Monthly Archives: February 2013

How to Pattern your Shotgun

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Wild turkeys seem impossible to miss.  Look at any magazine and there’s a monster gobbler, just standing in the wide open spaces as still as a statue.  However, if you speak with enough (thruthful) hunters, they will admit that they … Continue reading →

The Vertical Food Plot

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Now the most widely planted chestnut tree in America, the blight-resistant Dunstan Chestnut tree bears nuts in only two to four years and produces more high quality nutrition per acre than any oak species or hybrid. It has a regular … Continue reading →

Stop Changing Your Oil

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Vehicle maintenance is critical to all sportsmen, especially if we take our rigs into difficult terrain, and the service needed to keep our horsepower primed and pumping can be expensive.  Despite changes in oil technology and engine performance, those we trust to … Continue reading →

How To Bag More Coyotes

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How to take more Predators Now’s a great time to call predators. With food supplies in limited by cold weather you may cause a wily coyote to let its guard down, plus you can do some early season turkey scouting … Continue reading →

Get in Shape for Turkey Season

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It’s almost Turkey Season and Tracy Breen over at Turkey Country Magazine adds to this blog with other tips to break from the winter doldrums many of us suffer.   Many of us who used to be lean and mean suddenly find … Continue reading →

Hot New Bows for 2013

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Archers have never had more choices in excellent arrow-launch options than 2013. Although it’s nearly impossible to test every bow and crossbow in a head to head competition, the following models deserve your serious consideration. Some are field test while … Continue reading →

Dale Earnhardt, The Hunter

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David Blanton, one of Earnhardt’s closest outdoor friends,  offers a glimpse into the private life of a passionate outdoorsman, a scenario very different than his iconic public image. I first met Dale in 1992 at a hunting lodge in Michigan … Continue reading →

Plan Now for Great Fall Hunts

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Here’s how to draw a Dream License on the West’s Best Public Land Public land hunting in the West is very different than the pumpkin army that Eastern hunters experience. The number of hunting licenses is strictly controlled so that … Continue reading →