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The author, a highly skilled and successful Minnesota bowhunter, had this to say — “The whitetail deer is a tremendous game animal.  It is a challenge, a supreme challenge.  Lots of [...]

Male and female black bears are together only during breeding season. A female may mate with several males during her estrus. Cubs from the same litter may have different fathers. Fertilized eggs [...]

This is Memoir Chapter 5 from The Bear Hunting Obsession of a Driven Man, by Bill Wiesner. As a bear hunting guide, I took only bow hunters and never had a problem filling my schedule. However, [...]

Basic Black Bear Body, Behavioral & Additional Facts In addition to their great strength… 1) Black bears can do a lot with their front paws and claws. They can open screw-top jars and [...]

Excerpt from Lessons Learned From the Magnificent Bird, by Gary Sefton. The wild turkey is the essence of turkey flavor. Comparing wild turkey to commercially raised turkeys is like comparing [...]

When you dissect a yelp, you find that it is made up of a high-pitched “kee” note that breaks over sharply into a sound best described as a “youk”. When you put the two [...]

Judy was taking a break from Spring flower work, seated on a swing on the north side of our lawn and on the west side of our garage. I was working on a new treestand practice shooting platform in [...]

My buddy Mike and I were on a five-day September bow hunt for pronghorns in western South Dakota. We had high hopes, for it was getting near the peak of the rut. The pronghorn’s, not ours. [...]

by Glenn & Judy Helgeland, with favorite recipes and light-hearted stories from outdoor people like you Paperback, comb-bound to lay flat, 140 pages Excerpt: Not even the woodpeckers… A deer [...]