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Entries for May 2008
CWD not Found in Pennsylvania Hunter-Harvested Deer Samples | From Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was not detected in samples taken from hunter-harvested deer during the state's 2007 hunting season, according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinaria...
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Arkansas 2008-09 Deer Permit Application Process Begins Soon | From Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
-- Permit applications will be available for zone and WMA doe quota, youth, archery, modern gun and muzzleloader deer hunts on several AGFC wildlife management areas and deer zones throughout the state.
Applic...
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Texas LAMPS Antlerless Deer Permit Applications Available | From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
-- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is now accepting applications for Landowner Assisted Management Permitting System (LAMPS) antlerless deer permits for the 2008-2009 hunting season.
The LAMPS program w...
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Tennessee Wildlife Commission Sets Coming Hunt Seasons | From Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
-- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission has finalized the 2008-09 state hunting seasons. The action was taken at the TWRC's regularly scheduled meeting May 21-22 at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Age...
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Dos and Don'ts of Doe Management | By Tracy Breen
-- Harvesting does is a topic that all hunters seem to have an opinion about. If a hunter brought a doe back to camp when I was a kid, he would be ridiculed and sent to his tent without supper. Everyone believed that harvesting does q...
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Traditional Lever Actions for Whitetails | By Randy D. Smith
-- I've hunted white-tailed deer for over 30 years, and I have no idea how many I've harvested. I consider a lever-action .30-30 carbine to be the perfect deer hunting tool. The .30-30 cartridge delivers a lot of moderate-ran...
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Idaho Fish and Game Adopts Wolf Hunting Rules | From Idaho Fish and Game
-- The Idaho Fish and Game Commission Thursday, May 22, adopted the first regulated hunting season on gray wolves in the state's history.
The commission, during its May meeting, set a wolf population goal of 518 wolves, and...
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Passing on a Family Tradition | By Robin Cochran
-- I would like to tell you a story of the person I consider to be the world's greatest dad, grandpa and hunter. Bill Vetter Sr. began hunting when he was 25 years old. It all started when he joined the Charlestown Archery Club. He ...
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Free Website Service Connects Hunters | From Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
-- Research surveys show that finding a place to hunt is a barrier for many people in today's Texas, which is why Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has created the Hunt Texas Online Connection, a free websi...
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Snake Mystique | By Steven E. Stillwell
-- Since the beginning of recorded time, snakes have been labeled with bad reputations. Some of these ridiculous misconceptions stem from superstitions, others from religious dogmas, but the majority of these opinions are form...
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Trials and Tribulations of a Texas Cull Buck | By Adam Corley
-- It was the first weekend of January 2007, and I was down to my last hunt, my last morning, my last hour of what was for me a difficult deer season. As I sat in my box blind that cool South Texas morning, I was beginning to face the...
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Kansas Pronghorn, Antelope Applications Available | From Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
-- Applications for permits to hunt antelope in 2008 have been mailed to last year's applicants. For those who did not apply last year, printed applications are available at offices of the Kansas Departme...
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My Friend 'The Big Red Monster' | By Everett Krause
-- What a bowhunting vacation I had been having in Ohio. I had taken 12 days off work to hunt the rut, which starts in early November. The early season up to this point had been great with lots of sightings, and I had passed on qui...
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Tennessee to Host Annual Becoming an Outdoors-Woman Workshop | From Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
-- The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) will host its Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) workshop June 20-22 in Crossville at the Clyde M. York 4-H Center.
The relaxed atmosphere of the BOW workshop...
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Black Hog Down | By Roark Russell
-- ENTERPRISE, Ala. -- Misty Morning, aka "The Buckmistress," star of stage, screen, Internet and deer stands, dropped by EA Outfitters "Swine so fine" wild hog hunting operation near Enterprise, Ala. Misty was t...
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Texas Offers Small Acreage Land Management Workshop June 7 | From Texas Parks and Wildlife
-- For more than a century, rural Texas land has been owned mainly by farm and ranch families who lived there. In recent decades, the countryside has been fragmented into smaller tracts owned increasingly by former urba...
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New York Offers Outdoorsmen Website Access to WMA Maps | From New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
-- New natural resource maps and other environmental information are part of a recent expansion of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's (DEC) website, Commissioner...
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Welcome to Mayberry | By Leon DeLoof
-- Last year during the third weekend of Michigan's bow season, my buddy and I were walking to our makeshift ground blind when two does and a nice 6-point buck jumped not even 40 yards from us. We trailed the does in hopes we would se...
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Florida to Accept Applications for FWC Quota Permits | From Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
-- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will be accepting applications June 2-12 for quota permits to hunt on wildlife management areas (WMAs) next season.
On many WMAs,...
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WV to Host 5th Annual Women in the Outdoors Event July 26 | From West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- It's time to register for the fifth annual Women in the Outdoors Event to be held at Kanawha State Forest on July 26, according to Frank Jezioro, Director of the West Virginia Division of Natural R...
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Last Comic Standing | By Dan Andrews
-- In early December 2004, a friend of mine named E.O. and I were invited to hunt on a friend's lease near Abilene, Texas. We arrived late on a Friday night and were greeted by another friend. In our minds, the lease was the ideal pla...
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New Season, Old Friend | By Chuck Vereen
-- It was November in Arkansas, and it had been unseasonably warm all week. On Wednesday evening, the weatherman enthusiastically announced a cold front was scheduled to hit Saturday morning, which happened to be the opening day for ...
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Oregon Extends Controlled Hunt Deadline | From Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
-- Oregon's controlled hunt deadline has been extended through close-of-business Monday, May 19 due to a slowdown in ODFW's point-of-sale system created by the high-volume of sales act...
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Workin' the Wind | By Kyle Schwabenbauer
-- My success as an archery hunter has sometimes been as unpredictable as a bottomland breeze. There have been days when all the pieces came together and I actually believed I had "figured things out." The...
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Just Beyond the Tree Line | By Braden Arp
-- Our stands have been stowed and the stories have all been told. Another season has come and gone. For some, the season brought success. For others, I suppose some regrets. No matter what the case, our daily countdown has begun in an...
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One 'Good' Turkey | By Sherri Good
-- This is the story of my first hunting experience and how I got there. In the fall of 2006, my dad gave me his 20-gauge shotgun after I completed a hunter safety course.
After shooting targets for a few months, I announced to my ...
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South Dakota Offers More Opportunities for Young Hunters | From South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission
-- Two South Dakota hunting seasons have been expanded to allow more opportunities for young hunters and more opportunities are on the way.
The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission has appro...
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Pennsylvania Removes Protection of Feral Swine | From Pennsylvania Game Commission
-- At the unanimous direction of the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners, and in response to a recent state Supreme Court ruling, Carl G. Roe, agency executive director, recently issued an order removing protec...
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Spring Mule Deer Survey Complete | From North Dakota Game and Fish Department
-- North Dakota Game and Fish Department big game biologists recently completed the annual spring mule deer survey. Based on observations, the population index in the badlands continues to remain higher tha...
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One Fine Buck | By Phil Fiene
-- It was a frosty Kansas morning on Nov. 13, 2002. The weather was not great for a morning bowhunt. Days like this make it easy to stay under the blankets. However, it was the first day of pheasant season, which would result in a lot ...
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Archery in the Off Season | By Tracy Breen
-- Archery season has come to an end and bowhunters everywhere find themselves wondering what to do now. Most of us shot our bows daily for weeks before the season opened to get ready for our fall hunts. We fine-tuned our equipment ...
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Going Large in Maine | By Val Faust
-- My first year to deer hunt in Maine was 2005. My brother-in-law Al Woodbury has hunted in Maine at Forth Generation Farm and Guide Service, which is owned and run by Mike Farrar. Al has had great success due to the fact he has taken ...
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No Ground Shrinkage Here | By Christopher Duncan
-- I had just settled into my treestand for a vigilant morning of deer hunting on the next to last day of Wisconsin's firearms season. BOOM! The sound of my father's .30-06 erupted in the morning air. BOOM! Another shot cracked...
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Colorado Wildlife Commission Denies Prairie Dog Hunting Ban | From U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance
-- The Colorado Wildlife Commission has voted to allow the continued hunting of prairie dogs after being presented with a petition asking it to issue a ban.
The ban was backed by the anti group WildEarth Guard...
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Federal Program Targets Landowners to Help Manage Wildlife | From Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife Conservation
-- On May 1, farmers and ranchers in northwest Oklahoma will have another reason to plant native vegetation on their cropland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently set up the State Acres for Wild...
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Alabama NASP State Championship Winners Announced | From Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
-- The largest youth archery competition in Alabama, the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) State Championship, was held Thursday, May 1, 2008 at the Birmingham Jefferson Civi...
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Six Days, Seven Bucks and 70 Pounds | By John Bradley
-- The excitement of the trip reached fever pitch as we loaded my son's bags in the truck. Finally, we were leaving in the morning for our trip to Hudson Bay located in Saskatchewan, Canada, with Dahl Creek Outfitters. I was going to...
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Illinois Non-Resident Archery Deer Permits on Sale June 1 | From Illinois Department of Natural Resources
-- Non-resident archery deer hunting permits for the 2008-09 Illinois Archery Deer season will be available through the DNR Direct online and by phone beginning June 1.
Non-residents can purcha...
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NASP State Tournament Draws 230 Young Archers | From Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- A total of 230 fourth- to 12th- grade students from 11 schools participated in the Nebraska National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) State Tournament held April 26 in Lincoln, according to Aaron Hersh...
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A Sitka Adventure | By Jeff Sullivan
-- Hunting Sitka blacktail deer in Prince William Sound, Alaska, presents many challenges for a first-time deer hunter. For example, travel by boat or plane can be turbulent due to the unpredictable weather in this area. The islands...
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Going Above and Beyond | By Greg Humphreys, Wildlife Biologist, Deltic Timber Corp.
-- During the summer of 2007, I received a phone call from the Cedar Hill Hunting Club. They were calling to inform us they were planning to host a youth hunt for a young handicapped hun...
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