The hunting part of your quest is now over and your trophy is lying on the ground. After you have completed your “happy dance” and before you start to field dress the animal it is important to take time to capture the memory of the day on film. Some hunters give little thought to this important part of the hunt. I look at it this way, most avid hunters will have plenty of opportunities to s...
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"REACHING OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS THROUGH OUR NETWORK OF OVER 350 WEB SITES"
HEADLINE ARTICLE
August 21, 2008
Do you hunt public land? Has this happened to you? You are hunting your favorite spot high up in a ravine. Normally this is a productive area but for a couple of days now it seems like the elk have just vanished. They were here last year, you tell yourself. What is going on? As you glass down toward a neighboring ranch, you see a cowboy riding the inside of the fence line. At the edge of a small clearing he stops. This is the middle of bow season, but you watch in horror as he unlimbers a lever action rifle from the scabbard and points downhill. He doesn\'t seem t
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We had talked with Werner from Afrihunt Safaris for many years when attending the SCI NE Michigan Chapter banquet and finally were able to jump at the chance to join him and his fiance at their farm/business in July 2009 for our "huntingmoon"! We had 7 animals to take over 7 days ...
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Processing a Deer, a Step by Step Pictorial
Step 1. Harvest a nice fat de...
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Early spring waterfowl surveys present mixed pictureFloods not expected to have significant impact on breeding successMADISON - Variable spring habitat conditions observed in the United States and Canada present a mixed picture for the fall 2008 waterfowl seasons in Wisconsin, according to the state wildlife officials. Preliminary information shows areas ranging from very good wet...
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Wisconsin Spring turkey hunters register another record turkey harvestFall season permit applications due August 1MADISON - Preliminary figures show that hunters set yet another spring turkey harvest record, registering 52,814 turkeys during Wisconsin's 2008 spring wild turkey season. This is a 3 percent increase from the 2007 spring harvest of 51,306 birds. The statewide hunter suc...
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MADISON " Preliminary results of a two-year cooperative study of Wisconsin
black bears suggest that the population may be two times or more larger
than currently thought. Biologists stress that the new estimate comes
from a half finished study and may change when data from the second
year of the study are analyzed. Early results are encouraging, however,
and indicate Wisconsin conti...
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Chronic
wasting disease (CWD) was not detected in samples taken from
hunter-killed deer during the state's 2007 hunting season, according to
Dr. Walt Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian. In
2007, 3,800 samples from hunter-killed deer were tested, and CWD was
not detected. This marked the fifth year for testing hunter-killed
deer. In total, nearly 18,100...
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Wildlife,
public health and food safety experts from five states will meet in
Minnesota next week for the purpose of helping regulators, hunters and
processors better understand the implications of lead fragments in
hunter-harvested deer.The meeting, hosted by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR), will be held Wednesday, June 4, in Bloomington.This
is th...
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After having listened to the howling wind and torrential rain all night long my expectations were poor for the morning turkey hunt. When the alarm thundered next to my ear I was devastated to discover that the temperature had dropped twenty-five degrees overnight and the wind had not stopped blowing. The only optimistic part of the morning is that the rain had subsided. At thirty-five degrees I fi...
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Being safe while turkey hunting is as simple as 1,2,3... IF you take
the time to think before you act. Dont just consider how to best bag
your gobbler, you need to also think about the safety aspects of each
situation. Keep these Wild Turkey hunting tips in mind while in the
field this spring for a safer turkey season for all.
1. ...
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My turkey hunting partner Dave asked me to take his buddy "Old Codger" out this afternoon and help him end an unlucky streak that has lasted a very long time and get him his 1st bird. We walked threw the woods striking yelps every couple hundred yards till we got a gobble and set up.. It was a hot tom and I could tell it was running in by how fast the gobbles were coming towards us... I set up ten...
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