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Entries for February 2009
Ohio Hunters Set New State Harvest Record | From the Ohio DNR
-- A total of 252,017 deer were killed during Ohio's 2008-09 hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. This season's total surpasses the 2006-07 record total of 237,316.
The final ...
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Missouri bears are part of the Show-Me Landscape | From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Show-Me State hunters see them. So do anglers and campers. Most encounters are fleeting, leaving surprised outdoors people wondering how a black bear got into Missouri. The answer is “over the m...
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Missouri deer season dates, urban zones change this fall | From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- Hunters planning vacations around Missouri’s firearms deer season should look carefully at 2009 deer hunting seasons approved by the Conservation Commission last year.
The structure of Missour...
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Commission considers revised deer zone boundaries | From the Alabama Game and Fish Commission
-- Commissioners for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission were presented with proposals for the 2009-2010 hunting seasons Feb. 19, and will make a final decision at its March meeting.
One major proposed ch...
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8th Annual Spring Turkey Hunting Clinic in Kansas | From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- On March 28, the Flint Hills Gobblers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation and the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Hunter Education Program will conduct its 8th Annual Spring Tu...
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Generational Glory | By F.V. “Fred” Davis
-- It was the second morning of the 2007 Indiana firearms deer season. I telephoned my dad, Freddie, to ask how his hunt was going.
“I shot at a buck, but I don’t know if I got him,” he said...
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A New-Found Obsession | By Lindsay Creasy
-- After several years of successful deer hunting, I had become somewhat bored. Although deer hunting was still a passion, some part of me wanted something different with more of a challenge.
Ironically, soon after my longing for ...
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Small Lease, Big Texas Buck | By Ronald Payne
-- This past year was tough on hunters. With all the rainfall we had in East Texas, the deer just didn’t have a lot of incentive to get up and move around, except, of course, at night.
That said, my friend Jeff Cunningham and...
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First deer by muzzleloader | By Dennis Thielke
-- What began as a very frustrating deer season ended on a happy note in mid-December. I saw a few deer, but I never got a shot at one during Minnesota's bow season. I got to pull the trigger during the firearms season, but I had n...
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Rothe Buck That's Scared of His Own Shadow | By Roman York
-- Three years ago, I was fortunate enough to get exclusive rights to hunt a north Georgia property that's known to hold some big deer. The area hadn't been pressured by hunters since the turn of the century, or so I was told.&nb...
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Michigan Begins Fawn Survival Study | From the Michigan DNR
-- The Department of Natural Resources today announced the start of a new research project in the Upper Peninsula. The project will investigate the role of predators, winter weather and habitat on white-tailed deer fawn surviva...
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First Buck by Bow | By Michael Glenn Jr.
-- Although I now live in Alabama, I was born in Mt. Vernon, Ill. Every Thanksgiving, I go back home to hunt with my father for six or seven days. This is the only time we get to spend together in the woods.
Whenever our ...
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Ohio DNR invites public comment on Wildlife issues | From the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- COLUMBUS, OH - The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife invites the public to its annual Open Houses on Sunday, March 1, 2009, from noon until 3 p.m.
"A...
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Input Requested from Ohio's Waterfowl Hunters | From the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- COLUMBUS, OH - The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is asking Ohio waterfowl hunters to evaluate its waterfowl management program. The survey may be taken on...
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The Family That Hunts Together Stays Together | By Ray Alexander
-- I've always put in long hours bowhunting, but with my 11-year-old son Ray Alexander III coming of hunting age, all we did was hunt squirrels for weeks. Finally, I decided to take a few hours to walk the ridge with my bow.
I had ...
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Opportunity and Redemption | By Matt Kirksey
-- It was November 2006. The Alabama deer season had just gotten underway, and I was itching to get in the woods with my oldest son, Hunter. All week he had been telling me he was going to go. However, as 12-year-olds are apt to do, ...
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What Would You Trade for a Trophy Buck? | By Wayne Barber, Jr.
-- Like many a Southern boy, I went to Illinois looking for a hunting adventure. Little did I know that I would actually have the hunt of a lifetime.
My good friend and owner of the Illinois Connection, Doug Benefield, was tell...
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That's No Doe! | By Jacob Rickett
-- I play baseball at North Georgia College State and University. When not in class or on the ball field, I'm in the woods - either hunting deer or chasing turkeys in Oglethorpe County. If it's not hunting season, I'm bass fishing.
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Maryland Deer Hunters Set New Record | From the Maryland DNR
-- Deer hunters in the state of Maryland harvested over 100,000 deer in a single season for the first time since modern deer management began in the early 1900’s. The record 100,437 deer taken during the 2008-2009 deer se...
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Big John | By Russell Latimer
-- I've hunted every year for 33 years and have never taken what most people would call a trophy buck. And because deer hunting has become big business, I have never been able to afford to hunt on a trophy-type lease. None...
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UAM students, AGFC personnel bolster deer research | From the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
-- ARKANSAS CITY – An efficient team of wildlife biologists with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and graduate students from the University of Arkansas at Monticello is compiling needed data on...
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KDWP to Offer Special Spring Turkey Hunts in 2009 | From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- This spring, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP) will conduct a number of special turkey hunts on public and private lands, as well as state parks. These hunts will offer a more cont...
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Firearm Sales Continue Upward in January | From the National Shooting Sports Foundation
-- NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Despite a weak economy and slumping retail sales, firearm sales continued to increase in January, continuing an upswing that began after November's election.
Data from the FBI's Nat...
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Chronic Wasting Disease Not Detected in Ohio Deer | From the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
-- COLUMBUS, OH - For the seventh straight year, testing of Ohio's deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative brain disease that affects elk, mule deer and w...
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The Grunt That Saved the Season | By Denis C. Querio
-- Let me preface this story by informing you that I am handicapped and must wear a full brace on my left leg to walk properly.
It was the last day of the 1998 archery season. A friend of mine took me to his uncle’s far...
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Birthday Surprise | By Jacky Mowrey
-- I've been hunting ever since I was a young pup. A couple of decades prior to the 2008 season, I'd seen only one "dwarf deer." A friend's wife shot it.
I had the pleasure of shooting my own on my 49th birthday: Jan. 8, 2...
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Carter's First Deer | By Tony Perez
-- My eight-year-old son Carter's "Papaw" is a deer-hunting fanatic, so imagine Carter’s excitement when Papaw announced that he was going to take Carter to his deer lease in Brady, Texas, for a whitetail hunt.
I went ...
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Michigan Seeks Input on Deer Management | From the Michigan DNR
-- Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced a statewide tour of public meetings on deer management.
The meetings are aimed at gathering regionalinput for the ongoi...
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The Unexpected Buck | By Robert R. Rogers
-- The 2008 Ohio archery season started out warm and the deer were not moving as much as we had hoped. Just walking to our stands made the sweat roll down our faces and backs. This was not the weather we had expected for central ...
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Oklahoma Deer Hunt Much Better Than OK | By Kelly Guinn
-- My hunt for a trophy buck began in late October 2007 in Woods County, Okla. I was hunting from a ladder stand about 100 yards from a river. Some does, spikes, and young 8-point came into view, but no mature deer. However, my friend...
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"It's Dad's Turn Now" | By David Kisamore
-- I am 42 years old. In my 30-plus years of hunting, some of my greatest joys have been teaching my now 14-year-old son, Joshua, how to hunt and then having the privilege of seeing him bag his first deer, a large doe.
That was ba...
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Season Salvaged | By Adam Riley
-- Because I was in my first semester of college and playing football, there weren't many opportunities for me to get in the woods during the 2008-09 hunting season. But I learned quickly that in terms of bucks and time spent afield, q...
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Vermont Moose Hunting Applications Now Available | From the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department
-- WATERBURY, VT – Vermont moose hunting permit applications are available on the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s website (www.vtfishandwildlife.com) and at license agents ...
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Wild turkey population to be monitored | From the Idaho Department of Fish and Game
-- A select group of hen turkeys will soon be unwitting participants in a wild turkey population study on Andrus Wildlife Management Area near Cambridge.
The cooperative effort between Idaho Fish a...
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No Expansion of CWD Found in Latest Tests | From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- Twenty-two deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in November, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. More than 4,900 deer were tested. The positive tests do not represent ...
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The Kidney Stone Buck | By Philip Allen
-- I took this buck on Thursday , Nov. 8, 2007 in Dauphin County, Pa., six days after having kidney stone surgery and just three days before our archery season closed.
With the pain and discomfort from my 15th kidney stone cutting m...
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The Highs and Lows of Hunting | By Todd Strong
-- Last June, my two hunting buddies Randy, John, and I entered a state permit drawing to hunt for mule deer on the Matador Wildlife Management Area in Texas. The year before, 10 lucky hunters from 1,600 applications were drawn. Ima...
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