Wounding game is an inevitability that every bird hunter encounters. Many times we wound a bird and it sails down, but still very much alive. We immediately cast our dog to increase the chances of successfully retrieving the bird. Stunned by the dog’s abilities, we...
Gary Howey’s Outdoors Blog

Wisdom from a River Rat By Larry Myhre
Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal He stood quietly in the doorway of my office. A small, wiry old man wearing dirty bluejeans and a white T-shirt stained with weeks of sweat, dirt and who knows what else. He was about as tan as a white person can get, and from his...

Fishing the Spawn By gary Howey
The male bass arrives in the spawning area before the females as they have to locate and prepare the nest where they spawn. (Contributed Photo) Early Bass spring fishing is divided into three periods: Pre-spawn, Spawn and Post-spawn. Many anglers’ fish all of...
HIGH MOUNTAIN SEASONINGS SMOKED TURKEY
Ingredients: 1 Boned Wild Turkey Breast Hi Mountain Seasonings Game Bird and Poultry Brine Kit Hi Mountain Seasonings Rib Rub Olive Oil Optional: Wireless Thermometer Directions: In a non-metal container, prepare the Hi Mountain Seasonings Game Bird and Poultry Brine...
Fenix Rechargeable Mini Pocket Flashlight By gary Howey
Over the years, there has been numerous improvements in flashlights going from the large hand size that took the big D-cell batteries, with the one I had worked when it felt like it, needing to be slapped it against my leg to make it come back on. The Fenix...

It’s the Snows By gary Howey
This is the time of the year when you’ll hear “hundreds” of Snow Geese migrating north and because of the Special Conservation season, hunters have until May As we were coming back from Watertown, approaching the Missouri River north of Vermillion, the sky was...

Midwinter Predators By: gary Howey
Team Outdoorsmen Productions member Larry Myhre with the large Bobcat we took while calling Predators on the Rosebud Reservation in central South Dakota. (Gary Howey Photo) Predators, an animal that naturally preys on others, Coyotes, Fox, Bobcats, and Mountain...

THE GAMEKEEPERS OF MOSSY OAK-TURKEY SOUNDS: HOW & WHEN TO USE THEM BY: TES JOLLY
Good communication skills are a big part of success in the human world, and likewise when turkey hunting. If there’s one facet of hunting the grand bird that thrills hunters most, it’s being able to “talk turkey” with wild turkeys. The term actually originated with...