Check out how the hunt for Smokey unfolded on video! Don Higgins had a year that all hunters dream of. He was able to fill both his Illinois buck tags and the bucks’ antler scores surpassed 400 inches. That’s about as good as it gets. I covered the story of his season in a previous
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I am always up on a soap-box promoting the diversity of fish & wildlife, hunting and fishing opportunities we have in Nebraska. With no closed season for fishing and long hunting seasons for a variety of species, it is very possible, and double the fun, to combine the activities! Fall is one of the best …
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Bowhunters need to get close to their quarry to make an ethical shot. However, Clay Newcomb got so close he actually touched the bear with his arrow! Black bears can be pretty curious animals. This big color phase bear gave Bear Hunting Magazine Editor Clay Newcomb a little more than he bargained for on his Saskatchewan hunt when it came
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Didn’t fill a tag this year? It’s no big deal! I failed to fill my tag again this year during Michigan’s firearms deer season. That makes four seasons in a row without me shooting a buck. The deer in the photo above is the last one I shot. Granted, I don’t really count 2014 because I
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Young hunter signs out of school in the most truthful way possible. Deer season is often the culprit of adults missing work and kids missing school. Most stick with cookie-cutter excuses like, “I’m not feeling well today” or “I have a doctors appointment.” This hunter’s 12-year-old daughter wrote the pure truth as her reason for missing school. When you
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Do you have what it takes to close the deal on a public land traditional archery bear hunt in Arkansas? This guy did and the video is awesome! Oklahoma and Arkansas are not considered premier bear hunting states, but there is a thriving population in the Ouachita Mountains that straddle the border between the two states. Bear
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These incredible tracked chairs mean there’s a way to enjoy the outdoors even if walking isn’t an option anymore. These vehicles really impress me. Sure, I was skeptical at first. I thought they’d tip over or get stuck, but the more I watched, the more I was convinced. These tracked chairs are unstoppable. For the
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They say hope is what we cling to when reality has left us with nothing else, but I have to disagree. As the minutes ticked down on the second-to-last day of my daughter’s first deer season, we weren’t clinging. We were hanging on by our fingernails. Thankfully, Emily had a champion’s attitude. She sat quietly for several morning and afternoon vigils, all from the ground, without seeing the first hint […]
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Do you really need water, pumps, pit blinds, lots of expensive decoys and to be part of a high-priced hunting lease to successfully hunt Canada geese in Nebraska? No, not necessarily. Field hunting for Canada geese is a ton of fun and can be very effective! It’s also much cheaper, easier and quicker than trying to establish a goose hunting spread with …
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GERING, Neb. – There may be a new state record among bighorn sheep harvested in Nebraska. Archery hunter Jason Bruce of Lockeford, California, claimed success during Nebraska’s bighorn sheep season with a massive ram taken on private property in the rocky Wildcat Hills near Gering on Saturday, Dec. 2. Todd Nordeen, the Nebraska Game and …
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