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I know some of the best shed hunters on the planet, and they don\u2019t get them all, either. But we can all get better. Through a combination of hard work and smarter searching, you can start to close that gap between the number of sheds on the ground and the number you actually find. Here are 10 tips for making this spring\u2019s shed hunt your best ever. 1. Wait for it. Once a clean 10-pointer, this buck is now down to five. Drury Outdoors It\u2019s natural to want to get started early, especially in areas where shed hunting is a competition sport. But if you want the most antlers for your efforts, wait until you know the majority of bucks have dropped both sides. Observe hot food sources from afar and keep trail cams out in popular feeding and travel areas. When you start seeing half-racks, gather your shed hunting gear. Spot a bunch of bald bucks, and it\u2019s time to go scoop up some antlers. 2. Go to bed. Iowan Dan Johnson with a tailgate covered in sheds. Dan Johnson \u201cFood is important,\u201d says Dan Johnson, veteran shed hunter and whitetail blogger. \u201cBut to me, shed hunting is a lot like early- and late- season hunting; you want to know where bucks are bedding. Usually it\u2019s in cover close to a food source, but also in an area with lots of direct sunlight (think south-facing slopes) and protection from the wind.\u201d Johnson, who lives in southern Iowa, recently proved his theory by picking up eight sheds in a single day in such an area. 3. Slow down. The only way to spot a shed like this is to take your time and scan carefully. Scott Bestul Spotting an antler usually means spying part of a nut-brown beam against an oak-leaf backdrop or a white tine tip against a patch of snow. The only way to do that\u2014other than sheer luck\u2014is to take your time. Don\u2019t fall into the trap of thinking that finding more sheds is as simple as covering more ground. It isn\u2019t. Instead of covering three miles as fast as you can walk it, cover half that amount at a leisurely pace. You might not walk as far, but you\u2019ll probably find more horns. 4. Look within bow range. It\u2019s human nature to let your eyes bounce all over the landscape, hoping you\u2019ll spot that tall-tined shed screaming to be found. But that\u2019s a mistake says whitetail expert Mark Drury (druryoutdoors.com). \u201cMost of the antlers I find are within that same range I\u2019d expect to kill a good buck with a bow,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve learned that if I can keep my focus in that 30-yards-and-under area\u2014including frequent glancing right at my feet\u2014 I simply find more sheds.\u201d 5. Wait for Weather. A collection of shed antlers, picked up during a spring squall. Drury Outdoors It seems counter-intuitive, but sunny days\u2014when bright light should highlight antlers\u2014present some of the toughest shed-finding conditions. Too much contrast is to blame. Sure, a sunbeam can highlight a horn if it hits it just right, but that same bright sun creates harsh shadows that can hide even a dandy antler. Wait for an overcast day, and you\u2019ll spot horns you\u2019d walked past in harsh sunlight. 6. Work prime hunting hours. On bright days, sheds are easier to find when the sun is low in the sky. Drury Outdoors Of course, we have to shed hunt whenever we have the time, and if that means a sunny day, don\u2019t stay home. But instead of pounding ground all day, focus your effort on the same prime time morning and evening slots you would if you were hunting deer instead of just antlers. Keep that sun\u2014now low in the sky\u2014at your back, and sheds should jump out at you. 7. Return to the scene. It\u2019s tempting to write off an area you\u2019ve already searched, but don\u2019t. Remember, antler drop is a bell-shaped curve, with some bucks dropping early, a bunch casting a few weeks later, and a handful seemingly waiting for their new antlers to pop the old ones off. Keep working tried-and-true spots until you are sure deer are done dropping antlers. 8. Go for the green. Green food sources are prime places to find sheds now. Drury Outdoors Most winter deer feeding focuses on high-carb sources like corn and beans, so it would be silly to ignore those spots on a shed hunt. But in the prime antler-drop weeks of late winter and early spring, the first green forage of the season (grasses, forbs, and alfalfa) starts popping up. Whitetails crave green food now and will abandon the winter stuff in a heartbeat. Follow them and you\u2019ll pick up horns everyone else is missing. Want more like this? Sign up for our weekly newsletter and special offers! By submitting above, you agree to Field & Streams's privacy policy. 9. Organize the mob. Shed hunting is a great way for family and friends to enjoy some woods time together. Drury Outdoors Shed hunting can be a great social activity, a time to gather with other deer nuts and enjoy some woods time. But while there\u2019s a definite advantage to having extra legs and eyes, too many guys on the same hunt can also work against you, according to Mark Drury. \u201cWe used to make a skirmish line, like an old deer drive, for our team shed hunts,\u201d he says. \u201cThen we learned that one guy would see a buddy getting ahead of him and hurry to catch up, and then the next guy would see that and pick up the pace\u2026and before we knew it, we were racing through prime ground, which is a sure-fire way to miss sheds. Now we just divide up in groups of three or four, take smaller chunks of ground, and focus on really covering them well.\u201d 10. Call in the K-9. Think of how many more sheds you could find if your eyes were only two feet off the dirt and you could smell antlers! Well, that\u2019s not happening, but you can teach your dog to find antlers and increase your shed finding many-fold. For a rundown of training tips from one of the country\u2019s top dog men, check out the web story we did last year on training your own shed dog. 11. Hit the jumps. Ditches, creek crossings, and fence jumps are all great shed-finding spots, mainly because the effort required to cross the obstacle frequently jars a buck\u2019s antlers loose. I find more antlers in these spots after a low-snow winter, and I think it\u2019s because bucks are traveling widely as they switch to different food sources throughout the season. 12. Watch the road. Some good sheds on the dash of a side-by-side. Scott Bestul Let\u2019s be clear: I am not advocating distracted driving here. (It should go without saying that no antler is worth a wreck.) But do keep your eyes peeled for sheds as you drive low-traffic back roads in good deer country. I\u2019ve found many road sheds over the years, and most follow a similar pattern: I slow way down when I know I\u2019m approaching a fence jump, farm field, or ditch crossing, and then just scan for anything that looks antler-ish. If I spot something, I stop, pull out the binoculars, and verify. Finally\u2014and this is a critical step\u2014unless I know the landowner won\u2019t mind my scooping the shed (I\u2019m going to offer it to him anyway), I don\u2019t set foot on the property until I secure permission. I found the only matched set of the season last year this way. When I walked up to admire the four-point left side, I spotted the right side lying 10 yards away. ","teaser":" Follow these expert tips to have your best-ever bone-collecting season F inding shed antlers isn\u2019t easy. If you want to know just how hard it is, go through your trail-cam inventory and count up the bucks you know or suspect made it through the hunting season. 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If you want to know just how hard it is, go through your trail-cam inventory and count up the bucks you know or suspect made it through the hunting season. Then multiply that number by two (for each antler). Got your total? Now compare that to the average number of sheds you find each season. Odds are you\u2019re missing a whole lot of horns. Don\u2019t feel bad. I know some of the best shed hunters on the planet, and they don\u2019t get them all, either. But we can all get better. Through a combination of hard work and smarter searching, you can start to close that gap between the number of sheds on the ground and the number you actually find. Here are 10 tips for making this spring\u2019s shed hunt your best ever. 1. Wait for it. Once a clean 10-pointer, this buck is now down to five. Drury Outdoors It\u2019s natural to want to get started early, especially in areas where shed hunting is a competition sport. But if you want the most antlers for your efforts, wait until you know the majority of bucks have dropped both sides. Observe hot food sources from afar and keep trail cams out in popular feeding and travel areas. When you start seeing half-racks, gather your shed hunting gear. Spot a bunch of bald bucks, and it\u2019s time to go scoop up some antlers. 2. Go to bed. Iowan Dan Johnson with a tailgate covered in sheds. Dan Johnson \u201cFood is important,\u201d says Dan Johnson, veteran shed hunter and whitetail blogger. \u201cBut to me, shed hunting is a lot like early- and late- season hunting; you want to know where bucks are bedding. Usually it\u2019s in cover close to a food source, but also in an area with lots of direct sunlight (think south-facing slopes) and protection from the wind.\u201d Johnson, who lives in southern Iowa, recently proved his theory by picking up eight sheds in a single day in such an area. 3. Slow down. The only way to spot a shed like this is to take your time and scan carefully. Scott Bestul Spotting an antler usually means spying part of a nut-brown beam against an oak-leaf backdrop or a white tine tip against a patch of snow. The only way to do that\u2014other than sheer luck\u2014is to take your time. Don\u2019t fall into the trap of thinking that finding more sheds is as simple as covering more ground. It isn\u2019t. Instead of covering three miles as fast as you can walk it, cover half that amount at a leisurely pace. You might not walk as far, but you\u2019ll probably find more horns. 4. Look within bow range. It\u2019s human nature to let your eyes bounce all over the landscape, hoping you\u2019ll spot that tall-tined shed screaming to be found. But that\u2019s a mistake says whitetail expert Mark Drury (druryoutdoors.com). \u201cMost of the antlers I find are within that same range I\u2019d expect to kill a good buck with a bow,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve learned that if I can keep my focus in that 30-yards-and-under area\u2014including frequent glancing right at my feet\u2014 I simply find more sheds.\u201d 5. Wait for Weather. A collection of shed antlers, picked up during a spring squall. Drury Outdoors It seems counter-intuitive, but sunny days\u2014when bright light should highlight antlers\u2014present some of the toughest shed-finding conditions. Too much contrast is to blame. Sure, a sunbeam can highlight a horn if it hits it just right, but that same bright sun creates harsh shadows that can hide even a dandy antler. Wait for an overcast day, and you\u2019ll spot horns you\u2019d walked past in harsh sunlight. 6. Work prime hunting hours. On bright days, sheds are easier to find when the sun is low in the sky. Drury Outdoors Of course, we have to shed hunt whenever we have the time, and if that means a sunny day, don\u2019t stay home. But instead of pounding ground all day, focus your effort on the same prime time morning and evening slots you would if you were hunting deer instead of just antlers. Keep that sun\u2014now low in the sky\u2014at your back, and sheds should jump out at you. 7. Return to the scene. It\u2019s tempting to write off an area you\u2019ve already searched, but don\u2019t. Remember, antler drop is a bell-shaped curve, with some bucks dropping early, a bunch casting a few weeks later, and a handful seemingly waiting for their new antlers to pop the old ones off. Keep working tried-and-true spots until you are sure deer are done dropping antlers. 8. Go for the green. Green food sources are prime places to find sheds now. Drury Outdoors Most winter deer feeding focuses on high-carb sources like corn and beans, so it would be silly to ignore those spots on a shed hunt. But in the prime antler-drop weeks of late winter and early spring, the first green forage of the season (grasses, forbs, and alfalfa) starts popping up. Whitetails crave green food now and will abandon the winter stuff in a heartbeat. Follow them and you\u2019ll pick up horns everyone else is missing. Want more like this? Sign up for our weekly newsletter and special offers! By submitting above, you agree to Field & Streams's privacy policy. 9. Organize the mob. Shed hunting is a great way for family and friends to enjoy some woods time together. Drury Outdoors Shed hunting can be a great social activity, a time to gather with other deer nuts and enjoy some woods time. But while there\u2019s a definite advantage to having extra legs and eyes, too many guys on the same hunt can also work against you, according to Mark Drury. \u201cWe used to make a skirmish line, like an old deer drive, for our team shed hunts,\u201d he says. \u201cThen we learned that one guy would see a buddy getting ahead of him and hurry to catch up, and then the next guy would see that and pick up the pace\u2026and before we knew it, we were racing through prime ground, which is a sure-fire way to miss sheds. Now we just divide up in groups of three or four, take smaller chunks of ground, and focus on really covering them well.\u201d 10. Call in the K-9. Think of how many more sheds you could find if your eyes were only two feet off the dirt and you could smell antlers! Well, that\u2019s not happening, but you can teach your dog to find antlers and increase your shed finding many-fold. For a rundown of training tips from one of the country\u2019s top dog men, check out the web story we did last year on training your own shed dog. 11. Hit the jumps. Ditches, creek crossings, and fence jumps are all great shed-finding spots, mainly because the effort required to cross the obstacle frequently jars a buck\u2019s antlers loose. I find more antlers in these spots after a low-snow winter, and I think it\u2019s because bucks are traveling widely as they switch to different food sources throughout the season. 12. Watch the road. Some good sheds on the dash of a side-by-side. Scott Bestul Let\u2019s be clear: I am not advocating distracted driving here. (It should go without saying that no antler is worth a wreck.) But do keep your eyes peeled for sheds as you drive low-traffic back roads in good deer country. I\u2019ve found many road sheds over the years, and most follow a similar pattern: I slow way down when I know I\u2019m approaching a fence jump, farm field, or ditch crossing, and then just scan for anything that looks antler-ish. If I spot something, I stop, pull out the binoculars, and verify. Finally\u2014and this is a critical step\u2014unless I know the landowner won\u2019t mind my scooping the shed (I\u2019m going to offer it to him anyway), I don\u2019t set foot on the property until I secure permission. I found the only matched set of the season last year this way. When I walked up to admire the four-point left side, I spotted the right side lying 10 yards away. ","Hunting shed hunting sheds Antlers","Scott Bestul","
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But now that we have your attention, let\u2019s discuss the effective range of today\u2019s ground-breaking turkey ammunition The effective range of new gobbler ammo is getting greater, but a turkey hunt that ends at 20 yards will always be more exciting that one that ends at 70 yards. Wikimedia Commons Coming up with blog post topics every week is a struggle sometimes. So I Googled \u201cgreat blog posts\u201d and found a list of \u201c101 topics that will make your blog hot.\u201d For obvious reasons, number 80 was my favorite: \u201cAbandon your blog for a week and make others think what happened to you. It\u2019s pretty risky, but if you are famous blogger\u2014this will get you a lot of buzz.\u201d I loved that suggestion for so many reasons, but ultimately I decided getting paid and keeping my job was preferable to a week off and the slim possibility that my absence would generate buzz. Besides, I recalled that turkey season is open in some places and I have already been hearing about 50-, 60- and 70-yard turkey kills. I am going with hot-blog suggestion No. 43: \u201cTell an obvious lie.\u201d And that lie is: 70 yards is the new 40. New turkey loads\u2014notably Winchester Longbeard, but now Federal, Apex, and Nitro Co. have all introduce Tungsten Super Shot loads (more about TSS in an upcoming column, it\u2019s insane)\u2014make turkey guns lethal to 70 yards. To put that in perspective, when I started in 1987, my Browning Double Auto loaded with Remington short magnum 5s would and did kill a turkey at 35 yards. Full-choke 3-inch magnums might kill to 40. Effective turkey gun range has almost doubled in 30 years. A turkey at 50 yards could just as well have been on Mars when I started hunting. Now it\u2019s a dead bird, and while I\u2019m not proud of taking 50-yard shots, I\u2019ve made four or five, and believe they are totally ethical and within the killing power of my gun, which I have patterned a lot. The new ammo pushes that maximum distance out to 60 to 70 yards, or more. One outfitter told me he made a 98-yard shot on an injured Osceola with TSS, backing up a client. Does that mean we should all let fly at 70-yard turkeys as if they were standing 40 yards away? Uh, no. First, recognize that even a shot as basic as hitting a stationary turkey with a shot pattern gets harder with every yard, and 70 is a lot of yards. Second, you need to spend a lot of time at the range with your gun, fooling with chokes, sights, and ammo to come up with a combination that is reliable at 70. The rigs capable of 70-yard kills are out there, but it\u2019s not just a question of putting expensive shells in your gun. Third, you\u2019ll want a rangefinder, because who\u2019s to say the turkey standing at 70 isn\u2019t actually at 78? Not many of us can eyeball 70 yards accurately. Finally, I hope we can all agree that a hunt that ends at 20 yards is much more exciting than one that ends at 70. There\u2019s no denying the effectiveness of Longbeard and TSS, and I\u2019m not going to pretend we can\u2019t kill turkeys a lot farther away than we used to. Should we? That\u2019s an ethical question up to each one of us. ","teaser":" Actually, that\u2019s an obvious lie. 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The first things you see and hear in the YouTube video are a large, healthy mountain lion staring intently at the camera and the voice of shed hunter Adam Bartsch on Vancouver Island saying, \u201cI just found a shed antler and there\u2019s a monster, monster tom at 20 meters looking at me. A monster tom cougar. And, no, I don\u2019t have a gun. I have nothing. And he is huge.\u201d There are several remarkable things about this moment. It really is a big cougar. Even its forepaws look thick. It\u2019s so close you can see individual whiskers. And it is staring straight at the guy from a crouch, wondering\u2014it seems to me\u2014whether it has just found lunch. Another thing is how steady the camera is. And the guy\u2019s voice is steadier yet. The cat has his attention, but he isn\u2019t panicked. Let me just note that I doubt I could pull that off. Then he says something that sounds like, \u201cHoly snappin\u2019 arseholes. How cool is that?\u201d This has been uploaded by an outfit named She Hunts Productions, and at 38 seconds a soundtrack of tense instrumental music kicks in and doesn\u2019t let up for the rest of the video. (To be fair, the woman who posted it, apparently Mrs. Bartsch, notes in the comments that it was 1 a.m. and she really just wanted to go to bed.) Cut to the cat watching him with its paws on a downed tree. At 1:40 of the 5-minute video, the cat gets atop the tree, as if readying itself to charge. It sits there like a coiled spring for a full minute. It starts to rain a bit. At 2:40, the animal sits up and turns sideways for about 10 seconds, then gets down on the far side of the log. Cut to a scene of the cougar on the ground, even closer, now 15 meters away. At 4:40, Mr. Bartsch\u2014more in wonderment than fear\u2014says, \u201cFifteen meters away from me. Look at him! Just eyein\u2019 me up like I\u2019m a blacktail deer.\u201d But the guy is not entirely unarmed. He\u2019s found a shed antler. Unfortunately, blacktails aren\u2019t known for their large antlers. So if the cat charges, it may not be the best deterrent. At 4:46, Mr. Bartsch decides he\u2019s had enough. \u201cI think it\u2019s time to get rid of him,\u201d he says. \u201cShhhhht,\u201d he hisses. \u201cGo on, get outta here. Shhhhht.\u201d He doesn\u2019t even say it particularly loudly. But the cougar turns and starts to walk away. \u201cHe\u2019s not exactly running away, is he?\u201d says Bartsch. \u201cHe\u2019s right there.\u201d But it\u2019s pretty clear the animal isn\u2019t going to attack. The video ends. The armchair experts weigh in in the Comments below the video. If the animal had truly been stalking him, he\u2019d be dead by now. The animal was stalking him but didn\u2019t know what to make of him. The guy was a moron and should have been carrying a gun, bear spray, or big knife. He should have shot first and asked questions later. This is why you should never go into the woods unarmed. He was the one stalking the cougar, invading the cougar\u2019s domain. And so on. Actually, the comments are more enlightened than those on many similar videos. My read? This guy had the single most important thing you need to survive an encounter with an apex predator. Self-possession. He never says whether he thinks the animal is simply curious or is eyeing him up as prey. Once it got within 15 meters, however, he decided to let it know he wasn\u2019t lunch and did so without any particular drama. And the animal left. As I noted, I seriously doubt I\u2019d have had that much presence of mind myself. But I do aspire to it. ","teaser":" Could you stare down a mountain lion? 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In his private papers, Cooper codified the Scout: The most important thing about the Scout is that it is a general-purpose rifle. Its most outstanding characteristic is its handiness. It will put \u2019em where you point \u2019em from arm\u2019s length out to a range too great for any sensible attempt. When it comes to kicking and climbing, and running and jumping, leaping in and out of hunting vehicles, and quick selection of position, the Scout begins to shine. There are other items on this list, but these are the essentials. The rifle is a bolt-action carbine in.308, 7mm\/08, or.243 with auxiliary iron sights, an IER scope, a good trigger, a shooting sling, and a modest amount of weight. Those, I believe, are the basics. There\u2019s all sorts of bickering about what Cooper intended, and whether lever-actions should be included, and the range of calibers included, and whether the muzzle be decorated with a flash hider, or a muzzle brake, or a can, and so forth. 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King Louis XV\u2019s Lorenzoni flintlock repeater could be yours\u2014for the price of $175,000.<\/div>","
King Louis XV\u2019s Lorenzoni flintlock repeater could be yours\u2014for the price of $175,000.<\/div>","\n
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From the author I recently traveled to Palatine Lake, N.J., to do a story about bass pro Mike Iaconelli, who is a fanatical organizer of tackle. \u201cIt really helps with time management,\u201d he told me, as he showed me around his custom-designed garage, which is more than 20 yards deep and has doors at each end so he can drive the boat in and out without changing direction. Along half of one wall were rod lockers. \u201cMost guys use rod holders,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve just got too many. Instead, I\u2019ve got these open-face lockers. Sort them by length and action.\u201d He had about 20 lockers and 200 rods. There were 3-foot-high stacks of Flambeau tackle boxes holding lures by type, size, and color. All were clearly labeled. Other boxes of hooks and weights. He had a line-spooling station, about a dozen big spools of line suspended horizontally. He likes to use fluorocarbon and braid. \u201cGot these rigged up so I can spool up a rod while I\u2019m still in the boat,\u201d he said with the satisfaction of a man who is on top of things. There was a wall of peg hooks full of packets of plastics and Rapala crankbaits. Ike had more and better organized tackle than most big-box sporting-goods stores. I made all the appropriately appreciative remarks\u2014and I certainly envied the man his inventory\u2014but there was a part of me that was secretly thinking, Dude, get a life. Who has the time to spend organizing stuff so that they can find it faster? This was defensive thinking, of course. Ike has a life. He has more than $2.5 million in tour winnings, many millions more in sponsorship and TV deals, and all kinds of side businesses. He lives in a huge custom-built house near where he grew up. He\u2019s working with the National Geographic Channel on a show that would follow him fishing all over the world. He\u2019s richer, more successful, and better known than I\u2019ll ever be. But the guy is always on. While we were out on the lake behind his house, his phone chirped and he gave a 10-minute interview while pitching a weedy shoreline. He sounded like he is so used to doing these that he could be asleep and still do a credible job. My life is slower and less dramatic, but it suits me. I have, for example, an organizing system that works better for my personality. It\u2019s gravity-based. I take stuff into the basement and set it down someplace. If gravity keeps it down, I figure it\u2019s in the right place. I try to keep the hunting and fishing stuff separate, but bleed-over is inevitable. I\u2019ll be sitting in a treestand, notice a garlic-y smell, and discover that I\u2019ve brought a 4-ounce bottle of Kick\u2019n Bass scent instead of insect repellant. Or I\u2019ll be out in a canoe and find that the only stink I have to put on a jig is doe-in-estrus scent. I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve found the latter to work as well on bass as it does on deer. Although, to tell the truth, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever really seen it work on deer. If you\u2019re too organized, you miss out on moments of serendipity because you already know where everything is. For the trip up to N.J., for example, I\u2019d dusted off a set of Cabela\u2019s Guidewear fishing parka and bibs that I hadn\u2019t worn in ages. It\u2019s got to be 20 years old, from a time when Velcro seemed like the answer to all of humanity\u2019s problems. There must be 40 feet of \u00be-inch-wide Velcro closures on the legs, cuffs, pockets, and zippers. Every time you open a pocket or need to pee, it sounds like you\u2019re ripping apart an entire bedsheet. \u00a0 I patted the pockets, as I always do when I put on clothes I haven\u2019t worn in a while. I\u2019ve been missing a spare set of car keys for a few years now, and I\u2019m pretty sure they\u2019re in a pocket somewhere. I didn\u2019t find any keys, but in one of the chest pockets, I found an old Rocky Patel Torpedo. I gave up cigars years ago. But I figured this this was a grandfathered-in \u201cgift\u201d cigar. I wouldn\u2019t be buying any new cigars, just finishing off the last of what I had on hand. Heck, it would be wasteful to just throw it out. It was completely dried out, of course, so I put it in a plastic bag with a moist paper towel. In about a week, it should be prime. Wow, I thought, this is great. I really miss cigars. I set it aside, went on my trip, and came home last night. The only problem now is that I have no idea where I put the cigar. I\u2019ll bet it\u2019s in the pocket of something. ","teaser":" A visit to Mike Iaconelli proves that your fishing tackle can be too well organized The Heavey basement, with its gravity-based organization system on full display. 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A visit to Mike Iaconelli proves that your fishing tackle can<\/em> be too well organized…<\/div>","ts_bonnier_summary_long":"
A visit to Mike Iaconelli proves that your fishing tackle can<\/em> be too well organized…<\/div>","ts_bonnier_eyebrow":"\n
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From the author I recently traveled to Palatine Lake, N.J., to do a story about bass pro Mike Iaconelli, who is a fanatical organizer of tackle. \u201cIt really helps with time management,\u201d he told me, as he showed me around his custom-designed garage, which is more than 20 yards deep and has doors at each end so he can drive the boat in and out without changing direction. Along half of one wall were rod lockers. \u201cMost guys use rod holders,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve just got too many. Instead, I\u2019ve got these open-face lockers. Sort them by length and action.\u201d He had about 20 lockers and 200 rods. There were 3-foot-high stacks of Flambeau tackle boxes holding lures by type, size, and color. All were clearly labeled. Other boxes of hooks and weights. He had a line-spooling station, about a dozen big spools of line suspended horizontally. He likes to use fluorocarbon and braid. \u201cGot these rigged up so I can spool up a rod while I\u2019m still in the boat,\u201d he said with the satisfaction of a man who is on top of things. There was a wall of peg hooks full of packets of plastics and Rapala crankbaits. Ike had more and better organized tackle than most big-box sporting-goods stores. I made all the appropriately appreciative remarks\u2014and I certainly envied the man his inventory\u2014but there was a part of me that was secretly thinking, Dude, get a life. Who has the time to spend organizing stuff so that they can find it faster? This was defensive thinking, of course. Ike has a life. He has more than $2.5 million in tour winnings, many millions more in sponsorship and TV deals, and all kinds of side businesses. He lives in a huge custom-built house near where he grew up. He\u2019s working with the National Geographic Channel on a show that would follow him fishing all over the world. He\u2019s richer, more successful, and better known than I\u2019ll ever be. But the guy is always on. While we were out on the lake behind his house, his phone chirped and he gave a 10-minute interview while pitching a weedy shoreline. He sounded like he is so used to doing these that he could be asleep and still do a credible job. My life is slower and less dramatic, but it suits me. I have, for example, an organizing system that works better for my personality. It\u2019s gravity-based. I take stuff into the basement and set it down someplace. If gravity keeps it down, I figure it\u2019s in the right place. I try to keep the hunting and fishing stuff separate, but bleed-over is inevitable. I\u2019ll be sitting in a treestand, notice a garlic-y smell, and discover that I\u2019ve brought a 4-ounce bottle of Kick\u2019n Bass scent instead of insect repellant. Or I\u2019ll be out in a canoe and find that the only stink I have to put on a jig is doe-in-estrus scent. I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve found the latter to work as well on bass as it does on deer. Although, to tell the truth, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve ever really seen it work on deer. If you\u2019re too organized, you miss out on moments of serendipity because you already know where everything is. For the trip up to N.J., for example, I\u2019d dusted off a set of Cabela\u2019s Guidewear fishing parka and bibs that I hadn\u2019t worn in ages. It\u2019s got to be 20 years old, from a time when Velcro seemed like the answer to all of humanity\u2019s problems. There must be 40 feet of \u00be-inch-wide Velcro closures on the legs, cuffs, pockets, and zippers. Every time you open a pocket or need to pee, it sounds like you\u2019re ripping apart an entire bedsheet. \u00a0 I patted the pockets, as I always do when I put on clothes I haven\u2019t worn in a while. I\u2019ve been missing a spare set of car keys for a few years now, and I\u2019m pretty sure they\u2019re in a pocket somewhere. I didn\u2019t find any keys, but in one of the chest pockets, I found an old Rocky Patel Torpedo. I gave up cigars years ago. But I figured this this was a grandfathered-in \u201cgift\u201d cigar. I wouldn\u2019t be buying any new cigars, just finishing off the last of what I had on hand. Heck, it would be wasteful to just throw it out. It was completely dried out, of course, so I put it in a plastic bag with a moist paper towel. In about a week, it should be prime. Wow, I thought, this is great. I really miss cigars. I set it aside, went on my trip, and came home last night. The only problem now is that I have no idea where I put the cigar. I\u2019ll bet it\u2019s in the pocket of something. ","bill heavey a sportsman's life Gear tackle bass gear tips tree stands Fishing Clothing Fishing Gear Hunting Clothing","Bill Heavey","
A visit to Mike Iaconelli proves that your fishing tackle can<\/em> be too well organized…<\/div>","
A visit to Mike Iaconelli proves that your fishing tackle can<\/em> be too well organized…<\/div>","\n
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When I try to describe a shot cloud to a new shooter\u2014a lot of them think they are trying to hit a target with a single projectile\u2014I tell them to imagine a swarm of bees. That analogy seems to help, although it\u2019s not precise. Swarms of bees are a bunch of individual bees flying sort of randomly (I have been watching bee swarm videos on YouTube this morning to be sure). Pellets draft behind one another. Shot exits the muzzle in a solid clump. As the leading pellets encounter air resistance, they begin to peel back from the clump, exposing others. The trailing pellets draft behind the leaders, like bike racers, Indy cars, or geese, shielded from the air resistance. Those are the pellets that wind up flying straight and forming the pattern core, while the leaders are the ones that slow, spread, and string out, and hit the pattern fringes. The drafting phenomenon is real. If you have the chance to shoot pellets into ballistic gelatin, or to watch them on high-speed video, you\u2019ll see that some pellets fall into line behind others and stay there, striking the target in exactly the same spot. When you look at gelatin, you\u2019ll see there are a few instances in almost every pattern where two pellets enter the same hole. As the first pellet slows down in the gelatin, the second plows into it, like a tailgating car at a stoplight, then it glances off at an angle. But, you say, that could be mere coincidence. After all, if you shoot a few hundred pellets at the same spot, some of them are liable to pass through the same hole. Watching buckshot fly downrange will make you a believer in drafting. A few years ago, on one of my visits to Federal\u2019s underground tunnel, we shot a bunch of buckshot patterns on paper and recorded them on high-speed video. We\u2019d shoot a 15-pellet load at a giant sheet of paper and only find 14 holes. Either one pellet was missing a giant sheet of paper completely (which could happen) or two were going through the same hole. It didn\u2019t happen every time, but it happened a lot, and the odds of two pellets out of 15 hitting the same spot on a huge piece of paper 40 yards away has to be low. Watching the high-speed video confirmed that, indeed, often one pellet would tuck in behind another, and both would pass through the same hole in the paper. \u201cThis drives law enforcement guys nuts,\u201d Federal\u2019s Erik Carlson said. \u201cThey have to account for where every pellet goes at the range, and they shoot a lot of targets where two pellets probably passed through the same hole.\u201d Does this matter from a practical standpoint? I don\u2019t think it does. It probably means your shotgun is patterning just a little bit tighter than you think it is when you count holes in paper, because you can\u2019t tell how many passed through each hole. 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The phenomenon of drafting shot pellets is real. Here\u2019s how it can affect your shooting.<\/div>","ts_bonnier_summary_long":"
The phenomenon of drafting shot pellets is real. Here\u2019s how it can affect your shooting.<\/div>","ts_bonnier_eyebrow":"\n
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The phenomenon of drafting shot pellets is real. Here\u2019s how it can affect your shooting.<\/div>","
The phenomenon of drafting shot pellets is real. Here\u2019s how it can affect your shooting.<\/div>","\n
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Kelly Bastone A s the bonefish bulleted away with my line, my heartbeat seemed to lurch into fast-forward. Here in the Marls, a 300-square-mile expanse of tropical flats off the west coast of the Bahamas\u2019 Great Abaco Island, the fish must\u2019ve sensed that it could run forever. I let the reel whir until the line slackened slightly, then I cranked like mad to haul it back. The fight went back and forth like this for two marvelous minutes before my rig suddenly slackened altogether. Looking at a straight rod, I realized I\u2019d lost my fish. I felt cheated enough to howl. \u201cNothin\u2019 you coulda done about that,\u201d said Travis Sands, who was poling me around the shallows beyond Abaco Lodge. Living in Colorado, I\u2019ve lost my fair share of trout for reasons both obvious and inscrutable, and I know that breakoffs are just part of the game. But apparently, I\u2019d hoped angling\u2019s laws might work differently down here in the Bahamas. And we\u2019d seen so few fish that day that I worried I might\u2019ve flubbed my only chance to bring a bonefish to the boat. Grey Ghost Paradise This was my first trip to the Bahamas, and I expected warm temperatures\u2014or at least sunshine and those blue-opal waters found nowhere else. But as luck would have it, the same weather system that was dumping January\u2019s \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d on the mid-Atlantic coast was also roiling the water here at Abaco Lodge, situated on the labyrinth of mangroves and mud flats known as the Marls. Bonefish are a bucket-list target for fly anglers who love the challenge of sight-fishing. Joe Cermele These vast swaths of shallow water hold huge numbers of bonefish, which helped earn this area its National Park designation in 2015. Marls fish, on average, aren\u2019t huge\u20145 pounds ranks as big\u2014but they are plentiful. In May and June, Sands tells me, the fish are so thick that you can\u2019t wade without kicking them. That\u2019s what prompted Oliver White to establish Abaco Lodge in 2009. A globetrotting angler and adventurer, White has scouted fisheries from French Polynesia to Guyana, and he knows an uncorrupted gem when he sees one. So, when he stumbled upon a ramshackle waterfront property on the west coast of Abaco Island, on the Marls\u2019 very doorstep, he rounded up some investors and turned the dilapidated former hotel into an 11-room fishing lodge and dock. When anglers aren\u2019t bonefishing, Abaco Lodge is a pretty nice place to kick back. Kelly Bastone The lodge lounge is comfy (its sofas are flanked by an open bar and a big-screen TV) and the d\u00e9cor is sleek but relaxed: The small waterfront yard includes both a fire pit and a black stone swimming pool. But direct access to the flats is the lodge\u2019s standout feature. Instead of having to trailer a boat to the put-in (as most Abaco Island anglers do), guests at Abaco Lodge roll from coffee to dock\u2014and in the afternoon, from dock to Kalik lager\u2014with a 15-second commute. Fishing from the dock wasn\u2019t an option when I arrived, though. Whipping winds, grey skies, and cold, murky water sent the bonefish fleeing to warmer depths. But as Sands and I set out on his flats skiff on the first of three days, he seemed cavalier about the unfavorable conditions. \u201cWe\u2019ll find some,\u201d he assured me. He beamed even brighter when I selected a dun-colored Coyote Ugly shrimp fly that Drew Chicone had sent me for this trip. (The author of the book series Top Saltwater Flies, Chicone has taught fishing workshops from Abaco Lodge and knows what works on the Marls.) With the wind consistently topping 20 mph, Sands chose to hug the tall, pine-covered coast of Abaco proper rather than venturing into the low-lying mangrove islands offshore. We spent the morning drifting through sheltered bays that warmed up quickly during the brief periods of sun that let us peer into the water. Even then, we saw almost no fish. \u201cAll the little guys are afraid of getting beached, so they\u2019re hanging out in the deep,\u201d Sands said, explaining that wind affects these depths even more than the tides and that only the bigger bones feel comfortable enough to feed in such changeable water. Targeting giants struck me as a fine idea, but the fish I eventually hooked (and lost) was mid-size at best, and thickening afternoon clouds shut down the action altogether. That day\u2019s consolation prize was conch fitters and buttered lobster tail back at the lodge. This Abaco bonefish fell for a Coyote Ugly pattern. Kelly Bastone Last Cast The next morning I stepped onto the dock to find that the water was clearer but the wind just as strong. My guide Michael Taylor (guests at Abaco Lodge fish with a different guide each day) ran us 20 minutes offshore into the gust-hammered Marls. For four hours, we searched the roughed-up water for fish. We glimpsed no other boats, no shred of any human evidence anywhere in the vast, open flats. Mesmerized by the immensity, I stared at the mangroves\u2019 arcing legs, and tried to conjure fins. Finally, we spied a trio of big, brawny bones feeding hard along a sandy beach. Taylor brought me within 30 feet of them, but I couldn\u2019t handle the crosswind, and we soon watched the three bonefish zipping away. The next pod we located offered easier casting with a tailing wind, and two long strips after I laid down my Coyote Ugly, I felt the tug of a hooked bone. The photos we took reveal it to be an average-size fish, unremarkable in any visible way. But as I leaned over the hull and cradled its belly in my fingers, the fish seemed like a staggering gem. Exhilarated to have driven the skunk off this trip, I decided that catching any additional fish would be gravy. The author fights an Abaco bonefish. Hilary Hutchenson Thing is, I soon found myself hungering for heaping helpings of that gravy, and my final morning at Abaco seemed likely to serve it up. Clouds persisted but the wind had died, presenting us with glassy water that spotlit tailing fish. Ashron Williams, a third-generation bonefishing guide who was born and raised on Abaco Island, poled us through the Marls\u2019 watery crannies. \u201cA lot of guides are afraid of the Marls,\u201d said Williams, who\u2019s logged so many miles on these flats that he long ago lost any qualms about getting lost or stuck aground. Within minutes of cutting the motor, he spied a small school of bonefish feeding against the mangroves. I dropped the fly silently, but too far to the left. \u201cLeave it,\u201d Williams said. Holding my breath, I watched the lead fish munch its way toward my Coyote Ugly. Tailing bonefish can make for an easier target for fly anglers. Joe Cermele That\u2019s the great thing about fly-fishing in the Bahamas: These smooth, sand-bottomed flats are more forgiving than reefs. Bonefishing in Belize, for example, demands absolute accuracy, because letting the hook rest on the bottom is likely to get you snagged on a coral head. But the Marls let me be more approximate with my casts. Once the fish finally nosed toward my line, all it took was one long strip to spark a chase. The hooked bonefish rocketed toward the mangroves, but I managed to steer it back toward open water and reel it to the skiff. As the day stretched on, we never did spot the massive pods of bonefish that the Marls are famous for, but the fish we did ambush were greedy eaters. My friend hooked a bone on his second presentation, after the fish refused the fly on the first pass. And most of the fish we caught were bigger than the Marls\u2019 3- to 4-pound average. Want more like this? Sign up for our weekly newsletter and special offers! By submitting above, you agree to Field & Streams's privacy policy. The biggest, though, made those mid-size fish look like guppies. Williams spotted it form 100 yards, tailing 6 feet off a skinny crescent of sea-lapped sand. \u201cThere\u2019s three of them, at 11 o\u2019clock,\u201d he said. As we began our silent, slow chase, I kept my eyes fixed on the trio of tails jutting out of the glassy water, like tiny black-edge flags flutter in a languid breeze. Finally, we drew close enough to make out their bodies underwater. The lead fish was a giant\u20148 or 9 pounds, Williams estimated\u2014and feeding hard. I unleashed my fly, made two false casts, and dropped the fly right where I wanted, about a foot beyond the fish\u2019s nose. The author prepares to release a hard-earned bonefish. Alex Suescun Or, so I thought. The moment my fly hit the water, I watched the three biggest fish sprint away from the boat, spooked. My presentation would\u2019ve been perfect for the 4- and 5-pounders we had been seeing, but this bonefish was twice as long, and I misjudged the distance between its wake and its mouth, inadvertently landing the fly on its back. Read Next: Hook Shots: No (Bonefish) Country for Old Men \u201cWith the really big bones,\u201d Williams said, \u201cyou\u2019ve got to lead them more than you think.\u201d I lost that trophy. But next time, I promised myself, I\u2019ll parlay the lesson to win. ","teaser":" Even in the middle of a \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d storm, the bonefishing at Abaco Lodge is still a fly angler\u2019s paradise A selection of fly rods are available for anglers to cast from the dock at Abaco Lodge. 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Kelly Bastone A s the bonefish bulleted away with my line, my heartbeat seemed to lurch into fast-forward. Here in the Marls, a 300-square-mile expanse of tropical flats off the west coast of the Bahamas\u2019 Great Abaco Island, the fish must\u2019ve sensed that it could run forever. I let the reel whir until the line slackened slightly, then I cranked like mad to haul it back. The fight went back and forth like this for two marvelous minutes before my rig suddenly slackened altogether. Looking at a straight rod, I realized I\u2019d lost my fish. I felt cheated enough to howl. \u201cNothin\u2019 you coulda done about that,\u201d said Travis Sands, who was poling me around the shallows beyond Abaco Lodge. Living in Colorado, I\u2019ve lost my fair share of trout for reasons both obvious and inscrutable, and I know that breakoffs are just part of the game. But apparently, I\u2019d hoped angling\u2019s laws might work differently down here in the Bahamas. And we\u2019d seen so few fish that day that I worried I might\u2019ve flubbed my only chance to bring a bonefish to the boat. Grey Ghost Paradise This was my first trip to the Bahamas, and I expected warm temperatures\u2014or at least sunshine and those blue-opal waters found nowhere else. But as luck would have it, the same weather system that was dumping January\u2019s \u201cbomb cyclone\u201d on the mid-Atlantic coast was also roiling the water here at Abaco Lodge, situated on the labyrinth of mangroves and mud flats known as the Marls. Bonefish are a bucket-list target for fly anglers who love the challenge of sight-fishing. Joe Cermele These vast swaths of shallow water hold huge numbers of bonefish, which helped earn this area its National Park designation in 2015. Marls fish, on average, aren\u2019t huge\u20145 pounds ranks as big\u2014but they are plentiful. In May and June, Sands tells me, the fish are so thick that you can\u2019t wade without kicking them. That\u2019s what prompted Oliver White to establish Abaco Lodge in 2009. A globetrotting angler and adventurer, White has scouted fisheries from French Polynesia to Guyana, and he knows an uncorrupted gem when he sees one. So, when he stumbled upon a ramshackle waterfront property on the west coast of Abaco Island, on the Marls\u2019 very doorstep, he rounded up some investors and turned the dilapidated former hotel into an 11-room fishing lodge and dock. When anglers aren\u2019t bonefishing, Abaco Lodge is a pretty nice place to kick back. Kelly Bastone The lodge lounge is comfy (its sofas are flanked by an open bar and a big-screen TV) and the d\u00e9cor is sleek but relaxed: The small waterfront yard includes both a fire pit and a black stone swimming pool. But direct access to the flats is the lodge\u2019s standout feature. Instead of having to trailer a boat to the put-in (as most Abaco Island anglers do), guests at Abaco Lodge roll from coffee to dock\u2014and in the afternoon, from dock to Kalik lager\u2014with a 15-second commute. Fishing from the dock wasn\u2019t an option when I arrived, though. Whipping winds, grey skies, and cold, murky water sent the bonefish fleeing to warmer depths. But as Sands and I set out on his flats skiff on the first of three days, he seemed cavalier about the unfavorable conditions. \u201cWe\u2019ll find some,\u201d he assured me. He beamed even brighter when I selected a dun-colored Coyote Ugly shrimp fly that Drew Chicone had sent me for this trip. (The author of the book series Top Saltwater Flies, Chicone has taught fishing workshops from Abaco Lodge and knows what works on the Marls.) With the wind consistently topping 20 mph, Sands chose to hug the tall, pine-covered coast of Abaco proper rather than venturing into the low-lying mangrove islands offshore. We spent the morning drifting through sheltered bays that warmed up quickly during the brief periods of sun that let us peer into the water. Even then, we saw almost no fish. \u201cAll the little guys are afraid of getting beached, so they\u2019re hanging out in the deep,\u201d Sands said, explaining that wind affects these depths even more than the tides and that only the bigger bones feel comfortable enough to feed in such changeable water. Targeting giants struck me as a fine idea, but the fish I eventually hooked (and lost) was mid-size at best, and thickening afternoon clouds shut down the action altogether. That day\u2019s consolation prize was conch fitters and buttered lobster tail back at the lodge. This Abaco bonefish fell for a Coyote Ugly pattern. Kelly Bastone Last Cast The next morning I stepped onto the dock to find that the water was clearer but the wind just as strong. My guide Michael Taylor (guests at Abaco Lodge fish with a different guide each day) ran us 20 minutes offshore into the gust-hammered Marls. For four hours, we searched the roughed-up water for fish. We glimpsed no other boats, no shred of any human evidence anywhere in the vast, open flats. Mesmerized by the immensity, I stared at the mangroves\u2019 arcing legs, and tried to conjure fins. Finally, we spied a trio of big, brawny bones feeding hard along a sandy beach. Taylor brought me within 30 feet of them, but I couldn\u2019t handle the crosswind, and we soon watched the three bonefish zipping away. The next pod we located offered easier casting with a tailing wind, and two long strips after I laid down my Coyote Ugly, I felt the tug of a hooked bone. The photos we took reveal it to be an average-size fish, unremarkable in any visible way. But as I leaned over the hull and cradled its belly in my fingers, the fish seemed like a staggering gem. Exhilarated to have driven the skunk off this trip, I decided that catching any additional fish would be gravy. The author fights an Abaco bonefish. Hilary Hutchenson Thing is, I soon found myself hungering for heaping helpings of that gravy, and my final morning at Abaco seemed likely to serve it up. Clouds persisted but the wind had died, presenting us with glassy water that spotlit tailing fish. Ashron Williams, a third-generation bonefishing guide who was born and raised on Abaco Island, poled us through the Marls\u2019 watery crannies. \u201cA lot of guides are afraid of the Marls,\u201d said Williams, who\u2019s logged so many miles on these flats that he long ago lost any qualms about getting lost or stuck aground. Within minutes of cutting the motor, he spied a small school of bonefish feeding against the mangroves. I dropped the fly silently, but too far to the left. \u201cLeave it,\u201d Williams said. Holding my breath, I watched the lead fish munch its way toward my Coyote Ugly. Tailing bonefish can make for an easier target for fly anglers. Joe Cermele That\u2019s the great thing about fly-fishing in the Bahamas: These smooth, sand-bottomed flats are more forgiving than reefs. Bonefishing in Belize, for example, demands absolute accuracy, because letting the hook rest on the bottom is likely to get you snagged on a coral head. But the Marls let me be more approximate with my casts. Once the fish finally nosed toward my line, all it took was one long strip to spark a chase. The hooked bonefish rocketed toward the mangroves, but I managed to steer it back toward open water and reel it to the skiff. As the day stretched on, we never did spot the massive pods of bonefish that the Marls are famous for, but the fish we did ambush were greedy eaters. My friend hooked a bone on his second presentation, after the fish refused the fly on the first pass. And most of the fish we caught were bigger than the Marls\u2019 3- to 4-pound average. Want more like this? Sign up for our weekly newsletter and special offers! By submitting above, you agree to Field & Streams's privacy policy. The biggest, though, made those mid-size fish look like guppies. Williams spotted it form 100 yards, tailing 6 feet off a skinny crescent of sea-lapped sand. \u201cThere\u2019s three of them, at 11 o\u2019clock,\u201d he said. As we began our silent, slow chase, I kept my eyes fixed on the trio of tails jutting out of the glassy water, like tiny black-edge flags flutter in a languid breeze. Finally, we drew close enough to make out their bodies underwater. The lead fish was a giant\u20148 or 9 pounds, Williams estimated\u2014and feeding hard. I unleashed my fly, made two false casts, and dropped the fly right where I wanted, about a foot beyond the fish\u2019s nose. The author prepares to release a hard-earned bonefish. Alex Suescun Or, so I thought. The moment my fly hit the water, I watched the three biggest fish sprint away from the boat, spooked. My presentation would\u2019ve been perfect for the 4- and 5-pounders we had been seeing, but this bonefish was twice as long, and I misjudged the distance between its wake and its mouth, inadvertently landing the fly on its back. Read Next: Hook Shots: No (Bonefish) Country for Old Men \u201cWith the really big bones,\u201d Williams said, \u201cyou\u2019ve got to lead them more than you think.\u201d I lost that trophy. But next time, I promised myself, I\u2019ll parlay the lesson to win. ","Fishing bonefish Fly Fishing Saltwater Fishing Flats Fishing flyfishing","Kelly Bastone","
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