Tough Bucks

The older I get, the smarter I should get.  I’m working on it (getting smarter), but sometimes when you are in the heat of the moment, the little things that matter can be quickly forgotten. As was the case with the buck that I stopped (with a mouth grunt) that was chasing a doe and…

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A New Season

It’s time for a change, or should I say changes.  The fall is quickly turning into winter here in Minnesota and people are already hitting the ice and pulling up fish.  It’s that transitional time here in Minnesota.  The “north zone” duck season just closed yesterday at sunset and like so many years, it would…

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Hunting With The Boys

I am fresh off a trip to our neighboring state of Wisconsin where I was fishing bass with Jimmy Bell on Lake Superior.  That just doesn’t sound right does it?  But it is right, we were on Chequamegon Bay near Ashland, WI and absolutely hammered the monster smallmouth bass!  And as exciting as it was,…

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Hunting For Pronghorn

I’m back from a successful Wyoming pronghorn hunt. I sent my last column to the Brainerd Dispatch from my blind (via my IPhone) an hour or so before I harvested a nice pronghorn with my bow and arrow. I shot the buck at about 10:30 a.m. last Friday morning as he was coming to a…

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