
Play the wind to get your gobbler this spring
Perusing the hunting section of a local farm store one spring day, I asked the associate where the scent free soap and sprays were. “Man, you know turkeys can’t smell you, don’t you?” he said.

Perusing the hunting section of a local farm store one spring day, I asked the associate where the scent free soap and sprays were. “Man, you know turkeys can’t smell you, don’t you?” he said.

We’ve all heard aggressive turkey calling – on TV, sitting next to a hunting friend, or sometimes even in the woods just after fly-down as two hens dish out an array of insults toward one

Should you own a bullet drop compensator (BDC) scope? Maybe, maybe not.
Dialed in, it can be a hunter’s dream, offering the potential for an accurate 200-yard shot with a rifle sighted in at

Debates over what age puts a fisherman – or a fish scientist – over the proverbial hill will never be solidly settled.
But knowing when to call a muskie “old” is elementary. Or is

Bluegill bite strong, channel cats biting statewide. A look at the Illinois fishing report on May 10, 2024.

Largemouth bass fishing is synonymous with many things in America’s freshwater fishing culture.
Tricked out specialty boats that scream second mortgage. Tournament anglers dressed like walking advertisements. Slick, glossy magazines devoted to the craft.

While the odds that a fresh, new federal Farm Bill will have been established by the time an extension to the current bill expires this fall are debatable, conservation groups nonetheless expressed approval of recent

Aristotle (384-322 BC) and other early Greek astronomers thought that the Earth was stationary and at the center of the universe with the Sun and other planets rotating around it. Historians tell us that this

Scott Kovarovics, executive director of the Izaak Walton League of America, has been with the conservation organization for nearly two decades.
Kovarovics, 54, came to the IWLA in 2008 in the position of conservation
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