Teen son enjoys personal-best bass fishing during winter trip
Hunter ended up with 17 Florida bass, and they were all pretty good ones.
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Gun dog tips: Thinking ahead to spring puppy-purchasing season
Right now is the time to research litters and settle on a puppy.
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Scout now for next season’s buck
The best months for post-season scouting are January, February and March.
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Choosing a reliable shotshell for upland hunting
It’s amazing what quail hunting in thick timber does for your ability to hit a much larger bird with nothing between it and the end of your gun barrel.
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Rooster roundup: snow and the best ring-necked pheasant hunting of the season
As crops disappear, engage the dog in a search for upland birds in traditional public lands cover like cattail sloughs and brushy thickets.
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Five steps to taking trophy whitetails
By John Sloan It was all wrong. It was opening day, 95 degrees, with a full moon. All the articles by famous writers said it should be terrible daytime hunting. To make it worse, I had never seen the tree in which I was sitting until 14 hours previously. So, when the seventh buck walked
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Questions and answers: bowhunting whitetails
By Bob Fratzke This is a partial list of the questions most commonly asked over the years at the conclusion of my deer scouting and bowhunting seminars. Can you move at all on a treestand? Definitely, but it has to be controlled. This is the only way you can remain on stand several hours without
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Deer hunters should be sensible about scents
These days, we deer hunters have more options for scent control and scent tactics than we’ve ever had. The industry is full of products, from cover and attractant scents – some of which could potentially come off the shelves due to proposed chronic wasting disease regulations in New York – to electronic scent control used
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October hunting beyond whitetails: calling fall turkeys
The key to a successful Midwestern autumn wild turkey season is plenty of yelping and a feeding-hen decoy.
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