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The Best Shooting Positions With Former Special Ops Sniper Ryan Cleckner

The Best Shooting Positions With Former Special Ops Sniper Ryan Cleckner

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Watch Former Special Operations Sniper Ryan Cleckner Demonstrate The Best Shooting Positions

It’s fine to shoot from the prone position or a bench at the range, but you should also practice from realistic shooting positions you’re more likely to use while hunting. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never taken a shot from a bench rest on a hunt. And while the prone shooting position is

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Traditional Bowhunt from 1926 Shows Arthur Young Taking a Grizzly

Traditional Bowhunt from 1926 Shows Arthur Young Taking a Grizzly

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Arthur Young

This vintage hunt shows just how good Arthur Young was. In the world of bowhunting there are a few famous people who you know just based on their last name alone. Guys like Fred Bear, Saxton Pope and of course, Arthur Young, are now household names every archer knows very well. Arthur “Art” Young was

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Everybody Loves a Little ‘Incomplete Deer Hunter’ with Jeff Foxworthy

Everybody Loves a Little ‘Incomplete Deer Hunter’ with Jeff Foxworthy

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Jeff Foxworthy

Time for some sage hunting advice from the “Incomplete Deer Hunter” Who doesn’t enjoy a good humorous hunting video every now and then? Jeff Foxworthy’s “Incomplete Deer Hunter” series is one of the more notable ones. These videos were filled with great little clips that almost any hunter or Redneck could identify with. We could

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7-Foot, 230-Pound Alligator Gar Drags Jon Boat Around Texas River

7-Foot, 230-Pound Alligator Gar Drags Jon Boat Around Texas River

YouTube: The Fish Whisperer
alligator gar

This gar may be 80 years old! Usually when we share a video from the Fish Whisperer, it’s one of his signature fish-feeding videos. But when he uploads an actual fishing video, it’s usually a real winner. That’s definitely the case here. This one isn’t your usual gar fishing video. This fish is a 7-foot,

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Some Lightness for the Weekend

Some Lightness for the Weekend

I have been getting “out” and practicing some social distancing when I can.  But, like many, I have spent a lot of time recently watching stuff on the internet.  Let me share a couple that I liked: First one is an interesting, but short, battle with a muskie: If you have been reading my blog …

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Just an Eagle

Just an Eagle

Last spring, I received a call from conservation officer Matt Seitz who asked me to pick up an eagle that had fallen from a nest near Barneston. Although I was on vacation at the time, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to hold a baby eagle. I said I would get it and went out …

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New Research on Eastern Redcedar

New Research on Eastern Redcedar

For decades, mechanical removal has been a key strategy to control eastern redcedar, an invasive species sweeping north across the Great Plains. But new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln indicates that this method isn’t as successful as previously expected. Eastern redcedar moves aggressively, with the ability to convert open grasslands to woodland in as …

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Michigan DNR Shuts Down Fishing Guides and Charters Until April Over COVID-19 Concerns

Michigan DNR Shuts Down Fishing Guides and Charters Until April Over COVID-19 Concerns


Michigan Fishing Charters

Michigan DNR says fishing charters and guides cannot operate during emergency shutdown. The coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic is causing rippling problems across all aspects of everyday life. Now it is affecting fishing in the Great Lakes State. A few days after Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer declared “stay-at-home” orders to prevent the spread of the virus,

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