The Congo’s most notorious elephant poacher will serve 30 years in prison. One of the more frustrating aspects about wildlife crime is when violators get away with a slap on the wrist for their crimes. Prison sentences are exceedingly rare, but one poacher in the Republic of Congo has been ordered to serve 30 years
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The Harvest Information Program, or HIP Certification, is in place for good reason. Here’s what you need to know as a migratory bird hunter. Migratory bird hunters come in several forms, but as avid outdoorsmen and women, we should all try to understand what the Harvest Information Program is and why it is so important.
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Will apple flavored corn really attract deer better than normal? Most of you have probably walked through a Walmart store and have either seen it or smelled it. Corn is billed as a staple of any deer’s diet that lives near cornfields, and this stuff is supplemented with an apple flavoring that’s coating the corn to
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Sometimes a bit of bad luck turns around in a hurry! Wisconsin is the land of the giant whitetails as almost any deer hunter knows. Every year, thousands of hunters head to the woods of the Badger state hoping to write their own story of a legendary whitetail. Some of them try to capture the
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Fall sports have been cancelled, postponed or will be highly regulated. Yes, there is no Husker football this season. Bars, restaurants and gatherings are being limited or restricted. Mask wearing mandates are in effect for various businesses and in the cities of Omaha and Lincoln. These are certainly very strange times. One of the oldest …
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How long should it really take for a new hunter to kill a deer with a crossbow? Crossbow hunting has always been something of a hot topic, but the debate has calmed down a bit in recent years as more states have relaxed their previously stringent rules on using them during regular archery seasons. Yet
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New contributor Ryan Vince shares his easy instructions for learning how to make a deer feeder the DIY way. While walking around Bass Pro Shops I found myself gazing at the variety of game feeders available. This season I was working a new set of properties available to me. Given the fact that most of
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If you’re struggling with the gamey taste in wild meat, start here. You spend a lot of time, effort and money in going about chasing down wild game for the freezer. The last thing you want in wild meat is a gamey taste when it comes time to cook it. All is not lost if the
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You know your decoy is realistic-looking when this happens. Decoys have one sole purpose, and that’s to lure game animals in. Whether they attract the correct species, however, is another story. Brent Hansen watched a hungry bobcat stealthily work its way in to his lone decoy while turkey hunting in Missouri May 3. Then this
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These are the best hunting games ever made. While most hunters want to spend most of their time in the woods pursuing the animals themselves, there are plenty of us out there who have filled the gaps between seasons with hunting games on PC or video game consoles. The gameplay of these hunting simulators was
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