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3 Steps to Coyote-Calling Success

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Joe Byers
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Coyotes are abundant in most parts of the country, and winter is an excellent time to call them due to the scarceness of food. Despite the greater potential for success, outfoxing this master predator takes care and specific set-up choices. Travis Faulkner of Sportsman Channel gives three specific tips to boost calling success, easy steps you can take the next time out.

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Make no mistake; wily and cunning predators, like coyotes, can take a serious toll on whitetail and turkey populations. This is especially true when newborn fawns and poults are on the move during the spring and early months of summer. The good news is you can do something about it.

Predator hunting right now is a great way to manage your favorite whitetail and longbeard honey-holes. Plus, tangling with coyotes at the end of deer season gives you additional opportunities to hone your hunting skills, and it’s just flat out fun.  Here are some lethal predator control tips and tactics that will have you knocking noses into the dirt this winter.

Stay Under Their Radar

If you’re going to be a successful predator hunter, then you better learn to respect a coyote’s keen sense of smell… [continued]

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Try This DIY Cow-Horn Turkey Call

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Jason Houser
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Are you looking for a unique way to call in turkeys? Try making your own call out of a cow horn like your ancestors did.

This call will make lifelike yelps that will attract spring turkeys in the spring and fall.

The instructions can be found at Field & Stream‘s website.

Hailing from eastern Virginia a century ago, this call was employed for fall turkey hunting, though its high-pitched yelps will work equally well in the spring. It operates like a wingbone yelper, but the cow horn softens and directs the sound of the call. With practice, you can add clucks to your repertoir [continued]

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Turtle’s Heart, Removed from Body, Keeps Beating [VIDEO]

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Jason Houser
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Snapping turtles are tough creatures. If you’ve ever caught one, you know what I mean.

If you’ve cleaned one, have you ever taken a close look at its heart? They’re a lot like the Energizer Bunny. It just keeps beating and beating. I have even witnessed as snapping turtle clamp down on a stick after its head had been removed.

No wonder they’re so dangerous when they are alive.

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Four Must-Haves for the Dove Season Opener

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Joe Byers
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Dove season is just around the corner, one of the more fun and social hunts in the country.

In many areas offering liberal bag limits, the weather is warm and hunting is limited to the afternoon, eliminating the early morning rise.

The challenge of dove hunting is hitting these evasive targets. Most shooters take a couple of boxes of shells (probably more than 100 rounds) in the hopes of bagging a limit.

Like any type of hunting, the right gear can make your hunt more comfortable and successful. Bill Miller suggests these must-have items in an OutdoorHub post.

dove-hunting-041211[1]For the devoted wingshooting hunter, spring and summer are filled with clay target shooting. Doves represent the first real hunting opportunity of the fall. Satisfying as a smoked clay target can be, it’s never a 100 percent substitute for real feathers on real birds that can make erratic, evasive maneuvers—and result in terrific table fare. That’s why the traditional early September opening of dove season is such a big deal.

Except for turkey hunting—which is a whole different shotgunning ballgame—you likely have been away from the hunting field since the spring goose seasons ended. Are you ready to enjoy opening day?

Here are some things to put on your checklist to enjoy the opener to its fullest.

The Perfect Small Pack for the On-the-Go Hunter

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Joe Byers
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A small pack is like the desktop of a computer: There’s just enough room for the essentials.

If you  hunt before or after work, you want to make the most of every minute. That usually means a “grab-‘n-go” pack that contains a few scents, a release, rangefinder,  jerky sticks, and camp paint. You know, the important stuff.

Like your computer desktop, you want those essential hunting items at the ready and you want to know exactly where they are at all times.

Tenzing just introduced the perfect small pack that has many functions, one that’s ideal for the hunter on the go.

TZ721_45With a breathable mesh waist, padded hip panels and a highly adjustable waist belt system, the 2-pound TZ 721 is designed to be worn as an unobtrusive fanny pack while traveling to or from the field. Once its wearer settles into the stand, however, the TZ 721 can be quickly and easily repositioned to the front to keep contents accessible and make use of the plush, built-in muff as a convenient and cozy place for cold hands.  But the TZ 721 Waist Pack’s creature comforts don’t end there. Four specialized pockets — carefully placed in strategic positions — accept hand warmers to heat the hunter’s core.

Available in Realtree Xtra and Mossy Oak Break-Up Infinity, the TZ 721 excels at storing small items inside its 17 total compartments and pockets that might otherwise get lost inside larger packs. There’s a place for everything, starting with the hunter’s mobile device. A pocket inside the top flap of the main compartment allows for smartphone operation without ever removing it from the pack. Open-topped side compartments secure with adjustable bungees are ideal for rangefinders and binoculars, while the pack’s face pocket and sub-compartments are great places for calls, tags, wallet and extra ammunition. The TZ 721’s 294 cubic-inch main compartment is perfect for gloves, hats, knives, keys or cameras. Webbing and compression straps on the pack’s bottom come in handy for securing extra items like rattling antlers or a jacket.

Last-Minute Food Plots: It’s Not Too Late

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Joe Byers
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Where did the summer go? I can’t wait until opening day. I’ll bet you can’t, either.

I wanted to set up a food plot near my remote deer stand on top of a mountain. If you’re like me, this announcement is a life saver for the procrastinating deer hunter who wants the attraction of great whitetail groceries, yet didn’t get around to planting those seeds in the ground. I’ve used this seed in previous years and have found that it sprouts well and holds deer even through the late muzzleloading season, when anything green is a deer magnet. Most of all, this seed in inexpensive, so you can get enough to plant almost any remote patch for about $30. The seed is designed to be planted without heavy equipment, even hand tools, and the plants need only 3–4 hours of sunlight to grow. Here’s the deal.

<pSometimes, the best spots for food plots can be the toughest places to maneuver heavy equipment. If you can get there by 4-wheeler or foot and the area gets 3 to 4 hours of sunlight a day, Imperial No-Plow can give you a hardy, fast-growing crop of highly nutritious and attractive forage. No-Plow is a high-protein annual that can provide up to 9 months of attraction and nutrition for optimal deer growth and antler development — and preparation can be done with as little as hand tools.

  • Includes specially selected cereal grains, annual clovers, brassica, radish and lettuce
  • Highly attractive annual forage specifically designed for areas hard to access with farming equipment (logging roads, remote clearings, etc.)
  • Can be planted either in a fully prepared seedbed, or with minimal ground preparation sufficient to establish good seed-to-soil contact
  • Extremely drought and cold tolerant
  • Establishes quickly and grows rapidly
  • Tolerates as little as only 3–4 hours of broken or filtered sunlight a day

Would You Get This Close to a Bull Moose? [VIDEO]

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Jason Houser
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Bowhunters like to be as close to the animal as possible for shooting.

But it’s possible to be too close.

I think this bowhunter was on the edge of being a little too close. Five yards from a mature bull moose, with only the open air separating you from the giant, is close. Not to mention that the only defense if the moose decided to charge is an arrow.

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Glenn Beck to Speak at 2015 SCI Convention

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Joe Byers
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Attending a Safari Club International convention is like a hunting trip for adventure. Every sportsman should make this pilgrimage at least once in a lifetime. The taxidermy is beyond belief, and you’ll meet hunters and sportsmen from around the world.  If you need one more perk to put this important date on your calendar, come hear Glenn Beck speak. Here are the details.

Glenn Beck, one of America’s leading multi-media personalities, will be speaking the evening of Saturday, February 7 at the 2015 SCI Hunters’ Convention at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Known for his quick wit, candid opinions and engaging personality, Beck has the third highest rated radio program in America. Beck is also noted for making TheBlaze TV, one of the world’s largest streaming video networks.

“We are excited to be hosting such a renowned speaker,” says Libby Grimes, Director SCI Convention & Event Planning. “His inspiring and honest tales about Americanism today are sure to hit a home run with those in attendance.”  Beck is also the author of seven #1 New York Times Bestsellers. He also stars in live stage shows, is editor of GlennBeck.com, and the publisher or TheBlaze.com. Beck’s Restoring Honor Event in August 2010 drew hundreds of thousands of people to the Mall in Washington, D.C. Previously, Beck hosted a phenomenally successful daily show on Fox News.

Pursuing North America’s Largest Predator

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Joe Byers
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Alaska Bear one 134Alaska’s brown bears are grizzlies on steroids (okay, it’s actually salmon). They dwarf their grizzled brethren that live in Alaska’s interior. Enormous in size, ferocious on a charge, and packing a nose that can smell a human two miles away, they are the ultimate big-game challenge.

Career hunter Bob Foulkrod takes you through this amazing adventure as part of the Winchester Legends video series. It’s not stalking these enormous predators up north, but its close. Check out the video.

Photo: National Geographic

How to Select a Jighead for Bass Fishing

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Joe Sarmiento
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When you’re first learning the fishery for a given area, you look around and see what the local, successful anglers are using. It’s a slow process because the best fishermen are taking their cues from the changing environment around them and adapting their gear and techniques to those changes. When you’re merely copying, you always seem to be a step behind. Slowly, though, the reasons the top anglers do what they do begin to reveal themselves to you, and you improve. There’s no substitute for time on the water.

In this great article from Wired2Fish, you’ll learn a valuable shortcut and get an explanation of the whys and whens behind choosing a particular style of jighead.

football-jig-bass-fishingWe’ve had a great response to our blog on five custom skirts you can build on your own for skirted bass jigs. We appreciate the feedback and response to that piece and we wanted to follow that up with one on a reoccurring question, what jigheads to we like to put these skirts on when bass fishing. Great question and one that certainly should be addressed.

In my mind there are really five major jighead types for skirted bass jigs. There are certainly multitudes beyond that of different shapes for each of the five major categories, for as we know in fishing, everyone wants something just a little different. But for the most part I would say the five classes of jigheads for skirted jigs would be a football jig, a swim jig, a finesse round ball jig, an Arkie or other flipping head, and a casting head.

Certainly you can swim an Arkie head or cast a ball head so there is a grey area when it comes to the application of different style heads. But I’ll go into why I think each head style is unique and the application for it is unique. But will I have all five jigheads on the deck of my boat at one time? Usually I will not. I might have a flipping jig, a football jig and a swim jig at one time on there but hardly ever all three. But when I go to different locales, I start filling my box with one particular type or another based on the situations I expect to face.

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Photos: Wired2Fish

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