FOND DU LAC — A large crowd gathered Monday afternoon in front of Dutch's Trading Post as sportsmen and passers-by admired "Lucky Buck" — an elusive 30-point whitetail buck taken by bow Sunday night west of Fond du Lac. Fond du Lac resident Wayne Schumacher was accepting h...
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Opening Day of Michigan Bow Season 2009 It's about 5:30 a.m. and I am wide awake. I have butterflies in my stomach as if I was 12 years old. It is opening day of bow season in Michigan and I am up north at Timber Ridge Ranch. It is a perfect 35 degrees and the wind is dead calm. The ground is covered in a hard frost. The skies are ...
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PA BOARD APPROVES EXPANDED USE OF CROSSBOWSThe Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today gave final approval to expand the lawful use of crossbows to include both the archery deer and bear seasons for the 2009-10 seasons.  The Board amended the proposal by including a sunset date for the expanded crossbow use that will require a future Board to vote on the measure again be...
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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 bo...
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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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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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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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    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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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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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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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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