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2016 Hot Gear: Cool, New Deer Hunting Ammo has Arrived
As well as match ammo for long-range and competition shooters, Hornady has rolled out a strong lineup of new ammunition for 2017 including additions to its popular deer hunting lineup of rifle cartridges and slugs. Hornady’s American Whitetail series of deer-specific ammo grows this year with the popular 6.5 Creedmoor, available with the 129-grain InterLock…
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Hot Hunting Tips: Don’t Make These Mistakes Shooting from a Ground Blind
Generally speaking, using a treestand or ground blind to hunt out of can provide many benefits to the crossbow hunter. First and foremost, it increases your opportunity to get within shooting distance of game, which in most cases would be 40 to 50 yards or less. Then the structures also keep us out of…
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How Deer Survive In Hunting Season–Utilizes Keen Senses to be survival
White-tailed deer who have a knack for evading hunters are the especially mature ones. While some hunters attribute this elusive ability to the animal’s sixth sense, the reality is that the whitetail’s keen senses account for the animal’s woodland wizardry. Here we’ll takes a closer look at these sensory abilities that allow deer to…
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Anti Hunting: Arguments Made to Support States’ Rights in Wolf Case
The Great Lakes Wolf situation has taken numerous twists and turns, capturing the attention of hunters, anti-hunters, enviro-supporters, the judiciary, legislators and even Joe Lunchbucket folks as it wends its way through the court system. Neither side — the one for states’ rights and the protect-the-wolves side — are budging. After several rulings, the latest…
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Hunting Tips:Success With Blind Ambition Fuels Crossbow
As we all known, weather is one of those uncontrollable variables that can really influence the outcome of your hunt. When peak rut hits, deer hunters want to be in the woods all day. However, steady rain and temperatures in the high 30s make that already daunting task seem nearly unbearable. The best you can…
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2016 Hot Gear: Easton 6mm FMJ Available in Retro XX75 Autumn Orange
Return back to the dark ages when we had landline telephones, vehicles with triangular windows for air vents and high-low clicker buttons on the floor and three television networks (four if you counted PBS), we had orange arrows. Its about the late 1970s, my father started doing a little bowhunting and then I got one…
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Six Hunting Tips for Better Scent Control
It was hard to hide my juvenile excitement as the UPS truck was backing into my driveway as well as a kid at Christmas. Everybody loves getting things in the mail, and I was especially excited for this package. This season’s Scent Blocker order was sure to not disappoint. I am a loyal scent control…
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EXCLUSIVE: Peak Rut Forecast for Southern Deer Hunters
It seemed odd to be so excited about deer hunting at this time of year as Christmas lights were the only glow during the dark early morning drive to the stand. Growing up in the Northeast. My entire life had revolved around November as the “days to hunt.” But there I was, heading to a…
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The Life Of Cabin Woodside
There is always a certain level of heightened anticipation when that Thursday morning rolls around, the Thursday morning before the Wisconsin gun deer season. I’ve spent the last several days putting all my hunting gear together (of course, most of it last night). The past three days were spent shopping for the food for all…
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How to Do a Grid Search to Recover Your Deer
We all hope for short and easy bloodtrails that lead right to our trophy. But when things look grim in your deer recovery efforts, try the grid search. Here’s how to do it. There was a raw dampness hanging in the air that cold November morning. The season had been long and frustrating, especially after…