Fifth consecutive weekend run to Illinois, this time a bit longer, Saturday through Tuesday, and I’ve yet to see anything that would even meet Pope & Young standards, not to mention my 140″ minimum…pretty pathetic. I’m disappointed with the lease…
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As I drove to one of my public land spots on the afternoon of November 7th, I was only mildly hopeful that I’d have any success at all due to the unseasonably warm weather. In fact, I made the mile…
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My wife, Chris, daughter Layne, and I were at our cabin in Northern Minnesota during the weekend for the opening of rifle season. Our place isn’t real good during gun season if we get a warm spell and this year…
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Last December I was bowhunting my property during a cold spell which I’d figured would have the deer on a feeding frenzy during daylight hours. I was hunting close to a cut-over cornfield that showed some fresh tracks in the…
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After a rough first half of the season, James Squires (WIarcher) scored on a nice Wisconsin 10 point on 10-30-06. Not long after daylight on his Peppin County lease, James noticed a familiar buck coming from a saddle on the…
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Up until a week or so ago I was seeing quite a few small bucks and a couple does. One of which I managed to harvest and do my part in keeping the doe population down. The next day my…
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Crazy Dan and I stayed with Andrae this weekend. We hunted some public ground and Andrae hunted his lease. Saturday morning Dan and I returned from scouting to find Andrae’s truck backed up to his garage. “Hmmm… I wonder if…
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I’ll put this as lightly as I can: I was unpleasantly surprised to hear of 2 youth hunters and their dads hunting my lease this weekend for the 2 day youth Illinois antlerless only gun hunt. Apparently there was a…
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Storm clouds were forming, and the threat of rain was very real. “What do I care,” I thought, “I’m not made of sugar.” I broke the speed limit as I drove to my hunting area for the start of Minnesota’s…
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Just a quick update for the week. Michigan’s opener is approaching, but this weekend will find me in Buffalo County again. I’m looking to shoot one more doe so I can earn my buck tag for gun season and not…
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I recently got permission to hunt a farm close to home and tonight I went in there cold to check it out. I haven’t been able to scout this property before since I just got permission to hunt it a…
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What started out with a rain soaked opening morning, ended in one of the most perfect evenings a bowhunter can have on stand. Warm temps, rain, and wind plagued us opening day, but the Blood Brothers still managed to whack…
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It was my second evening on stand here in Wisconsin on this opening weekend of the 2006 bow season. I had succeeded in earning the right to hunt bucks this evening by successfully harvesting a doe the evening before. The…
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It was late September, one of my favorite times of year to hunt. I was in a familiar set, a large oak tree standing tall over a good set of hardwoods. My spirits were high as the clear sky’s sun…
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End of July now, and my buddy Dome (aka Dan DesRosiers) tagged along with me this past weekend to scout the new lease I have in Buffalo County Wisconsin. Dome will be gun hunting it this fall…. I’ll be bow…
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