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Entries for November 2007
A Decade Down and Two Deer Up | By Chris Harris
-- Until last year, I had taken a 10-year sabbatical from hunting. But then after the wife had half a dozen encounters with deer in one year on her 5-mile drive to the interstate, I decided that I needed to take up hunting again - i...
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Ohio's Guernsey County Leads State Deer Harvest on Opening Day | From Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- Steady rains dampened the efforts of Ohio hunters on opening day of the 2007 deer-gun season. Hunters took 19,391 white-tailed deer on Monday, Nov. 26, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resource...
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Nebraska Posts Record Firearm Deer Harvest | From Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- Hunters harvested a record number of deer in Nebraska during the November firearm season, according to a preliminary report by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. With all but one check station reporti...
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Every Point Counts | By Carl Redding
-- It was an ice cold morning during the start of southwestern Pennsylvania's rut. I was going to be hunting with a buddy of mine on a small piece of private property near the West Virginia border. The air was frosty cold with the te...
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Every Day is Thanksgiving | By Doug Zeiters
-- I've enjoyed deer hunting for many years, so after a frustrating 2006 season of no bucks, a friend asked me to try turkey hunting with him. My friend, Ben Miller, is Amish and enjoys hunting, fishing, and the outdoors as much as I...
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Buckmasters' Budgetmasters (Hot Gear For A Cool Christmas) | By Jeff Murray
-- Hunters looking for cool gifts to give (or receive) often fall prey to last-minute decisions and trite point-of-purchase displays. Do everyone a favor and look for this year's hottest gear ahead of time. For the budget-minded, he...
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The Whitetail's Scrape | Text & Photos by Tommy Kirkland
-- As the hunting season begins, communication among whitetails increases through activity known as scraping. This natural function is vital for whitetails to set the stage for successful breeding. Although there ...
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Part 2: The Art & Science of Rattling White-tailed Deer | By Russell Thornberry
-- How to Rattle Antlers
There are numerous considerations that enter into antler rattling, such as location, position, wind, etc. There are certain limitations when rattling from a treestand as opposed to rattling from a grou...
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Trespasser Scouts Missouri Monster | By Randall Bowling
-- The hunt took place in Lake of the Ozarks, Mo. I received permission to hunt on a friend's property that sits next to the Osage River and has open fields and wooded areas. Nobody was allowed to hunt this land, and the owner had...
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Soldier's First Season | By Douglas J. Saffell
-- Here I was at the young age of 36 and getting ready for the deer season to open. I was all ready to go and the night was closing in. I went to bed around 8 p.m. and awoke early the next morning to head out to the area my pos...
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Friday the 13th is my Lucky Day | By Steve Kidwell
-- While bowhunting in Central Ohio one fall morning, I didn't know this day would be one of my best whitetail hunts ever. On Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1990, I sat on my stand watching a big buck chasing does from daylight until 11 a.m. F...
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West Virginia Warns of Errors in 2007-08 Regulations Booklet | From West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- The Division of Natural Resources strives to provide hunters and trappers with an accurate, well-designed and informative regulations brochure each year. However, given the complexity and number of...
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Ohio Posts Record Bow Harvest Figure | From Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- For the fourth straight year, Ohio bow hunters set a record harvest during the first six weeks of the state's deer-archery season, taking 53,982 whitetails. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Res...
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New York DEC Confirms Additional Cases of EHD | From New York Department of Environmental Conservation
-- Recent tests for Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) in several additional Albany, Rensselaer and Niagara County deer have come back positive, according to the New York State Department of E...
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Roll On! | By Harry Fristoe
-- Last deer season was about as good as anyone could ever dream about. I took a nice doe during opening morning of muzzleloader season, and I took an 8-point buck on the opening day of the Texas rifle season. The following weekend ...
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A Shot in the Dark | By Gregg Fuller
-- I was deer hunting in late December 2006 near the central Texas town of Comanche about 100 miles southwest of Fort Worth. I had already taken my allotted trophy buck, and was now working on my cull buck tag. We hadn't seen very ma...
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The Greatest Gift of All | By Scott W. Johnson
-- I have been hunting for 40 years. I live in northeast Florida, and it is a tradition around here that we hunt with dogs. The woods are thick and the swamps seem to be endless. Once inside what I call a booger swamp you lose al...
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Blessings From Above | By Larry Porter
-- It was a hot November day in western Tennessee. It was not a day that you would think much about deer hunting. The mosquitoes were out, and it was about 80 degrees. But I had two hours before my daughter's basketball game,...
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The Chainsaw Buck | By Frank Delph Jr.
-- Maryland's muzzleloader deer season was approaching. I had just purchased a new Thompson/Center .50 caliber muzzleloader and had the tack driver outfitted with a Nikon Omega scope. I was eager to take to the woods. But there ...
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Rut Time is the Right Time | By Tab R. Troutman
-- It was the last week of the 2006 Pennsylvania archery season, and I had hunted three days without much success. I always schedule vacation at this time to try and hit the rut. However, I hadn't seen anything, much less gotten a...
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A Missed Opportunity | By Lucas Smith
-- It was mid-September when I first saw the buck. My eyes had taken a snapshot of its wide, thick antlers, and stored the memory deep in my mind.
I knew the very first time I laid eyes on the buck that on opening day, it would be mi...
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Now You See Him - Now You Don't | By David Wagman
-- Muzzleloader season is always such a fine challenge. One shot at best! Not so this time, though. I was invited once again to hunt with a friend on a 200-plus-acre dairy farm in the thumb of Michigan. We went out early on a clear D...
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Organization Formed to Involve Youth in Shooting Sports | From Youth Shooting Sports Alliance
-- Several hunting and shooting industry executives recently joined forces to create the Youth Shooting Sports Alliance (YSSA). The YSSA was created to facilitate fund raising and create grants that help ke...
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Timing the Rut | By Bob Humphrey
-- The ingredients were all there for a super hunt. It was the middle of November, peak of the rut, and I was in the heart of big whitetail country. Even the weather was cooperating - clear and cold every day. Now it was all up to th...
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Caught Cat Napping | By Bernie Bailey
-- During the shotgun deer season last November, my brother and I were hunting a lottery hunt in a dismal swamp in Suffolk, Va. It had been a long, hot morning with the temperature around 80 degrees and we hadn't seen very much - on...
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Memorable Caribou Encounter | By Seth Wietgrefe
-- It began with an 11-hour drive north of Fairbanks, Alaska. The month was December and the weather was bitter - 30 below zero with whiteout snow blinding us. My friend, Dave, and I hiked several miles from the road to hunt caribo...
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