Picture This!

With all the great stories, equipment, adventures and people out there I thought it would be great to get some pictures.  If you have any pictures from a hunt, your gear or best of all you geared up that would be great.  If you send in pictures I will post on our site as well as putting some of the best pictures on all our sites.

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Looking For Rugged Midwest Hunting In The Northeast?

Try Vermont’s Green Mountain Range and Northwoods Outdoor Adventures

By Blaine Cardilli

Plans for making this particular hunting trip had been on the table for three months and although we knew from the website what the basic lodge was going to look like, nothing could have prepared us for what we actually saw when we pulled up. Stepping from the truck, dusty from many miles up long and winding dirt roads, we rounded the front corner of Duplissey Lodge where we were graciously met by Steve and Dan Barbour, our hosts and the owners of Northwoods Outdoor Adventures. My partner, Orrin Parker, and I were on a working hunt for a national outdoor tv show at the time, and were anxious to see what Steve and Dan had to offer us in the way of turkeys. Read more

Connecticut Activists Still Pushing For Deer Population Reductions To Ease Lyme Disease

Dr. Georgina Scholl appears to be spearheading the movement by two very well organized and vocal groups that have had it with the threats of Lyme disease and want something done about it. The Connecticut Coalition to Eradicate Lyme Disease and the Fairfield County Municipal Deer Management Alliance believe the way to achieve this goal is to reduce whitetail populations from around 60 or more per square mile down to around 8 or 10 per square mile.

Scholl was to have met with Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s chief of staff on Wednesday to discuss the issue. Read more

Lost Hunter’s Ordeal. Is It Too Unbelievable?

I may get ridiculed for some of what I am about to write but I have to at least ask the questions that I’m sure many of us have asked. First, let me say that I am extremely happy that 53-year old Steven Wright of Woodford, Vermont, who was lost in the Maine woods near Tumbledown Mountain during a recent hunting triop, was found safe and has since recovered.

Wright was hunting this area with two other buddies during a snowstorm. When Wright decided it was time to head back to the truck and meet up with his companions, a series of events caused him to spend three days and two nights in the woods. Read more

The Shadow Buck

By Denny L. Vasquez

 

It was dry, dusty and warm for December in this part of the country. And the so-called weather experts were calling for a continuation of last summer’s dry spell and unseasonably, warm weather. Some even predicted that we might be in the clutches of the worst drought that the Lone Star state had seen in 20 years. So as we sat there watching the little dust devils dancing up and down the ranch road upon which our deer stand sat, my son and I began to wonder if we would see any of the monster deer that the south Texas brush country has become famous for. It was the day after Christmas 1999, which usually means cold, windy conditions and there should have been a lot more moisture in the air at this time of year. Read more

Maine Moose Hunt 2006

By Jay S. English

So I guess it all starts with that magic morning when you get up just a little bit earlier than usual and then hit the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife website to see the results of the Maine state moose lottery drawing.

Okay, so you’ve been applying and dutifully sending in your application fees for like twenty some odd years and haven’t been picked yet.
Don’t matter, this is THE YEAR ( or so you think ). Read more

My First “Big Buck”

By Richard Julian

Maine Firearms Deer Season 2004
11/15/04

 

The morning started out where we had six of us wanting to hunt together, but due to Maine’s laws on party size we decided to split up into two groups of three. Being the first day out for most of us, we were really just trying to locate some good spots to hunt. My dad, brother and our friend Randy decided to check out a block of woods near “4-corners”. My friend Aime, Kris and I decided to still hunt through a section of woods we call “the Blue Line”. The Blue Line had been cut a while back and it has grown up into a thick forest of Beeches on the east side of the ridge and turning to a nice cedar swamp on the west side. The Beech trees were so thick I was sweated up in no time at all and very discouraged: any deer would hear me a mile away. Kris called on the radio to say he had jumped a big doe and that it was headed my way; of course I never saw or heard that deer.

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Smelting

By A. Sayward Lamb

A. Sayward Lamb is an outdoor writer and published author. He writes for U.S. Hunting Today and Maine Fishing Today.

When I think of spring I think of smelting, because it is a ritual that I have participated in since I was a boy. I cannot remember when I did not go smelting, so I must have started at a very young age. Smelts are a small, anadromous fish, which travel in schools, and are found in both fresh and salt water. The spawning runs for salt-water smelts generally occur during the late winter along the coastal bays and tidal rivers. Fresh water smelts generally begin to make their spawning runs about the time the ice breaks away from the shorelines of inland waters, and can last from a few days in small bodies of water, to as long as two weeks or more in large inland lakes. Read more

10 Reasons I Love Dove Hunting

By Keith “Catfish” Sutton

Keith Sutton
15601 Mountain Drive
Alexander, AR 72002
501-847-9643
catfishdude@sbcglobal.net

10 Reasons I Love Dove Hunting
By Keith “Catfish” Sutton

Headline: The author, an experienced upland hunter, tells why mourning doves are, for him, the most favored of all game animals.

“Behind you! Look behind you!” Read more