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By M.D. Johnson

If gobblers go call-shy, set up at their favorite dust bowl. Here’s what to look for and how to call one in. [ Read Full Post ]

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"Giant Iowa 8 Pointer"

Photo submitted by triplebeam1978

User Description: On January 5th 2013 during Iowa's muzzleloader season I was driving by my hunting spot after my morning hunt & seen a giant 8 point buck cross a corn field & bed in a small parcel of timber,so that evening I set up on that same cornfield he crossed in th am.Like a dream come true at 4:00 he came out and headed my way after about 15 minutes he stopped & I shot him.He grosses in the low 160's [ Read Full Post ]

By Dave Hurteau

I must drive marketing guys nuts. Their job is to get the hottest, newest, brand-spankinest stuff into my hands so I can be instantaneously bowled over by how wonderful it is and tell you folks all about it just before the product hits the shelves. Alas, I’m often a little slow. It sometimes takes me a while to fully grasp how I feel about this or that.

Take Bowtech’s 2012 Insanity CPXL. Last spring, I set one up, shot it a bunch, and told you all, right here, that I liked it just fine. And why not? There’s nothing not to like. Then I put the bow on the wall, where it has hung, doing exactly nothing, for about a year.   [ Read Full Post ]

By David Draper

This week’s Food Fight Friday features a couple of interesting reader submitted photos. It’s not often we get either crab or band-tailed pigeon on the Wild Chef blog, so I’m pretty excited to feature each here this week. I’m not sure there’s a clear winner here, so I’m going to stare at each picture a bit longer to work up an appetite. I suggest you do the same, then vote for whichever really gets you salivating. [ Read Full Post ]

By CJ Lotz

For the first time in 33 years a hunter has been allowed to import a black rhino trophy into the U.S. David K. Reinke, CEO of a laser jet printer parts wholesaler, tagged the animal in Namibia in 2009. He paid $215,000 for the hunt, including a $175,000 contribution to the Namibian government’s Game Products Trust Fund.

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By Bob Marshall

Sportsmen and other conservationists found another reason to value the Environmental Protection Agency and the rule of law Tuesday, when a federal appeals court unanimously upheld the agency’s right to regulate the permitting process for mountaintop mining operations – one of the most destructive mining activities ever for fish and wildlife.
 
The case involved the EPA’s decision to revoke a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit for The Spruce 1 Mine, the largest in West Virginia history, which would have buried some six miles of streams with tailings from the mountaintop. The EPA said the permit violated the Clean Water Act, but a lower court ruled the agency didn’t have the right to revoke a permit granted by the corps. [ Read Full Post ]

By David E. Petzal

That whooshing, gushing sound you heard last week—sort of like the spillways opening at Hoover Dam—was the collective bladder failure of everyone who rejoiced in the thought that this time, at long last, firearms owners were going to get a good dose of sensible gun control shoved up their collective fundament.

Manchin-Toomey did not get the votes, despite Michael Bloomberg’s money, the righteous exhortations of the New York Times, the arm-twisting of the Sandy Hook parents, and the impassioned speeches of both Obamas.

Ninety percent of the American people wanted this, everyone said, so how did it fail? That figure came up again and again, as sacred and immutable as anything that God said to Moses when he went up on the mountain. All but 10 percent of us, went the Revealed Word, wanted Manchin-Toomey. [ Read Full Post ]

By CJ Lotz

After Oregon residents complained of cougar sightings near playgrounds, school bus stops, and under one woman’s van, the Oregon House approved a bill that could overturn a ban on hunting cougars with hound dogs.

From the Oregonian:
"House Bill 2624 would allow individual counties to opt out of [a] statewide ban on the use of dogs to hunt cougars if voters approve. "

Rep. Sherrie Sprenger (R) helped champion the bill. “Something is out of balance when...a cougar is under her minivan,” she said.

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By Chad Love

A mountain lion season could be coming to the Cornhusker state under a proposal before the Nebraska Game and Fish Commission.

From this story on journalstar.com: 
Nebraska mountain lions -- having made a comeback over the past two decades after being gone for about a century -- now face the possibility of being hunted legally. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission is set to vote next month on draft regulations that would allow hunters to kill three mountain lions during two open seasons in the Pine Ridge area. "The commission intends to manage mountain lions like we do other game animals like deer, elk and bighorn sheep, and that may include a limited harvest," said Sam Wilson, mountain lion expert for Game and Parks. [ Read Full Post ]

By Joe Cermele

Yesterday I posted a story about a 12-year-old kid that beat a big bull shark on a hand line. Today I found another epic tale of youth versus monster fish. Nineteen-year-old Sterling Ellis of Houston, TX, is in remission from Hodgkin's lymphoma per this article on THV11.com, though he'll be undergoing a bone marrow transplant in the very near future. Now, if I'm not mistaken, the Make-A-Wish Foundation can set up almost anything you want...lunch with Jim Carrey, drum lessons with Tommy Lee, or perhaps a tour of the Playboy mansion. Sterling asked Make-A-Wish to take him big-game fishing in Hawaii, where he scored a 700-pound class marlin. I couldn't think of a finer choice. Good luck with the surgery, my friend.

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By Phil Bourjaily

Usually we deal with guns only, but every once in a while you come across a video that takes a Gun Nut approach to primitive weapons, and this is one of the best. Were bird arrow points for birds or deer? Only one way to find out...

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By Joe Cermele

Here's a fun story from Down Under that supports my theory that land-based Australian anglers are often a bit more rough-and-tumble than us. Check out this cliff fishing video and you'll see what I mean. Though Isaac Callaway didn't catch his shark while dangling off the edge of a cliff, he did score a near-five-foot bull on a hand line. The fish weighed about 90 pounds, which is how much 12-year-old Callaway weighs. According to the story in The Australian, this is actually Callaway's third hand line bull, but the biggest by far to date.

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