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September 7, 2008

How to Build a Long Bow
I am going to show the steps in making a bow for my son. I am not an expert by any stretch. This will be a build along sort of thread but I must warn you that this will be slow going. I have many projects in the works with much stricter time lines than finishing this bow for my son so there will be periods of inactivity. Thats just real life.This bow will be a reflex/deflex Long bow. It is a hybrid combination of a longbow and a recurve. Longbows are typically straight when unstrung and recurves are still curved even when unstrung. This bow will look sort of like a recurve whil

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Western Buffalo Hunt, Project Bison
I've been asked by a friend (the guy who shot the deer with the broadhead in the brain) To outfit him with a arrow and broadhead combination for a February Buffalo hunt out West. He is using his current whitetail bow but wants more than the 350 grain arrow/broadhead set up he uses for deer. I agree with that. Everything I have heard and read about Bison is that you should be shooting for the h...
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I Love Wisconsin
Well, first off I'll take some time to introduce myself. My name is Jeff Sturgis and I'm from MI. I LOVE hunting mature bucks so although I still have a passion for hunting my home state of MI, my "real" hunting is often done in Vernon County WI. I also am in the whitetail business a bit as the owner of www.whitetailhabitatsol...
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The Bathtub Bear
I got a little excited when a good friend, Dave, showed me a picture of a monster bear that was coming into a friend's brother's backyard deer feeder near Wausau, Wisconsin. The feeder was an antique bathtub filled with corn. The bear in the picture had two legs on each side of the feeder, it looked like a big black bus parked over the top of the tub. The next picture was of a big old be...
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The Legend of Preacher's Point
    A deep voice over the phone asked if I had placed an ad in the Florida newspaper looking for bow hunting clients for my guiding service. I said, "Yes Sir, I placed that ad."The voice then asked every conceivable question about hunting Wisconsin's whitetails. At the end of the conversation he asked the usual question, "How much is this going to cost me?" I told hi...
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Big Eight Whitetail
It was a hot, Saturday evening in mid-July. All of my buddies were getting ready to go out. They asked me to go with them for a fun night of drinking and card playing. "Go with them?" I thought. "What a silly question!" This late in the summer and I still did not have a solid lead on a shooter buck. Partying would have to wait.As the sun set on the summer sky, I sat with my back to a...
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Last Day Reflections, 07 Wi. Bow Season
I hear allot of talk about hunters waiting for the cold weather to go hunting...  Apparently a lot of folks think in winter you need to hunt in the bitter cold to get movement... But here it is last day and its pretty warm...  I have always felt that there are advantages as to why to hunt every day, and that if hunters get out of certain routines of always hunting the same way, they can ...
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Potential Expansion of Crossbows in WI
It looks as though WI might have crossbow hunting for all ages and all abilities sooner than even I thought it might. This push is not coming from the crossbow manufacturers as is typically claimed. It is coming from hunters who want to use the weapon but it not coming from deer hunters. Back in spring, both the WI NWTF and the WI bear hunters voted to seek a rules change that would allow tho...
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FIVE STEP PROGRAM FOR QUALITY WHITETAILS
Nothing strikes fear in the heart of a bowhunter like the sound of hoof steps behind him. It can paralyze you with terror unless youre ready for it. I heard that petrifying sound one November morning in North Dakota, just as the day filtered into the trees. It stunned me because I fully expected approaching deer to come from any other point on the compass except north....
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Stand Safety
In the South almost all of the deer hunters are hunting from the tree stands. Hunting from above gives you several advantages, such as remaining above a deer's field of view, keeping your scent above the deers nose, as well as often increasing our visibility of the woods. Unfortunately, as the use of tree stands increases, so has the number of hunters injuring themselves through th...
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The Problem with Buck Fever
As October fades into November, for many people thoughts of ducks are replaced by visions of bucks. As we head into another season my mind is full of thoughts of buck fever. In essence, the fever is an adrenaline rush, triggered by a deer, that sometimes causes hunters to do something that may be out of the ordinary â€" like miss an otherwise easy shot. While most ...
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Butchering your own
While butchering a bow kill, I took some pictures of two other parts of the deer that you would encounter while doing your own processing. These are the tenderloins and the front shoulders. The tenderloins are the two small cuts of meat on the inside of the deer's rib cage. (the loins are on the outside and run along either side of the spine) These are the most tender of all the cuts of meat ...
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