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Calling it a season

There comes a point in the spring gobbler season when you realize it’s over, at least as far as your hunting schedule is concerned. It happens to me every spring, and that May 31 season-closing

Highs and lows in the turkey woods

Yeah, the turkey I took this season was pretty big. But it came close to not happening. And not just on that morning as I sat propped up against the tree, straining to hold the

Women important to the future

Score another one for the ladies. Christa Saunderson of Ransomville showed up the guys during the spring edition of the 2011 Lake Ontario Counties Trout and Salmon Derby when she kicked butt on a 27-pound,

The evolution of a turkey hunter

In recent years I’ve become convinced more than ever that experience may be the biggest factor contributing to success in the spring turkey woods, and if that’s the case then by the time I’m 138

Fish sleep in

It’s just not as easy as the normal-day alarm clock; the one that I can reach over and pound for another nine minutes of quiet, if not deep, relaxing rest. At first, it’s a quiet

The Turkey Hunting Obsession

Besides being a passionate bowhunter, I’m just as passionate and devoted to spring turkey hunting. Bowhunting is fun, but by nature it’s stealthy business. Avoiding detection by a whitetail’s nose is always the first order

Getting there not always easy

The Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers held its Spring Cast and Blast in the Lake Barkley Region in Western Kentucky April 19-21. My original plan was to drive the 12-hour trip, affording me the

Spring arrives, Niagara style, with a boom!

The sun was out but there was a distinct chill in the air. On the Niagara frontier, things can change overnight quite literally thanks to a manmade anomaly known as the ice boom. This controversial

A trip to the city

Every once in a while – I try to make it down every month – I head down the road to Albany for the Conservation Fund Advisory Board’s monthly meeting. It’s really not a bad

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