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Entries for August 2007
Rattled In | By Jon Bryan
-- On Nov. 11, 2006, my son, Brad, and I went out at 12:15 p.m. to rattle up a buck. Brad is an active duty soldier stationed at Ft. Hood. I am retired and own a ranch five miles southwest of Goldthwaite, Texas. The little cool snap we ...
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A Second Chance | By Mark Warford
-- In October 2005, I took my son, Allen, hunting on the opening weekend of Kentucky's youth hunt. At dusk, as we were headed through the field toward our house, we saw a striking silhouette of a monstrous buck grazing in the distanc...
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Keystone Cops Go Huntin' | By Dana Denton
-- Back in the day, there were but a few deer in Kentucky. By far, the largest population was around Mammoth Cave National Park. My dad, James Denton, and his buddies hunted religiously. According to my dad, they typically hunted wit...
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Under Pressure | By Bob Humphrey
-- Whitetails aren't easy to hunt anywhere. The toughest places to take whitetails are areas with high hunter densities. Deer quickly learn to avoid danger and in high-pressure areas, their instincts are honed to a fine edge. The com...
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Sweet as Pie | By Scott DelGrego
-- The Saturday afternoon plan was to drive over to my brother's house in Durham, Conn., and see if any deer were moving through the (bow only) state land behind his house. After evaluating the wind direction and jumping two does, ...
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Lucky Misses | by Tyler Britt
-- I have been hunting with my dad and Old Buddy (my grandpa) since I was 4 years old, but when I was nine, Dad finally bought me my own rifle and taught me how to shoot. He and I started scouting a field behind our house, and we saw ...
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Rites of Passage | By Patrick D. Harmeyer
-- My 9-year-old son Cameron was already an old pro at hunting when we made our annual hunting trip to Pushmataha Plantation in Butler, Ala. He started hunting with me at age 6 and began carrying and shooting a .410 shotgun at...
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Silent Treatment | By Jason Artrip
-- The spring of 2006 started off like every other year in rural, southwest Virginia, having some extremely warm, sunny days, along with some very cold, rainy, snowy days. On the nice days, I would drive up and down my road in the mo...
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Plan Your Fall Hunting Season Now | By Randy D. Smith
-- Now is the time to scout and secure your land for this season's hunting.
While the number of hunting license sales is going down in this country the amount of time spent in the field by individual hunters has increased dramat...
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Give Cold Feet the Boot | By Ken Piper
-- Buying hunting boots today isn't easy. There have been as many advances in footwear as there have been in clothing and other gear, but for some reason we don't seem to pay as much attention to what we put on our feet. Maybe it's be...
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Thanks, Dad, for Taking Me to the Farm | By Paul Thein
-- Since I was a teenager fresh out of hunter safety classes, I've been hunting a family farm. Hunting is a family tradition for us. Our hunting party consists of cousins and close family friends. Over the years I have watched many of ...
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Buckmasters Expo Returns to Montgomery in 2008 | By Ken Piper
-- MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 17, 2007 - Hunting is big business in Alabama, and thanks to the support of the state, city and county, one of hunting's biggest events is returning to Montgomery in 2008.
Photo: Buckmasters founder and CEO ...
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Another Generation on the Farm | By Ben Grohn
-- Ever since I was about 6 years old, I have loved hunting with my dad and the rest of my family. We hunt on our own land that we refer to as "the farm." The property has been in our family since it was first homesteaded in 1...
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Choosing Proper Arrow Length | By Josh Sanden, Easton Archery
-- Like many things, including archery and bowhunting, personal preference plays a roll in determining proper arrow length. In my job I have the opportunity to speak with a lot of professional shooters, hunters, and pr...
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Win, Lose or Draw | By Travis Mitchell
-- I hunt at Yellow Creek, a hunting club located in a hardwood bottom below Millwood Lake Dam just outside McNab, Ark., and is 20 miles from Texarkana. I have been a member for 24 years. We hunt duck, turkey, deer and the fishin...
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Don't Feed the Bears | By Jason Bazala
-- It was the 2001 archery season in Bolivar, Pa., and I had a buck tag and two doe tags to start the season. I had got skunked for a buck the previous two years, so I was desperate to fill my tag with an antlered creature; especiall...
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Bucks Beyond the Clover Plots | Text & Photos by Tommy Kirkland
-- Beyond the clover and chicory plots, deer possess an inherent instinct for a diverse diet of native and exotic foods. Deer may vanish from supplemental feeding locales, leaving us hunting fanatics puzzled when ...
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This One's for the Wall | By Joey Saffell Jr.
-- It was early in the morning on the second day of youth season. While it was
dark, we made our way into the woods. We went to our neighbor, Roger Cales',
place to hunt. It is only about a quarter-mile from my house. He told...
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Techno-Scout Your Way to Success | By Bob Humphrey
-- Pre-season scouting can be the single most important factor to consistent hunting success. Unfortunately, it takes time; and in today's busy world, many hunters find it difficult to find enough time to hunt, to say nothing of scou...
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More Than Just a Kodak Moment | By William Westcott
-- Where do I start? I guess back some years ago to fill you in on a little of my background. I had an accident in the winter of 1987 that left me confined to a wheelchair. Since then I have gone back to a local junior college ...
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Defiance in Nature | By Floyd Parr
-- I consider myself to be in tune with nature. I have gone through life enjoying the bounties that the great outdoors has to offer. A recent walk into work was no different.
I noticed that there was a lot of critter activity going o...
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Talk of the Town | By Andrew Malott
-- On Oct. 21, 2006 in Winamac, Ind., in Pulaski County the day started out early with my dad getting me out of bed. I remember thinking why should I even get up; it's not like I'm going to get a deer. It had been six years since I ...
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My Little Piece of Deer Heaven | By Randy D. Smith
-- There was a time when I had all the deer hunting ground I could ever want. I had free access to nearly a thousand acres of sandhill pasture, creek bottoms, and riverine woods bordering some of the best farmland in Kansas. Some o...
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So much for the Terrible Twos | By Larry Bart Barefoot
-- It was the first weekend in January 2007, in Alabama's Black Belt. Of course, it was your typical Alabama winter. The temperatures were in the upper-60s to mid-70s with an approaching cold front that had wreaked havoc, prod...
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Click, Click, Boom | By Al Rosario
-- This is an untypical story about how I harvested a non-typical 12-point buck.
It was 9:35 on opening morning, and I saw a big doe about 50 yards away walking slowly from my right to my left. Naturally, I start looking for a buck, ...
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Red Nails Lead to Deer Trail | By Wendy Jennings
-- My name is Wendy Jennings, and I wanted to tell you about my 19-point buck that I took in Putnam County, Fla.
It was opening morning of blackpowder season, Oct. 28, 2005. My husband
Chuck dropped me off at my treestand around...
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