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News & Tips: How to Create a Mineral Lick for Deer
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How to Create a Mineral Lick for Deer

With deer seasons closed, there are lots of habitat alterations you can make that will improve the health of the whitetail herd in your area. One of the easiest and most rewarding is to create a…
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Turkey Hunting 101

When it comes to spring turkey hunting, getting out of bed and into the woods early is critical to your success. Turkeys are most vocal at dawn, so when the light is still dim it is often possible to…
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How to Plan for a Turkey's Primary Defense

Because their great vision is their primary defense, turkeys feel very secure where they can see well and far. They frequently feed in pastures and meadows and gobblers love to strut their stuff out…
News & Tips: Change Things Up This Fishing Season
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Change Things Up This Fishing Season

Fishing is a sport we all love. For most, it is not only a hobby  but a true passion. But like anything, we can often become stuck in a rut, doing the "same old" each week, uninspired to try…
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Tools To Get The Job Done

The main part of my seminar season is over, and it’s time to go fishing! Yes, I’ll squeeze in a turkey hunt, as well, but right now after this past winter, I’m ready to pursue anything that has fins…
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Springtime Means Turkey Time

If turkey season opened tomorrow, would you be ready? Have you been out shooting your bow or making sure your shotgun is patterned? How about your turkey calls, camo clothes, boots, decoys and…
News & Tips: First-Aid Kit: Don't Leave Home Without It...
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First-Aid Kit: Don't Leave Home Without It

The first day of spring has officially sprung for this year. For thousands of campers that take the winter camping season off, it's a reminder to open up camping gear bags and complete any…
News & Tips: A Buying Guide for Choosing the Best Turkey Hunting Blinds...
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A Buying Guide for Choosing the Best Turkey Hunting Blinds

There was a time when hunting blinds were a luxury. Making a blind was difficult work: building the framework, cutting foliage to match the area and securing the foliage to the frame — not to mention…
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Off-Season Crankbait Maintenance

By the end of a fishing season, it’s a pretty good bet that your crankbait boxes are in need of some serious attention. Sorting the baits according to style, depth range and color will ensure you’ll…
News & Tips: The Yucatan Loop Tarpon Adventure
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The Yucatan Loop Tarpon Adventure

If you draw a line straight, West to East, across the Yucatan Peninsula, about halfway down the map, you would connect Campeche on the West with Ascension Bay on the East. Cpt. Miguel Encalada now…
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Catch & Release Issues for Ice Fishing

Anyone who knows me understands that one of my true passions when it comes to the sport of muskie fishing is teaching the virtues of catch and release. While I have covered this topic up one side and…
News & Tips: Evolution of a Hunter
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Evolution of a Hunter

I would have never thought that on Dec. 26, of all days, I would come face to face with my nemesis. The buck I'd been hunting for the last 90 days shows up at one o’clock in the afternoon, broadside…