
Snacking on your food plot: Planting vegetation that’s fit for man or beast
At times I am so focused on this mission that I overlook the land’s ability to provide other rewards, like food for my family’s table.

At times I am so focused on this mission that I overlook the land’s ability to provide other rewards, like food for my family’s table.

At the hunting season’s start, wild turkeys are doing about the same thing no matter the weather in Minnesota: roosting, surviving, eating, breeding. Photoperiod (daylight length) drives the mating urge in male birds, and photoperiod

Some of my most memorable spring gobbler hunts occurred when I didn’t even have a shotgun in my hands. There’s no better feeling than taking a youngster or a non-hunting adult afield and introducing them

Bill Koelpin, Jr., didn’t have to look hard to find a little artistic inspiration. All he had to do was ask his father, Bill Sr.
“My father was a world-champion carver, painter, and bronze

I’m still capable each hunting and fishing season of making a new blunder, one I didn’t even think was possible, but that’s just part of the game.
In the interest of helping accelerate the

It really depends on how old you, and the sum of shekels in your pocket, as to what you’ll take away from this story.
If you’re 12 and under, you’ll likely get one set

By time of the year, I’ve hung up my ice-fishing gear and am getting my tackle ready for the open-water season. While it’s still cold outside, I like to sit in my garage and take

I think turkey calls are a lot like guitars. A good guitar player can coax a sweet sound out of any decent guitar. And a good turkey caller knows how to run a call.

I had been dreading this day. Approximately 50 acres of the little cabin property is enrolled in the Managed Forest Law (MFL) program.
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