Big shifts in the way states are tackling hog hunting efforts now extend to those who don’t even have licenses. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott has signed a bill allowing feral hog hunting without a license in the state. The rule only applies to private land, however there is no closed season and no bag limits
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When it comes down to a snake vs. frog for bragging rights, one usually ends up as a bump in the belly just like this. First off, this may be a fairly common European grass snake, but it has taken the uncommon road of trying to swallow its prey backwards. In a “man-to-man” contest sometimes
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When a gobbler gets this close you could almost clobber him on the head with your gun barrel, but do this instead. There’s turkey reaping and then there’s good, old fashioned, get-him-in-close-and-pop-him spring turkey hunting. Once you have spring gobblers interested you may be fortunate enough to get a shot off at him, but when
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This is the season to mentor a new hunter. Hunter numbers are in serious decline. Enough that you and every other hunter out there should be concerned about it. There simply aren’t enough new hunters coming into the tradition to replace those who leave. What can we do about it? There is only one way.
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This recipe is an homage to all the cheap Burger King and Jack-in-the-Box fried tacos I ate as a teenager, except my version will actually taste good. You’ll get all the crunchy, greasy goodness your heart desires, along with a spicy, real-meat turkey filling hunted by you – nothing like the gray “meat” paste the …
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Canoeists in New York captured some unbelievable shots of a rare Adirondack moose in its natural environment. Some fortunate canoeists on the water in Adirondack Park were able to capture some incredible footage of a bull moose feeding. The film is so good that a screenshot of it looks just like a painting. Watch and
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Why aren’t people being significantly paid to reduce wild hog populations? There is a war going on in the southern United States. Texas is ground zero, and for the most part, the troops fighting it aren’t being paid. Wild, feral hogs have exploded in population and despite hundreds of thousands of rounds being fired on
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Watch this professional butcher bone out a deer and see if you’ve been doing it wrong all along. Knowing the correct way to bone out a deer and process the your own meat will save you money and add to your enjoyment of the hunt. By processing your own animals, you’ll also have total control
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Here is the decision on Herrera v. Wyoming, and what it means for hunting. It isn’t often that a hunting case pops up in the United States Supreme Court, but that is just what has happened with a 2014 case that crosses Montana and Wyoming state lines, into a National Forest, and involves the harvest
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These are the most annoying things people do in their outdoor adventures. We love the great outdoors. We love getting away from it all and spending time in our precious outdoor spaces, hunting fishing, and camping. But at the same time, there are things our fellow outdoorsmen and women do that annoy us. In fact,
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