Pheasant Hunting: The Hand Grenade Hunt
For the old time, bird hunter, preserve hunting always has had a faint taint to it, but that’s a bum rap.
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Hunting Turkeys: Cursed By Bad Weather Again!
In 2012, on opening day of the Missouri spring gobbler season I experienced one of the toughest weather days of turkey hunting I had ever seen. It had rained for three-straight days and the winds were gusting more than 40 miles per hour. And it wasn’t much better in 2013!
READ MORE ›Easy Ways To Catch Crappies
Missouri anglers cherish crappies perhaps beyond all others. Most of that reverence is not because the crappie puts up a grueling fight, but because, reduced to skillet, it is as good as fish get!
READ MORE ›Missouri’s Squaw Creek Refuge: A Home For Hard-Core Hunters
Labrador retrievers sprawl on the floor, football game natters on the television in the background. Hunters sprawl, also tired. Only difference between them and the dogs is that the hunters didn’t spend the day swimming in icy water or lying uncomfortably on the
splintery deck boards of a duck blind. It was in Northwest Missouri, near 7,000-acre Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge. Where else can you find 400,000 light geese cheek to beak … .
A Fishing Guy’s Best Friend
Minnesota has its 10,000 lakes; Missouri has 100,000
farm ponds, give or take a few thousand. And if diamonds are a girl’s best
friend, a farm pond is a guy’s if he’s a fisherman. I am.
Show-me Deer Hunters Show You
It’s called the Show-Me State, a pugnacious moniker that gets Missourians into quite a few fights (especially if someone remembers that Missourians also used to be called "pukes"). But when it comes to trophy deer hunting, Show-Me hunters have done just that — showed the world!
READ MORE ›Big Bucks And Big Fences
Judy A. from Missouri
writes to ask about deer farms. “This past year I’ve read a lot of negative
press about deer farms. I don’t hunt on deer farms, but what’s the harm? If a
private business owner wants to raise big-antlered deer, and if a hunter wants
to pay big money to kill such deer, how does that negatively impact the rest of
us who hunt deer in the wild?”
Paddling Missouri: Down A Lazy River In The Winter Sun
On any given summer Saturday, Akers Ferry put-in on Missouri’s
Current River
looks like Times Square on New Year’s Eve,
waiting for the ball to drop. Wall-to-wall canoes, loaded with teenagers, many
of them also loaded. But change the scene to January 1 and you’ll find the nation’s First Scenic
Riverway deserted possibly blanketed with snow.
Rattling: The Louder The Better?
Ed H. from Missouri
writes to ask about rattling. “Rattling seems to be a good tool for increasing
a buck hunter’s success. I’ve seen hunters on television use two different
strategies to rattle. Some just tickle the tines together rather lightly to
imitate sparring, while others bang the antlers together in a very loud fashion
to imitate fighting. Does one strategy work better than the other, or
should a rattling sequence involve using both?”