Hunting

News & Tips: Must-have Hunting Knives This Fall
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Must-have Hunting Knives This Fall

Chances are with fall approaching you're noticing some gaps in your equipment inventory list or some items that might best be relegated to the gear graveyard. If you're in need of new game dressing…
News & Tips: Five Delicious Duck Recipes You're Sure to Love...
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Five Delicious Duck Recipes You're Sure to Love

I started hunting ducks late in life, but they occasionally showed up on the dinner table when I was a boy, gifts from duck hunting relatives. I did not like the ducks my mother and grandmother…
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Waterfowl Boat Options for Shallow Waters

Millions of ducks and geese come down the flyways each fall, just as they have done for eons. Likewise, thousands of waterfowl hunters lie in wait, hoping to coax a few of the magnificent birds…
News & Tips: Taking Tree Stand Safety Seriously
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Taking Tree Stand Safety Seriously

Two hunting seasons ago, I found myself doing a desperate and unexpected chin-up to pull myself back into the climber portion of my climbing tree stand — the platform had just slipped out from under…
News & Tips: Low Impact Deer Hunting
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Low Impact Deer Hunting

The key to growing, and for that matter, hunting mature bucks, can be boiled down to two words: "low" and "impact." Alone they mean little; together they are the Rosetta Stone of big buck hunting. If…
News & Tips: How to Read Three Types of Rub Signs
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How to Read Three Types of Rub Signs

It’s almost hunting season, and that means it’s time to clean your gun, overhaul your supplies and spruce up your treestand. We’ve put together three types of rub-signs that could help you bag that…
News & Tips: The Basics of Rangefinders and Why Hunters Should Use Them...
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The Basics of Rangefinders and Why Hunters Should Use Them

Today's laser rangefinders are so accurate, compact and affordable that no hunter — whether with rifle or bow — should ever be without one. Here's what you need to know to choose one that's right for…
News & Tips: Give Your Squirrel Rifle & Shooting Skills a Tune-up...
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Give Your Squirrel Rifle & Shooting Skills a Tune-up

When it comes to squirrel hunting, I'm a rifleman. Sure I see the practicality in using a shotgun, especially in the early season when the foliage is up and the squirrels are in the trees; but, the…
News & Tips: Cook Your Goose With These Three Recipes...
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Cook Your Goose With These Three Recipes

"You take them." "No, you take them." "But I took them last time." "That's OK. Take them anyway." "I'd rather not." "But I insist." "I'll be glad to take them if you all don't want 'em." "Whaaat?" A…
News & Tips: Wood Duck Wisdom
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Wood Duck Wisdom

Wood duck hunting has a special place in my heart. The first bird I ever shot was a drake woody that catapulted out of the pickerel weeds just ahead of my canoe. The memory of that duck, rising…
News & Tips: 5 Calling Tricks for Chase-Phase Bucks...
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5 Calling Tricks for Chase-Phase Bucks

Article by Bill Vaznis.In that frantic period just before the peak rut, when does are running in every direction from prying noses, calling bucks away from their playing-hard-to-get girlfriends may…
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Dall's Sheep Species Background

There are four subspecies of North American wild sheep Thinhorns which consist of the Dall’s and Stone’s sheep; and Bighorns which consist of the desert and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. More…