Quality deer management has taken it's toll, and whitetail hunters are reaping its benefits.According to the Boone & Crockett Club, the number of bucks qualifying for their books increased 400 percent over the course of 30 years. The conservation group is perhaps the most respected record-keeping organization of all big game animals, and for your [...]
Arkansas Hunting
Aaron Tippin, Crossin Dixon to Headline Entertainment at EPIC Outdoor Game Fair
The Entertainment Stage at the EPIC Outdoor Game Fair will feature well-known country music stars Aaron Tippin and Crossin Dixon. The two acts will anchor the beginning and end of the three-day festival. In addition, the entertainment at the Main Stage will feature concerts by the Mike Brookshire Band, the Moonshine Mafia as well as other local bands. All performances are included with the price [...]
Louisiana Hunters Bagged Record Amount of Ducks
Ducks like Louisiana. The US Fish and Wildlife Service reports that more than 2.7 million ducks were killed last year, which is more that any other state last year. The Pelican State beat runner up Arkansas who harvested only 1.4 million ducks. Louisiana averaged about 30.6 ducks per hunter for the season. This upcoming duck [...]
Democrats Shoot Better Than Republicans at the Congressional Shootout
I have a funny feeling that if I took a quick poll that most people would assume that Republicans would be better shooters than Democrats, but that's not the case. Every year the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation hosts the Congressional Shootout, bringing members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to the shooting range. Believe [...]
The Secret Plan that Brought Bears Back to Arkansas
Like many wild game species, the black bear was over-hunted and nearly eradicated in the early 1900s in Arkansas.But in the 1950s, state officials began trucking black bears in from Minnesota to bring the estimated population of 25 bears in the state up to the 4,000 that are currently roaming the woods. Talk about a [...]
Outdoor Life’s Top Towns for Hunters and Anglers
This list should just be called: Where Hunters and Anglers Should Retire To: Go West Old Man. Our friends at Outdoor Life pulled together a lot of factors to rank the 200 best towns for outdoorsmen and women. They get their rankings by looking at everything from huntable and fishable species, population density, gun friendliness, [...]
Opening weekend dove hunt
Opening weekend of the 2010 dove season in Arkansas. Typical hot weather and dry fields and my daughters lab's first hunt. (Deacon trains a ton, but dove is the bird I hunt. I lock on whitetail after Oct 1, so he missses chasing down duck and geese.) With so much pup still left in him, [...]
Halloween Buck
October 31, 2010 Very good moon phase and deer movement in the daylight soaring made this a day not to be missed. At camp I begged a good buddy to take a stand I hung in July that overlooks an oak flat beside a creek. He declined, so I decided to hunt it myself.Walking in, [...]
Elizabeth’s First Whitetail
2007 Youth Deer Hunt. In a ground blind with her father (me) and her younger sister, Emme. Evening hunt, as the morning hunt only produced sighting of deer well out of her range. It was pretty warm, so very little movement until the last hour of daylight. Both girls do well in the stand being [...]
Family Hunting Trip
Management hunt at a buddy's camp. Saw lots of nice bucks and Emme popped a doe.
