Gary Howey’s Outdoors
Late Season Pheasant Hunting By Gary Howey
Every year as the pheasant season progresses, pheasants become harder to locate and to get close enough for a decent shot. Younger birds have either learned from those pheasants taken...
Ice Fishing Then and Now By Gary Howey
The sport of ice fishing has really changed a lot from when I started ice fishing as a kid back in Watertown, South Dakota. Our clothing we wore outside in the winter, whether it...
Advantages Of Supplemental Feeding Deer
Nutrition For Your Deer Herd Providing a year-round source of nutrition for your whitetail herd is very important. Inadequate nutrition leads to weight loss, poor conception rates, lower fawn...
Early Ice By Gary Howey
I know it is hard to believe, but its December and the time of the year when people really start to think seriously about ice fishing. As soon as Thanksgiving is over, the phones in...
My First Wabbit Hunt By Gary Howey
As a kid growing up in N.E. South Dakota, my friends and I would pursue what we thought was big game that inhabited the thickets and woodlot along the Sioux River, the Wily Wabbit. ...
Making a Difference For Wildlife By Gary Howey
On a recent trip, I stopped at a cafe and sat down with a group of locals having coffee. Not long after I sat down, the main topic of our conversation turned to hunting and how it changed...
Mid-Season Pheasants South Dakota Style By Gary Howey
Lady, Gary Kubicek's lab worked out in front of us as did some of Joel Vasek's dogs and by the way, they were acting, we had better be ready as they were on a bird. The...
Creating Funnels
Whitetails are lazy animals and will almost always take the path of least resistance. An example would be a creek crossing. Both bucks and does would much rather cross the creek in a spot where the...