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Tom Bahti

Tom Bahti: A little redemption hunting Coues deer

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

It was the week after Thanksgiving in 2019. My cousin Kurt Bahti and I had packed into a remote basin in the Santa Rita mountains south of Tucson to hunt Coues deer.
A 2-inch deluge on Thanksgiving Day had turned the trail sloppy and the intermittent streams into torrents, but we got into the bench above the creek that afternoon and set up camp as the weather changed and some snow began to fall.

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Tom Bahti: Some thoughts about my favorite hunting gear

Featured, Features, Gear & Gadgets, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

Everyone asks me about my favorite pieces and brands of outdoor gear. Well, OK, actually no one has ever asked me that question, but I thought I’d throw out my choices just to get people thinking and maybe stir the pot a bit.
Full disclosure: I have no affiliation with any of the brands or products that I mention in this piece. They are just items of equipment or clothing that I’ve found to be my preference(s) over a long time working and fooling around in the outdoors.

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Tom Bahti: Know when to ‘lighten up’ a bit when it comes to hunting guns

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We all remember when we were younger – in our 20s, 30s, and 40s. We were still panther quick and leather tough, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Unfortunately, age catches up with all of us, and nature always bats last. As I’m now closer to 80 than to 70, I’ve begun to appreciate lighter firearms more and more.

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Tom Bahti: Hunting camps are special places shared with special people

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Hunting camps are all different, but they are also all the same. They are places where the adventures begin, and that life-long love affair with hunting and the outdoors gets its start.
It might be a log cabin, a tar-paper shack, an old farm house, some tents, or a pop-up camper, but they all share similarities. This is where the newbies learn about camp etiquette and chores, listen to the old-timers and, hopefully, begin to cement their legacy into a camp culture that will last them through the decades.

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Tom Bahti: Discovering where the goose music begins is an eye-opening experience

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

There’s pretty much an entire generation of Wisconsin waterfowlers who never dealt with the extremely conservative season structures of the mid- and late-1980s with a 30-day duck season with a three-bird limit, and restrictive Canada goose quotas that required careful monitoring, reporting, and enforcement.
Drought had a terrible grip on the prairies of the Dakotas and Canada. Goose harvest quotas were driven by annual production estimates along the Hudson Bay lowlands of Manitoba and southern James Bay in Ontario.

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Tom Bahti: You can get well in a hurry on sharptails

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

It was my friend and writer Tom Davis who once told me: “When you’re hunting sharp-tailed grouse, you can get well in a hurry.” I’m not sure that he came up with that saying himself, as he may have mentioned that he heard it from another prairie grouse hunter at a different time, but I’ll just give him credit for it. Truth is truth.

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Tom Bahti: A list of some outdoor truisms

Featured, Features, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

For several decades, I’ve been writing a brief column of “truisms” for Intelligent Tinkering, the publication of the Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society. It’s just a silly list of wit and wisdom that I’ve borrowed, stolen or plagiarized with impunity from other sources.

Such pearls of wisdom as, “Leaders should not get too far in front of their troops or they will get shot in the ass,” or, “Elect clowns and expect a circus,” make it into print. You get the idea … .
I got to thinking the other day that there are a handful of these truisms that relate to the outdoor pursuits that we all enjoy. Let’s take a look a few.

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