Archive for October 8, 2007

Grandpa shares passion for hunting


Outdoor Notebook

Louisville Courier-Journal - According to Department of Fish and Wildlife officials, a portion of the 15,000-acre Graham Wildlife Management Area in Clay, Bell and Leslie counties is open to public hunting, including about 4,000 acres open to at-large elk hunting. Part of the .


public elk hunting

My best friends’ prized gun shop in Bentez has a Dakota Model 76 Traveler for $199. One issue is if you’re a hunter, the ring or the lanyard on the Dakota Model 76 Traveler can snag on a branch or even your own clothing and possibly pop your receiver cover off. For elk hunting I like higher power scopes as in 4×12 - 4.5×14 on the Dakota Model 76 Traveler. My friends and I like the 7.62 mm best for buck hunting.

Controversial buffalo hunt starts in Wyoming - Reuters

elk hunts wyoming

I got my Ruger 308 Win. online at Dick’s Sporting Goods. I bought the rifle at the local gunshop in Talkeetna on the installment plan for $800. There is a new edition of my new H&R Vanguard Sporter SS with the Bastogne walnut chambered in 308 Win. and .30 Carbine. My desired caliber is a tossup between the .30 Carbine and 308 Win.

I like the the 308 Win. best for buck hunting. The best sporting goods store in Wisconsin is the Wal Mart in Talkeetna.


Controversial buffalo hunt starts in Wyoming - Reuters

Controversial buffalo hunt starts in Wyoming
Reuters - Sep 15, 2007
. hunters on Saturday begin tracking and killing buffalo on the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where federal wildlife managers plan to cut .

Wyoming Predicts Successful Hunting Season - Buckmasters Online

Wyoming Predicts Successful Hunting Season
Buckmasters Online - Sep 10, 2007
So, overall hunters are looking at a pretty favorable 2007 hunting forecast - and the prospects could turn sharply better, particularly for elk, .

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A hunting year for the memory banks - Wahpeton Daily News

bear whitetail hunter

My brother’s most popular wapiti rifle (when hunting in Hawaii) is a 270 Winchester magnum. Our pet rifle is the 270 H&R magnum I picked up online at the NRA store.

My best friend Van says his dearest caliber for groundhogs out to 300-400 yards is anything in a 270 H&R magnum. My friends and I like the 7 Mossberg Mag best for rabbit hunting.

I got my Ruger 270 H&R magnum last fall at Target in Willshire. I really like the overall looks of the Ruger Sporter with a checkered black walnut stock. My second most popular caliber is 7 Browning Mag and 270 Ruger magnum. My number one hunt was last fall just outside of Willshire.


Huntington News Network Book Critic - HNN Huntingtonnews.net

Huntington News Network Book Critic
HNN Huntingtonnews.net, USA - 35 minutes ago
Bambi told the story of a male roe deer (Midwesterner Disney changed it to a whitetail) growing to adulthood in a European forest. .

The Canadas won this one - Hudson Star Observer

The Canadas won this one
Hudson Star Observer, WI - Sep 19, 2007
After hiking into familiar northern Wisconsin whitetail country with a portable treestand on my back, I stood high in a birch on the edge of a marsh .

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Putting the ‘wild’ back in wildlife

Times-Argus - It might be a graceful whitetail doe that paused in your wife’s gorgeous wild flower garden and devoured her hosta plants . letter to the Herald, bemoaned the fact that a black bear that had visited her front lawn may have been shot by a bear hunter. .


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