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Single or treble hooks for fishing: Which one are you going with?
Hypothetical situation: You’re stranded, starving, and close to death from lack of food.
You’ve just found some fishing gear and it includes two identical fishing lures, identical except one of them has a single

Get a gobbler going this spring with a barred owl call
The barred owl “shock” call is a good choice when trying to strike up a bird or roost a gobbler for the next morning’s hunt. This locator tactic also works well during other times, especially

Small parcels can yield big results for gobblers
As the morning mist began to clear, a tom hammered from his roost. Perched on a large hackberry tree limb in a finger of woods running up into a cut cornfield, the big bird was

Why do some deer species retain spots in adulthood?
Biologists have spent a century or more pondering why organisms look the way they do. Two common principle ideas include camouflage and mate attraction.
We thought that stripes on zebras were to confuse predators,

Perfect broadhead flight means finding the correct arrow; here’s how to do it
Enter an online archery forum and request people’s opinions on the best hunting broadhead.
You’re going to get a long list of strong thoughts. You may even start a fight.
Are fixed blades

An archer’s guide to outsmarting the wind
Dealing with wind currents has to be at the top of a bowhunter’s checklist when choosing optimal stand locations. Failing to take wind direction, or hunting poor wind direction, will alert deer to a hunter’s

Steve Sarley: What to choose when it’s time to hook up your reel with fresh line
Happy March! What the heck happened? Did I sleep through the ice-fishing season?
It was the absolute shortest hard-water season I can ever remember. It’s a tough break for those guides and tackle and

Early open-water walleye action on rivers about to heat up
Typically, following a long, cold, and snowy winter, many anglers yearn for a chance to fish open water. Unfortunately, for those who love the ice, it was one of the mildest winters I can remember.

Interested in traveling for a turkey hunt? Here’s what to know
We’re just a shade over a month away from the turkey opener in Minnesota. When it begins, thousands of hunters will take to the spring woods in search of a cooperative gobbler.
Many of