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News & Tips: How to Read Three Types of Rub Signs
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How to Read Three Types of Rub Signs

It’s almost hunting season, and that means it’s time to clean your gun, overhaul your supplies and spruce up your treestand. We’ve put together three types of rub-signs that could help you bag that…
News & Tips: The Basics of Rangefinders and Why Hunters Should Use Them...
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The Basics of Rangefinders and Why Hunters Should Use Them

Today's laser rangefinders are so accurate, compact and affordable that no hunter — whether with rifle or bow — should ever be without one. Here's what you need to know to choose one that's right for…
News & Tips: Give Your Squirrel Rifle & Shooting Skills a Tune-up...
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Give Your Squirrel Rifle & Shooting Skills a Tune-up

When it comes to squirrel hunting, I'm a rifleman. Sure I see the practicality in using a shotgun, especially in the early season when the foliage is up and the squirrels are in the trees; but, the…
News & Tips: Classic Lures: The MirrOlure
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Classic Lures: The MirrOlure

Harold LeMaster was a high school student in Kankakee, Ill., during the Depression. While walking home after school one day he came upon a fallen walnut tree. Examining the wood, he was intrigued…
News & Tips: Cook Your Goose With These Three Recipes...
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Cook Your Goose With These Three Recipes

"You take them." "No, you take them." "But I took them last time." "That's OK. Take them anyway." "I'd rather not." "But I insist." "I'll be glad to take them if you all don't want 'em." "Whaaat?" A…
News & Tips: Walleyes on Deep Rock Structure
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Walleyes on Deep Rock Structure

On a lot of walleye waters, particularly shield lakes (but some reservoirs as well), a good number of walleyes relate to deep rock structure from summer well into fall. We did a show on Lake of the…
News & Tips: Wood Duck Wisdom
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Wood Duck Wisdom

Wood duck hunting has a special place in my heart. The first bird I ever shot was a drake woody that catapulted out of the pickerel weeds just ahead of my canoe. The memory of that duck, rising…
News & Tips: 5 Calling Tricks for Chase-Phase Bucks...
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5 Calling Tricks for Chase-Phase Bucks

Article by Bill Vaznis.In that frantic period just before the peak rut, when does are running in every direction from prying noses, calling bucks away from their playing-hard-to-get girlfriends may…
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Dall's Sheep Species Background

There are four subspecies of North American wild sheep Thinhorns which consist of the Dall’s and Stone’s sheep; and Bighorns which consist of the desert and Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. More…
News & Tips: Create a Happy Teenage Camper
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Create a Happy Teenage Camper

"Set the hook!" I barked, as the bluegill pulled my daughter's bobber under. With a quick jerk the fish was caught. She battled the panfish to shore where I took a few photos and presented a kiss to…
News & Tips: Basics of Launching a Boat (video)
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Basics of Launching a Boat

Boat launch activity can range from placid to pandemonium — or anywhere in between. Line-ups and on-the-ramp mishaps can send impatient individual's stress-levels soaring; conversely a vacant launch…
News & Tips: Yosemite's Rim Fire: How Long Will It Take to Recover?...
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Yosemite's Rim Fire: How Long Will It Take to Recover?

For outdoor enthusiasts everywhere, positive news about the containment of the massive Rim Fire that swept Yosemite National Park for weeks in August—demanding the presence of more than 4,000…