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Utah board reduces buck deer permits slightly
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From Utah Division of Wildlife Resource
-- The Utah Wildlife Board has approved 86,500 general buck deer permits for hunts in Utah's 30 new deer hunting units this fall. That's 500 fewer than the 87,000 permits approved in 2011, divided as Arch...
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Indiana Jones? Nope, Indiana bat!
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Before last month, the last time an Indiana bat had been seen in Georgia, Lyndon Baines Johnson was president.
That footnote changed April 14 when private consultants tracked one of the federally endangered bats from a Tennessee cave to a pine sna...
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Testing a Scope
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You can judge a scope by its looks, cost and reputation, but how do you test it for function? You really don't know how it will perform until you mount it atop a rifle and spend quality time in the mud and the blood and the rain.
Or maybe not.
T...
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NH moose hunt lottery deadline is May 25
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From New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
-- Hunters who want a chance to hunt moose in New Hampshire this fall have until May 25 to submit an application for the moose hunt lottery.
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WV hunters donate $75,000 to Hunters Helping the Hungry
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From West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
-- A check for $75,000 representing funds raised during the Governor’s One Shot deer hunt in December 2011 has been presented to the Hunters Helping the Hungry Program (HHH), administered by Divisi...
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NH seeking public help to track wild turkey broods
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From New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
-- The public is again being asked to help track wild turkey broods in New Hampshire this spring and summer.
Fish and Game relies on citizen participation to get as much turkey brood data as possible th...
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Old Deer Calendars = Educational Targets
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At the end of the year, don't throw away your deer calendar. You know, the ones with the beautiful whitetail photos for each month of the year. Deer calendars are perfect for teaching youth or beginners shot placement and various hunting situation...
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Walter Sr., You Were Right
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I started deer hunting 24 years ago, after I got married. My wife's entire family hunts deer. Until then, I had not even thought about deer hunting. At that time, my wife's grandfather, Walter Boldridge Sr., was still around. He was great - especi...
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Canada Focus, Part II
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-- About six years ago, Greg Steen, an avid hunter from the eastern Shore of Maryland, invited me to fill in a cancellation for a four-day deer hunt at the end of September in Saskatchewan. I jumped at the opportunity.
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I Went, I Saw...
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Almost half an hour since craning my neck and peering up at the tiny treestand illuminated by flashlight beam — 15 minutes of that spent relearning how to breathe after getting up there — I was sufficiently calm enough to pull up my bow.
I’m prof...
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Indiana commission extends one-buck rule
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From Indiana Department of Natural Resources
-- Indiana’s Natural Resources Commission has approved an indefinite extension of what’s commonly referred to as the one-buck rule for deer hunting.
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Hunters, non-hunters can now donate to new HHH program
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From Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
-- Hunters and non-hunters alike can donate to fund the new Hunters Helping the Hungry program, which encourages hunters to give harvested deer to participating processors to feed Nebraskans in need.
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Basic map and compass workshop offered June 16
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From New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
-- A free workshop on beginning-level map and compass navigation skills will be offered to New Hampshire residents June 16 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Owl Brook Hunter Education Center.
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More than 4,000 KS permits left; on sale June 18
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From Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
-- Kansas has completed the nonresident deer permit drawing for the 2012 seasons, and for those applicants who were unsuccessful, there’s good news. More than 4,000 permits are left from the in...
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Year-round feeders and small tracts
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I hunt on a 10-acre tract. Agricultural fields border two sides and woods border two sides. I'm considering placing a feeder on my tract in hopes of keeping the deer more centralized in my little patch of woods. Should I start in the off-season and...
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Canada Focus, Part I
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-- It’s a question many individuals ask when they retire: What will I do to keep busy? Dreams of hunting, fishing and travel ran rampant through my mind. I had been a deer hunter for 40 years, early in New Jersey then moving on to Maryland and Pen...
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