By Dave Hurteau

From The Southeast Texas Record:

[Texarkana hunter] Dustin Stringer [has]  filed a product liability lawsuit against Ameristep Corp.

Stringer states that on Sept 28, 2008, while climbing into his deer stand that he caught his right arm on a Grizzly Tree Step causing "serious and permanent injuries."

The complaint alleges the tree step was in a defective condition, which "rendered it unreasonably dangerous even though it was being used for its intended purpose."

By Scott Bestul

Iowa has had, for the last several years, one of the priciest non-resident deer tags going. Still, in the seasons I was lucky enough to draw (it is typically a 3-year wait for an NR bow tag), I gladly paid the $400-plus fee. In my experience, there are few places better than Iowa if you’re a whitetail nut with big deer on the brain. Plus, I’m fortunate enough to have a couple of good buddies that a) live there b) own fine whitetail ground, and c) let me hunt. Honestly, I go there just as much for the camaraderie as I do the world-class hunting.

By Scott Bestul

I appreciate the dozens of entries into last week’s “geography quiz” post, in which I asked you to identify the location of the whitetail harvest photo, using the hunter’s camouflage as your only clue. Answers were not only (literally) all over the map, they also included some humor…Thanks to Deep Woods”who surmised that the fine buck had been “shot in the chest.” I’m still chuckling!

By Scott Bestul