I sat down in my usual opening day spot on the river about a half hour before the season opened and looked down at Xena. I noticed how much gray she had on her face. She was eleven years old now but still had the heart of a two year old. I just couldn’t leave her behind this year. Her hearing isn’t that good and she definitely has her own way of doing things, but she can still retrieve. She was changing. READ MORE.......

Murphy and my Wife

I grabbed the DNR post cards out of the mail box quickly to see what turkey season the DNR blessed me with this year. I looked, than looked again, than paused and thought, "oh well, maybe this year will be different". "Read More"

As my Uncle Al, friend Gary and I started the leg burning heart pounding climb to the top of the ridge, we heard the loud crack of my eighteen year old son Sean’s 270 caliber rifle and we knew the "push" worked. He called us on the radio and said "I got a nice buck and there is the mother of all does standing near, should I shoot her too?" Before I could answer, "BANG". I guess he made up his own mind. The doe was huge, and Sean had two doe tags along with the buck tag. He had his work cut out for him as we had to keep going. Bridgette, Gary’s 14 year old granddaughter was also in hiding at the other side of the farm, waiting for a deer to move her way.

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Although I’ve introduced lots of people to duck hunting including some youngsters like my two sons, nephews and some kids of my friends, I never get tired of watching them the first time they shoot a duck, deer or turkey. It’s comparable to them catching their first fish but much more intense. This year I was fortunate enough to introduce my twelve year old daughter Haley to hunting. We missed the spring turkey hunt because of fast pitch softball and basketball commitments so we made plans for the 2008 youth duck hunt as well as the youth deer hunt in October.

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Although most springtime scouting excursions focus on shed hunting, you can gain all kinds of info about game in general. Getting up early in the morning reveals pheasant cackles, turkey gobbles, grouse drumings as well as the number of deer in the area.

Depending on how early in the year it is will divulge the accuracy of the trip. For example, if you’re scouting a wetland or area that has a lot of water around in early April and you see lots of blue wing teal ducks, it may be that they’re just migrating through the area.

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The Warden received the call from the dispatcher that a 911 call was just made out of the small Wisconsin Mississippi river town of Ferryville. The first 911 call since the service was recently installed there. The caller had said he was at the Ferryville boat landing and heard people calling for help out on the river. He said he was unable to see anyone floating in the water but said that because of high winds the waves were very big.

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After reading "The Big Spill" you probably noticed several thing’s we did or did not do to create what happened. Some good and some bad. Obviously putting on the life vests was critical and made survival possible. After leaving the boat and not calling the dog was in my opinion also critical as the dog could have tried to climb on us making swimming impossible. But their was also a lot of thing’s we could have done to change the events. "READ MORE"......

Doves and Water

By Rick Spoerl

With the upcoming opener of the Wisconsin dove season on its way, we need to think about grabbing the can of mosquito spray, a bottle of water, and the dogs and head out on a little jaunt to the public hunting grounds for a scouting trip. READ MORE.......

The sun was halfway below the tree line and although this late summer day was a scorcher, the air had cooled considerably. This was a typical early September evening in southern Wisconsin.

Woodcocks seem to be the topic in most woodcock combo articles, but woodcocks, ducks and pheasants? I don’t adorn the English vest, high top boots nor shoot game birds with an over and under. I don’t search out earthworm hangouts or follow migration patterns of the little chunky guys, but I do love to shoot them. I’ve never seen woodcocks while grouse hunting in Wisconsin. I have however seen them while hunting ducks and pheasants. The grouse I hunt are usually in drier ground than woodcocks prefer. "READ MORE".........

"Excuse me officer, me and my gang banger buddies here would like to surrender our handguns to you because of the recently passed hand gun ban". I don’t think so. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to know that if a federal law outlawing hand guns is passed, murderers, rapists, robbers and any other hardened criminal would be the last to turn in their guns. In Britain and Australia every legitimate member of a licensed gun club had to hand in their guns. Gun crimes in those countries rose 103% from 1997-2002. Why? Criminals now know when entering a house, mugging someone, raping someone or robbing a business that because of the legislatures false hopes of controlling crime that there is a slim chance their victim will be able to protect themselves. This leaves us extremely venerable to attack. Not vulnerable because we don’t have guns, but more vulnerable because the criminal knows we aren’t armed. "READ MORE".......

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