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Entries for March 2009
Our First Season Together | By Jeff Story
-- After all my talk about beautiful hunting locations, my new bride, Virginia (Ginni), wanted to try deer hunting. Being in the military (USAF) and stationed in North Dakota, Ginni and I started to prepare for the upcoming seasons. We...
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The Gift | By John Porter
-- Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
October 1, 2006 — Opening day for bowhunting in Maine dawned warm and sunny — not the best weather to harvest venison or...
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Benefits of Prescribed Burning are many, but challenges abound | From the SC Department of Natural Resources
-- The use of prescribed fire as a land management tool has deep and ancient roots in South Carolina's heritage, but conducting prescribed burns is becoming increasingly challenging . There are a variety o...
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Prescribed Burns Scheduled on Public Areas across Nebraska | From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will conduct prescribed burns on wildlife management areas (WMA), state recreation areas (SRA) and state parks (SP) when conditions are favorable through April 3...
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KS Women on Target Shooting Skills Seminar planned May 30 | From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- The fourth Women on Target Shooting Skills Clinic will be held May 30 in Lil’ Toledo Lodge. Limited to 35 women, participants must pre-register as soon as possible.
The event is spons...
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Determination and a Couple of Hours | By Ron Less Jr.
-- I didn’t start hunting until a couple years after I graduated from college, which is much later than most of my fellow hunting buddies began. My father didn’t hunt, and my mother didn’t like guns or even ...
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A Soldier’s Reward | By Jed Sherman
-- This hunting story begins in 2004, when I was stationed in Okinawa, Japan. You see, I am a Marine. And that is when I started bugging my wife with constant talk about hunting.
Finally, after 3 1/2 years and a tour in Iraq, I got ...
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Benefits for wildlife may emerge from ice-damaged trees | From the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
-- RUSSELLVILLE – Extensive damage was suffered by forests of north Arkansas in the February ice storm. But that cloud has a potential silver lining.
Workers with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commissi...
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Joshua’s First Rabbit | By Nick Fowler
-- There comes a time when a father gets a rare opportunity to witness his child take his first step toward becoming an outdoorsman. I was one of those lucky fathers in October 2005.
Dale, a good friend and neighbor, asked me i...
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Ten CWD-positive deer reported by KDWP | From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks reports a total of 10 chronic wasting disease (CWD) occurrences from among almost 2,700 deer tissue samples collected and submitted for lab analysis by K...
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Tennessee Elk Hunt Applications Available Beginning April 1 | From Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
-- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will accept applications from April 1 through May 31 for participation in Tennessee’s first ever managed elk hunt.
The elk hunt will be held October 19-23 at...
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A Story by Itself Cannot Stand | By Mike Handley
-- An outfitter friend e-mailed a well written story last month about a client’s hunt for a world-class black bear. Along with it, he attached several gorgeous images of the man and his trophy.
Six e-mails, a visit to a phot...
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Bad Weather, Good Hunting | By Wayne Vidler
-- Dec. 29, 2006, was a cold morning in Coleman County, Texas, and I was on the downside of the rut. I was hunting all day off a heavily used trail, which led to a winter oat field I had planted the previous September.
I had placed ...
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There’s Always Room for Luck | By Travis Zufelt
-- Long before the general archery season began for our beautiful state of Utah, I had done my homework and put in many hours scouting, somehow making enough time to maintain my regular duties of husband and father of five. I was wo...
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Sparing Jakes Could Improve Turkey Hunting Now and Later | From the Missouri Department of Conservation
-- JEFFERSON CITY–Turkey hunters in many parts of Missouri don’t need an expert to tell them the state’s turkey population is down. However, they might be interested in suggestions that ...
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Bighorn Sheep Survey Shows Healthy Population | From the North Dakota Game and Fish Department
-- Based on observations during the annual bighorn sheep survey, biologists believe North Dakota’s tough winter didn’t significantly harm the state’s bighorn sheep population. In fact,...
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Apply Now for Nevada’s Big Game Tags | From the Nevada Department of Wildlife
-- The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) is now accepting big game tag applications for the 2009 -2010 hunting season. The deadline for receipt of applications is 5 p.m. on Monday, April 20. Big game applica...
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Making Up for Lost Time | By Michael Oder
-- It’s practically a sin in Texas for a man to see his 45th birthday having never hunted deer. At least that’s what my neighbor, Jack, told me. He bought some property out in west Texas and told me he was going t...
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Moment Shared | By James A. Weaver Jr.
-- Oct. 12, 2008, started out as a cool morning in southeastern Ohio. My brother, Jason, and I were in our stands well before sunrise, one of my favorite times. You are given the opportunity to think about things and just enjo...
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Publication shows all Kansas land open to spring turkey hunting | From the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- The 2009 Kansas Spring Turkey Atlas is now available for viewing and download on the agency's website, www.kdwp.state.ks.us. From the home page, click Hunting/Turkey/Spring Turkey Atlas to view acc...
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Nonresident Any-Deer Bow Licenses Remain | From the North Dakota Game and Fish Department
-- More than 250 any-deer bow licenses are still available to nonresidents in 2009, according to Carrie Whitney, licensing supervisor for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department.
The Game and Fish De...
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A Day to Remember | By Troy Willie
-- During Iowa’s 2007 gun season, I found some large rubs that primed my pump. I couldn’t wait to resume bowhunting. It had been five years since I’d had the time and lived in an area where I could enjoy hunting with...
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Nebraska Approves Big Game Recommendations for 2009 | From Nebraska Game and Parks
-- A new October antlerless deer hunting season was authorized by the Nebraska Game and Parks Board of Commissioners on Friday to address a specific population concern. All 2009 big game recommendations were approved.
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My Front-row Seat | By Richard Donati
-- I pulled onto the shoulder of the main road and shut off the engine. It was still pitch black outside, and the clock read 4:08. Perfect. I jumped out, grabbed my hat, gloves, head-net, flashlight and bow, and then I struck out f...
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My First Whitetail | By Bryce Trager
-- I took my first whitetail last December during south central Wisconsin’s extended CWD hunt.
I’d just arrived home after a hard day at work when I saw three really nice bucks feeding in an alfalfa field on Grandpa&rs...
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Take a Friend Hunting | By Shawn Collins
-- You’ve all heard the saying, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Well my story is just that.
I’m 34 years old and have taken a few deer, bu...
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2008-09 Buckmasters Online Story Contest Winners | From Buckmasters Online
-- The results are in and the winners have been chosen for the 2008-09 Buckmasters Online Story Contest. With more than 140 great stories to choose from, it wasn’t easy, but the prize for the best story goes to Bill C...
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Wisconsin Deer Management Unit Information | From the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
-- MADISON – Hunters and others can get the latest deer management unit (DMU) information and preliminary deer population estimates and find out what the 2009 deer hunting season structure may...
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Proposal would limit South Dakota Elk Tags for 2009 | From the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Commission
-- PIERRE, S.D.- South Dakota elk hunters could see a reduction in tags available for the 2009 seasons.
A proposal from the Game Fish and Parks Commission is recommending a reduction in licenses...
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Hog Hunts Scheduled on WMA, Forest Service Lands | From the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
-- The S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have initiated efforts to remove feral hogs from their respective properties.
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Deer Donation Totals | From the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources has announced hunters donated 1,149 deer to the Hunters Helping the Hungry (HHH) Program during the 2008 hunting season – very close to las...
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Seventh Encounter Ends Badly for Buck | By Lawrence Alexander
-- I hunted this deer for two years. It was within bow range three different times the first season, but I never had a decent shot. I was worried the buck wouldn’t survive Virginia’s gun season.
Much to my delight,...
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Michigan Expands Crossbow Hunting Opportunities | From Michigan Natural Resources Commission
-- New crossbow regulations recently approved by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission are designed to expand hunting opportunities, retain existing hunters and recruit new hunters, and offer a way for ...
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The Beggar’s-Lice Buck | By David Rehrig
-- Opening week of Georgia’s general gun season was warm — too warm for deer to be moving much. But even a bad day hunting beats a good day at the office, so I was sitting in a low box tower underneath a power line right ...
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Some Days You Gotta Dance | By Chris Gilley
-- It was about 20 degrees as I arrived at my box stand 45 minutes before daylight on Nov. 9, 2003. Despite the chill in the air, I wanted to be there early since the rut was on in northeast Texas’ Cass County.
When I got to t...
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No Regrets | By Maurice A. King III
-- First, let me start by acknowledging that there might be some people who feel I should not have taken this deer. I would just like to say that I’m a very ethical person. I respect the environment and wildlife ...
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Pinch Me If I'm Dreaming | By Billie Ford
-- I was working long hours and had little time left to hunt at the end of each workday. It was shotgun season in northwest Ohio, the most exciting time of the year to me.
I'd been hunting on my friend's farm for the past...
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Pa. Board Takes Steps To Allow Magnifying Scopes on Crossbows | From the Pa. Game Commission
-- The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners, in a notational vote, yesterday gave preliminary approval to a regulatory change that would allow hunters to use magnifying scopes on bows or crossbows during the archery ...
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How Now, Brown ... Buck? | By Donald Horton
-- At 10 miles long and 3 miles wide, Sapelo is Georgia’s fourth largest island. It covers nearly 18,000 acres, and is also home to the Sapelo Island WMA.
After being selected for a firearms quota hunt there, my friend...
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Nebraska to Consider Big Game Recommendations | From Nebraska Game and Parks
-- The Nebraska Game and Parks Board of Commissioners will consider recommendations for the 2009 big game hunting seasons, as well as other issues, at its meeting March 13 in Lincoln.
The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. i...
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Louisiana to Enforce Turkey-Tagging Regs in 2009 | From Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries
-- The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will enforce turkey-tagging regulations during the 2009 turkey season and urges hunters to become familiar with the steps in the process bef...
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Season to Remember | By Ezekiel Rivera
-- My brother, Isaac, drove all the way from Florida to hunt with me during Pennsylvania’s deer season. From the outset, we had a feeling this year would be different.
Eager for a change of pace, my family and I moved to a h...
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A Bird in Hand; Sow in the Brush | By George K. Swartzfager
-- I was hunting turkeys at Fisheating Creek Hunting Camp near Lake Okeechobee in Florida on Friday, March 7, 2003. It was pretty wet that year, so before daylight, I had to wade through about 200 yards of knee-deep mud and ...
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