Bow Hunting Grand Slam 2007

By Mac Moad

The first week of October was finally here.  The first three days were spent in my favorite stand watching 3 raccoons in which I had named Larry, Curly, and Moe.  The mother raccoon was slightly bigger than the two younger ones, and seemed curious to every movement surrounding them.  The days here in eastern Oklahoma in October were still in the 80’s with mosquitoes buzzing everywhere.  I was wondering if it were still to hot to hunt and questioned myself again over and over.  Each day so far, I had hunted morning and evening with only a few does showing up. Read more

Picture This: Youth Hunt Day

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NWTF Preparing for Wild Turkey’s Future with Management Plan

EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Since 1973, the National Wild Turkey Federation and its dedicated volunteers have worked with wildlife agencies to help successfully restore wild turkey populations in nearly all suitable habitat in North America. As the need to trap and transfer wild turkeys becomes less necessary, it is critically important to look toward the future of North America’s greatest game birds and work to make sure that future is bright.
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Humane Solution Found For A Gnawing Problem

Beavers in Groton get reprieve, thanks to an ‘ingenious’ contraption

Water flows freely through the three pipes of a beaver impeder on Wednesday as Skip Hilliker fastens part of the device around a breach made in a beaver dam on a pond in Pequot Woods in Groton. Hilliker and a crew from the Humane Society of the United States installed the device to ease flooding caused by the beavers’ dam.
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Record-setting whitetail mount stolen from Iowa hunter

Brian Andrews, left, and his dad, Randy Andrews, of Independence, Iowa, with the 26-point mounted whitetail before it was stolen from the Andrews home in 2004.

What began as a story about a young Iowa hunter taking a world-class whitetail deer with outdated archery equipment has evolved into one with a price tag and a plea for help.
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Edgerton man gains ethical hunter honor

MADISON — A 60- to 70-yard shot last fall not only brought down a big doe for Dennis Carothers Sr. of Edgerton but also the Department of Natural Resources Ethical Hunter Award.

Carothers was hunting in southeast Dane County the day after Thanksgiving when he saw three whitetail deer on a neighbor’s land. Fifteen minutes later, he heard a shot. Awhile later, he saw three deer appear back on the land he was hunting. Carothers noticed one of the deer was limping and a brought it down with a round from his 12 gauge.
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Burnsville man kills record turkey

BURNSVILLE – Jerrell Keele knew his turkey had a pretty good beard on him when he shot him last month. He could see the black hairs hanging from the gobbler’s neck when he shot him from 37 yards away.

But the 67-year-old Burnsville resident didn’t realize that the 17.28-pound turkey actually had seven beards and scored enough points to make it a state record in the nontypical division.
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Hunter wanted funeral to be a blast

Terry wanted to go out with a bang. The avid outdoorsman had one dying wish: to have his remains scattered over his favorite hunting grounds. But he wanted no gentle goodbye.

So, according to his will, his ashes were packed into shotgun shells. Soon, a couple of dozen pals will raise their firearms, pull the triggers and thunder Terry’s ashes across a lake.

“He wanted to go out hunting,” says pal Mike.
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Exotic animal found in Milwaukie

MILWAUKIE, Ore. – A couple of Milwaukie High School students made a bizarre discovery on the way to school Tuesday morning.
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Close Encounter with a Magical Beast

My husband spotted the white deer one evening last fall. “Quick. Come quick,” he said from the dining room window. I missed it, just as I missed seeing Santa every Christmas eve when my father would swear he was flying past my bedroom window in his airborne sleigh.

I was just as skeptical about the existence of a white deer. Then, a few weeks after the encounter, my daughter and her friend saw it crossing our road on a fogbound night. They described it as ghostly, but I knew then that it was real.
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