When mentoring, taking kids into the outdoors, taking them fishing, you don't need to catch big fish on your trips, but when they do, as seen by the smile on his face, it makes that trip "Special." (Photo by Gary Howey) This column pertains...
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Chronic Wasting Disease, Resulting in the Deers Death
Chronic Wasting Disease affects the brain of deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer and moose and once affected results in the death of the animal. Photo is of a deer is suffering from the early stages of CWD. (Photo Courtesy of the Wyoming Game & Fish Department)...
When the Weather is not fit for man or beast
Conservation groups such as those mentioned above, work hard to recruit youth into the hunting sports and once youths are introduced to the sport, those like Cazden Christensen, Hartington, NE. have an opportunity to enjoy the sport of hunting. Cazden who's really...
Nebraska Game & Parks on CWD
Game and Parks Commission reports results of chronic wasting disease testing LINCOLN, Neb. – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has tallied the results of its sampling efforts for chronic wasting disease in deer during the November 2019 firearm season, and the...
The Late Season-Below The Dams
Team Outdoorsmen Productions member Larry Myhre, Sioux City, IA. with one of the walleyes he took by casting jigs up to and on the ice and then retrieving the jig through the open water back to the boat. Before the water below the dams freezes and when...
214″ Booner Buck Taken on Public Land in Minnesota
Leo Van Beck proudly poses with his giant, 214-inch whitetail taken on public-land in Minnesota (Leo Van Beck photo) Realtree.com The young buck in Leo Van Beck’s 2017 trail camera photo showed incredible potential. It was already a 140- to...
One of Mother Nature’s Most Beautiful Art Forms A Deer antlers & its shed
The pedicle on the deer's head is where the antler grows from and where these antlers were shed, allowing the buck to grow their racks each year. (Dustin Lutt Photograph) Winter has just arrived and even though it's a ways off, I'm ready...
Late Season Pheasant Late Season Pheasant
It may be cold and windy, but hunters like Chuck Stone, from Watertown South Dakota know that some of the best pheasant hunting of the year will happen during the late season when the birds are in large flocks. (Gary Howey Photo) As we head into Christmas and...