wind gusts of up to 50 mph, I was very hesitant to go out that evening. My wife commented on how crazy I was, but I justified it by say...
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Setting Goals and Shooting Bucks | By Sue Griffin
-- My father taught me to hunt and fish when I was really young, which cemented the bond between us. Being a girl was never an obstacle.
He passed away when I was 18, but he left me with a spirit of independence.
Twenty years later,...
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Missouri Wildlife Code changes now in effect | From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Changes to Missouri’s Wildlife Code that went into effect July 1 affect youth and nonresident permits, the antler-point restriction, urban deer hunting zones and the timing of the antlerless and muz...
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Long Wait for His First Buck | By John Everett
-- My grandfather, Hubert Myers, passed away on May 16, 2006.
He was my best friend, hunting partner and mentor – the coolest 89-year-old kid you ever saw. There wasn’t anything he wouldn’t try.
I accompanied him in a deer...
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Mosquitoes Stole My Blood Trail | By Darin Wiley
-- Kansas bowhunters got an early start in 2008, but the price was having to deal with the heat and bugs. I was out there on Sept. 25, sweating and swatting mosquitoes.
When I’d finally had enough about 6:50 p.m., I dug out the repel...
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