The Summer Olympics are just a couple of months away, and countries are getting their teams set for competition. But, the women’s archery contest is getting heated in Australia a little ahead of schedule. Odette Snazelle and Elisa Barnard are rivals competing for the coveted spot on the Australia archery team, and their feud is getting [...]
Australian, Olympic-Hopeful, Female Archers Take Feud To Court
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Coyotes Triumph
Little Red Riding Hood should be watching her back for coyotes, not wolves. Fascinating story here from Nature magazine via Scientific American about the ascent of coyotes, who’ve filled a vacuum created by the demise of wolves, cougars and bobcats. Here’s an excerpt from Sharon Levy’s article: “Researchers have long known the coyote as a [...]
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Man Harvests Trophy Buck in Illinois. Ships its Testicles to Louisiana
Talk about not letting anything go to waste. Last November, Mike Toney shot a 200-plus-inch monster whitetail deer in Illinois. Toney estimates that it weighed about 275 pounds, and as soon as he shot the deer, he thought about its sperm. Toney heard about Louisiana State University’s AgCenter Research Extension project, so he contacted them to see [...]
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Facts about Turkeys
Did you know that in the early1900s the poplutaion of wild turkeys reached an all time low around 30,000. The eastern wild turkey is the most numerous out of the 6 subspecies, with more than 5 million. You can tell the gender of the wild turkey just by looking at their droppings. A male turkeys droppings [...]
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Mitchell Guist 911 Tape Released
We are still waiting to find out the autopsy findings from Mitchell Guist’s untimely death on Monday. Reports are varied as to what has happened, but it sounds like Guist was doing repairs on a houseboat when he collapsed and fell back in his boat in the swamps of Louisiana. The Swamp People star would [...]
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Pro Hockey Player Under Fire for Posting Bear Hunt Video and Photo on Twitter
David Booth plays left wing for the Vancouver Canucks, and, among other things, the NHLer enjoys hunting. He went on a spring bear hunt in Alberta, and took to Twitter to celebrate his success, and that’s where things got messy. Using a bow, Booth downed the bear while hunting over bait, which is the most [...]
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Maryland the Next State to Have Elk?
While western states are struggling to keep their elk populations healthy thanks to wolves (and other various problems), the elk that have been reintroduced in eastern states are thriving. There are hunting populations in Kentucky and Pennsylvania, and this spring, elk will be introduced in Virginia. And Old Dominion’s neighboring state, Maryland, may be the [...]
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Eight Deer Wander Into Town, Wreak Havoc in Minnesota
It’s not that people in Moorhead, Minn. aren’t used to seeing deer, but they’ve never seen a herd of eight get spooked downtown, and it caused quite a bit of damage. According to WDAY.com, the eight deer got disoriented and started smashing widows and doors and one getting hit by a car. The damage was [...]
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Dog Saves 14-Year-Old From Rattlesnake
Daniel Whitman, 14, was out with his 5-year-old Siberian Husky-mix rescue dog, cleaning up after it, when he heard the rattle. The rattlesnake was coiled up in the Whitman’s backyard in Monrovia, Calif., and Daniel and his dog, Boone, started running back to the house. But, Boone got between the snake and the boy, and [...]
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British Fox Hunters Guilty of Using Hound Dogs
When thinking about British hunting, there is almost always a dog that comes to mind and the words Tally Ho!, but that has not been the case since 2004 when the country outlawed hunting mammals with dogs. But three members of a Sussex hunt were found guilty of using hounds on fox hunts in early [...]
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Officials Searching for Answers in Death of Mitchell Guist, Swamp People Star
“I fish, I hunt, you name it, just about anything in the swamp, I frog, I do it all,” that’s how Mitchell Guist has described his life. Guist died on Monday in the swamp, he would have turned 49 years old on Friday. We first reported that he suffered a seizure yesterday, but officials are [...]
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Coon Dog Rescued from Sinkhole in Indiana
On Friday night, MoMo and his owner were hunting raccoons near Paris when MoMo fell into a sinkhole. There are multiple openings to a set of caves in the area, and the dog found one falling about 20 feet down. His owner listed him as missing around 9 p.m., and it wasn’t until 1 a.m. [...]
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Swamp People Star Dies While Loading Boat
Swamp People is History Channel’s reality show that tracks the lives of alligator hunters in Louisiana, and it has lost one of its stars. Mitchell Guist was loading his boat on Monday morning in St. Martin Parish when he suffered a seizure and collapsed. Along with his brother, Glenn, the Guists entertained audiences with their [...]
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Russian Man Gets Stuck with an Arrow in his Neck. Survives.
Konstantine Myakush was looking forward to a nice day in the park with his daughters, it turned out to a be a pit of a pain in the neck. A stray arrow hit Myakush in the neck, just below his jaw. Luckily, the arrow didn’t hit any major arteries, and he was able to get [...]
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Female Bowhunter Bags World Record Red Stag in New Zealand
Melissa Bachman has been planning her New Zealand red stag hunt for two years. The planning paid off. Hunting with Ample Hunting outfitters near Gisborne in early March, Bachman and her crew made their way to stag country. Along the way hunting Merriam’s gobblers and shooting their 3-D course, they set up for the spot-and-stalk [...]
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Bow Review: 2012 Prime Shift
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