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Earlier this year I drew a either species/either sex tag for the December rifle season in the western mule deer unit in Kansas. I've shot a pile of whitetails in my day, but I had never hunted mule deer. Even though my tag was good for either sex, I had already filled the freezer on a couple...

It occurred to me that I haven't posted here since teal season, so I figured post a season update and give a report of the weekend's activities. So far, I'm having one of my best seasons ever. I'm hunting 2-3 days a week and enjoying some good success. One of my go-to spots has been loaded with...

Hey all, I went out for the teal opener here this morning. I was at a very popular public marsh, but was able to find a secluded spot for myself. The big cold front last week pushed down lots of teal and some early migrant pintails and shovelers. Had a great hunt, but it was very short. I...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have arrived! I got a letter in the mail from USFWS asking me to partake in their annual wing survey (I guess that's what you call it), where they want you to send in a wing from every duck you bag. I would say they selected me because they know I'm an elite duck hunter...

I have a work table in my shed at work that gets leaked on when it rains hard. The building is an older sheet metal building, and even though I've looked, I can't locate where the water is coming from, I think it's seeping through a screw hole and running down before it drips, anyways, I...

Turkey Season opened a couple weeks ago here. I hadn't turkey hunted in almost 10 years. I kinda gave up on them after trying hard for a few years in a row without much success, but I was seeing a lot of turkeys, and hearing a lot of gobbling a couple weeks before season, so I enthusiastically...

Well, another duck season has come and gone for me. Saturday, I went and hunted the same spot from Tuesday. The birds were still there and I easily got a limit of 5 mallards...

On Monday evening I went for a quick scout and found a pile of mallards hanging out in the back of a small cove. I texted my coworker to see if he wanted to join for a quick before work hunt the next morning and he said "where and when?". Normally, I would wait for birds to leave for the feed...

Hi all. As some of you might recall, I moved from Florida to Kansas back in October. Soon after moving here I was spending a lot of time just getting the lay of the land and doing some scouting for hunting opportunities. I held off buying a hunting license for several weeks, hoping to wait the...

As some of you know, I'm preparing for a cross country move here in the next few weeks. This presented one problem, I own a canoe and a boat. I normally haul the canoe around in the bed of the truck (8 foot bed, 15 foot canoe). Obviously I can't do that when I'm trailering the boat, and the boat...

Florida's September teal/wood duck season opened on Saturday. I wasn't planning on going, since I'm in the middle of writing a Master's Thesis and I hadn't had time to scout. Fortunately, two friends of mine invited me to join them at a good wood duck hole they hunt every opener. I met my...

It's been a hot summer here in central Florida so far. The afternoon thunderstorms have been sparse, and when that happens it gets HOT here in the afternoons. Last week I checked the weather one afternoon and it was 99 degrees with a dew point of 72. My experience when it's that hot out is...

On the last two days of the season I shot a bluebill on freshwater and 2 over saltwater. I've heard in the past that saltwater ducks tend to have a stronger taste to them, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to do a head to head test. I wanted this experiment to be applicable to real-world...

As with a lot of folks around the country, this season was fairly slow for me. I also didn't get out as much as I normally do because of some work and school obligations that were in the way, but this last week I was able to get out 4 times and had some success. I was invited by a friend to...

I like to kick around on youtube and see what there is to see. I ran across this old 1940's newsreel video about the upland and waterfowl hunting opportunities in Iowa. It's interesting to think about everything that has changed since then. Some of the locations mentioned in the video are a...

I just returned from visiting my family in Iowa for Christmas. Had a great time as always and this year I decided ahead of time that I would lay down the $123 for a nonresident hunting license. I had heard that the pheasant counts were up and my best old hunting buddy reported very positive...

Well, the first 9 days is done here in Florida. I knew it would be a slow opener because it had been really warm all fall up to that point. I didn't have time to do any scouting and felt there were probably few birds around anyways, so for opening morning I went to a forest pond that had been...

Seems like there's a lot of guys that shoot on saltwater here. I'm thinking about trying some hunting on the Gulf coast here this season and have some questions about hunting tidewater. I've done a ton of inshore fishing but have always duck hunted freshwater. In this part of FL, we get a...

Hello all, I've been visiting this sight off and on for a year or so and figured I might as well join. There seems to be lots of good information and old school knowledge in the membership on here. Hopefully I'll be able to contribute some. I also love the demeanor of discussion on here...