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I sort of cruised through the stop sign. That’s when the cop hit his lights in the dark. I hadn’t seen him lying in wait. It was pre-dawn and spring turkey season. “License and registration, please?” he said. I’d never seen this guy before in my life.
Not a good way to start out a spring gobbler season morning. My shotgun was cased; my jacket nothing special—I’d yet to dress for turkey hunting. Hunting bumper stickers on the back of my old pickup told the story though.
Come on, man, I thought silently as he checked my driving record in his cruiser. [ Read Full Post ]
Each year, we round up photos of the country's biggest bucks and most thrilling hunting stories for the Outdoor Life Deer of the Year contest. Now, we're calling on you to help us pick America's best buck. We've selected the 24 finalists and divided them by region. Twice a week we'll run a March Madness-style bracket asking you to select the winner of each matchup. The 8 best deer from the Midwest region kicks off our Battle of the Bucks competition. The overall winner will be awarded a Cabela's gift card and a Weaver range finder in addition to eternal bragging rights. So click through the match-ups (we'll feature new round every Wednesday and Friday) and help us find a winner of Outdoor Life's Battle of the Bucks 2013! Select your favorite buck from each match-up and then hit the submit button at the bottom to enter your votes. [ Read Full Post ]
Sam Heaton, who has been around fishing all his life, spent 25 years as a crappie guide on Alabama’s famed Weiss Lake. In time, he moved along in his fishing career, and now he is one of the primary in-the-field men for MinnKota and Humminbird.
But Heaton still knows crappies, and he catches them across America like few others can. In fact, his instructional Crappie Fishing Techniques remains one of Bass Pro Shops’ best-selling DVDs of all time—more than 25 years after it was introduced. [ Read Full Post ]
After posting his "manifesto" on Facebook outlining plans for a revenge-fueled murder spree targeted at law enforcement officers, Christopher Dorner had been a fugitive in the California’s San Bernardino National Forest for nearly a week. He had already killed three people, and he would add one more murder to that tally before his reign of terror came to an end.
On February 12, Dorner was spotted by law enforcement officers as he drove a stolen car behind a pair of school buses on State Route 38. The officers lost track of that vehicle, but they didn’t lose track of Dorner. Knowing the mountain roads well, they found him again as he passed them in yet another stolen vehicle, this one a white pickup.
When Dorner saw the officers, he opened fire spraying bullets through the front windshield and driver’s door window. Several bullets pierced the vehicle’s cabin, including one that lodged in a seat just 10 inches from the driver’s head. [ Read Full Post ]
The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved Sen. Dianne Feinstein's proposed semi-automatics firearm ban in a 10-8 partisan vote that sends the bill to the full Senate with little chance of passing.
In fact, the proposed semi-auto ban is likely to be banished to legislative limbo without being presented for a vote because it is doubtful supporters can muster the 60-vote threshold necessary to foil a filibuster in the 100-seat Senate. [ Read Full Post ]
Some of us might not yet know it from looking out the window, but spring is indeed on its way and the time is right for frost-seeding food plots. Frost-seeding can go a long way to repair existing plots or provide a way to plant deer-attracting forage if you don’t own farming equipment.
Frost seeding refers to a spring seeding procedure whereby food plot seed is spread either directly on snow cover or on bare ground and left to make it’s way into the soil with the help of the alternating freezes and thaws of late winter. No special equipment (other than a simple hand seeder) is required and the results can be quite satisfactory. [ Read Full Post ]
Classes at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas were interrupted last week when a two-year-old whitetail buck decided to tour the campus.
The buck was first spotted near an intersection off campus around 11:20 a.m. The ASU Police Department was notified shortly thereafter that the buck was butting heads with the administration building. Chief James Adams told the San Angelo Standard-Times that the department’s initial concern was property damage. [ Read Full Post ]
For most of us, shooting at a running herd of elk doesn't equate to a high-percentage shot. And, depending on the circumstances, it could be a downright unethical shot. But should it be illegal?
Grand Teton National Park is approaching this issue with a new regulation. Each year the park holds a restricted hunt to curb its elk population. Next season it will ban hunters from taking more than one shot at a herd of running elk. [ Read Full Post ]
Man's best friend for tens-of-thousands of years, the domestic dog has filled specific niches as a hunter, guard and beast of burden. Just how long we’ve manipulated the genetic code of dogs and bred them to fill those roles has been debated. However, new DNA evidence from a canine-like animal in central Asia has begun to put the debate to rest. [ Read Full Post ]
Recurring allegations continue to surface in cyberspace that the Bank of America has adopted a policy prohibiting it from doing business with firearms manufacturers and retailers.
BoA, one of the world's largest financial institutions with 57 million individual banking accounts and four million small business customers, has been the focus of enmity on many pro-Second Amendment websites since April last year.
In April 2012, McMillan Manufacturing in Phoenix, Ariz., claimed BoA told the firearms-maker, a 12-year customer of the bank, that the "company's business would no longer be welcomed ... because (it) manufactures firearms." [ Read Full Post ]
Having to start a fire on top of snow is one of those things that you never really think about, until you have to do it. In areas with little snow, you can always dig down to the soil surface to build your fire. But if the snow is very deep, you lack digging tools, or you don’t have time to dig, building a fire on top of the snow is the best option—if you do it right. You can certainly start a fire literally on top of the snow, but it won’t last very long as the snow will melt and douse your coals. [ Read Full Post ]
This newly ordained longbeard has arrived on the scene and is ready for some action. After being bullied out of the breeding loop as a jake, he wants to play the game and seems to know he can. He’s the bird many of us end up killing in the spring. He’s not always easy. Some different tactics might be needed. [ Read Full Post ]
One of the greatest strengths of a crankbait is that it can fish a lot of water quickly. Most of the time you should retrieve crankbaits quickly, work them deep, and rip them through the weeds or bounce them over rocks. [ Read Full Post ]
A hunter paid an astronomical $310,000 for the privilege of hunting a Utah mule deer because the deer in that state are made of platinum and gold nuggets. Ok, not really.
He purchased the hunt because the money will go to a great cause, and he'll have the chance to take a monster buck. [ Read Full Post ]
Panfish action is heating up across the ice belt and you can cash in now with a short lesson on the art of tightlining.
To the uninitiated, tightlining is a form of sightfishing, but instead of actually seeing the fish, you are watching the line down in the ice hole attempting to discern subtle changes in the load on the line. Even though Mike Boedeker, Team USA co-captain, was hot in the medal hunt last month at the World Ice Fishing Championships in Wisconsin, he took the time to teach us the essence of his flavor of tightlining. He was probably the only fisherman in the field not using a spring bobber as a bite-detection aid. [ Read Full Post ]
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