Getting to share my outdoor activities with family and friends is also extremely gratifying. This most recent Missouri
deer season was one of those very special times. Some friends teamed-up again to hunt a new property in Northeast Missouri — it was a super hunt!
We have all heard the term “character” used in relationship to whitetail buck antlers that exhibit unusual or unique shapes and/or sizes. These characteristics make a buck more desirable to most hunters. One such unusual buck fell to the arrow of Jason Waters not long ago.
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The snow and brutally cold temperatures of winter can sometimes make doing
anything outdoors uncomfortable. One of
the best things that January and February brings to hunters is hungry coyotes! Winter is a good time to call-in and shoot these wild
canines.
Jim Barnett took his son Andrew to his favorite hunting spot. This is a place where Jim and his bowhunting
companions had harvested several deer in previous seasons. Only 30 minutes into their hunt Andrew looked up at him and said, "Dad, there’s deer on the trail!"
The old adage that “bigger is better” does not hold true for all things, all
the time. Quite often you can find circumstances where there really is too much
of a good thing. I would like to apply these thoughts to my experience in the
world of largemouth bass fishing.
The old adage that “bigger is better” does not hold true for all things, all
the time. Quite often you can find circumstances where there really is too much
of a good thing. I would like to apply these thoughts to my experience in the
world of largemouth bass fishing.
In all my years of turkey hunting, in over a dozen states, with a hundred different hunting companions, I have yet to be part of a double kill. But for Roger Lewis and Mike Hamski, it is becoming routine, instead of an exception to the rule. Here’s how the two pulled it off this time.
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My current cameraman is Jason Waters, a 28-year-old
Missourian. Waters is a hunter, but has never killed a turkey. "Give me the camera," I said to him. "Why? What did I do
wrong?" he asked. As I handed him the gun I said, "Today you kill
your first turkey. I will film you."
I usually have great confidence in a guide’s knowledge and abilities, but this guy was nuts! We were on one of the hottest springtime crappie lakes in America, Lake of the Ozarks, in April and this fellow was putting a red and white plastic bobber on my jigging line. I was confused, to say the least.
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