Move to U.P. helps hunter learn how to really ‘hunt’ for deer | freep.com | Detroit Free Press
December 9, 2010
By ERIC SHARP
FREE PRESS OUTDOORS WRITER
Paraphrasing a pithy remark often attributed to motivational speaker Anthony Robbins, Upper Peninsula deer hunter Josh Stein said, "If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got."
Stein, 31, developed that philosophy after moving from the southern Michigan farmlands near Evart to the big woods around Houghton in the Keweenaw Peninsula and discovering that the most important part of deer hunting is "hunting."
"There are no deer trails here, not like around home," Stein said a couple of days after he shot a massive 15-pointer during the muzzleloader season.
"When I first started hunting (the western U.P.) in 2001, I scouted and scouted and scouted, but I didn’t find all the tracks and sign I expected. You didn’t see the heavily used trails people expect in southern Michigan.
"Deer here move mostly along creeks and river bottoms. I concentrated on those places and found where they liked to cross the streams. And bucks travel a lot more in the western U.P. than they do at home. I figured that out when I put out trail cameras at a couple of places that were 2 or 3 miles apart and started seeing the same deer on both cameras. Click Link Below For Full Story!
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Know federal regulations before bird hunting | The Clinton News
December 9, 2010
By Special to The Clinton News
As Mississippi’s 2010-11 waterfowl season kicks off, hunters, landowners and farmers are reminded to become familiar with existing federal baiting regulations before hunting migratory birds.
Along with setting season frameworks, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service maintains the authority to enforce baiting regulations.
The USFWS and MDWFP would like to remind hunters and farmers it is legal to take waterfowl over unharvested standing crops, flooded standing crops or croplands where seeds or grain have been scattered solely as the result of normal agriculture planting, harvesting, post-harvest manipulation, or normal soil stabilization practices.
According to USFWS, hunters and farmers should understand that shredding and plowing damaged croplands is not considered harvesting.
Those croplands where seed or grain is present may be considered a baited area until all the seed or grain is gone for 10 days. It is illegal to take migratory game birds by the aid of bait or over a baited area where a person knows, or reasonably should know, the area is baited.
Agricultural crops that are damaged in any way (for example, by disease) cannot be manipulated (mowed or disked) if you intend to hunt waterfowl. Manipulating these crops instead of allowing them to stand could be defined as manipulation of crops when waterfowl hunting. Click Link Below For Full Story!
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Special deer hunts in some state parks OK’d | The Courier-Journal
December 9, 2010
By Gary Garth • Special to The Courier-Journal
The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission has approved a request by the Department of Parks to allow selected parks to hold deer hunts outside the regular statewide firearm and muzzleloader seasons.
Any such hunts would have to be during archery season, which generally runs from the first Saturday in September through mid-January, but they would not necessarily be restricted to archers.
Tourism Secretary Marcheta Sparrow said such a move could generate cash during a time of year when traditional tourists tend to stay home.
“We think it’s a good opportunity to build a new constituency,” she said. “We’re working as hard as we can to develop any market we can.”
The regulation change would take effect next year but almost certainly not before the close of the 2010-11 archery season Jan. 17.
Deer hunts already are allowed at a few state parks. Click Link Below For Full Story!
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First waterfowl split fantastic for most hunters – Louisiana Sportsman
December 9, 2010
By Darren Digby
The 2010 duck season has been just what the doctor ordered, so far. Following lackluster early starts in recent years, this year bucked the trend with a parade of respectable cold fronts pushing into the Bayou State.
Though there have been a few warm days, hunters have enjoyed generally winter-like temperatures, with frost showing up on more than a few mornings; the most-recent front barreling through plunged temperatures for the closing morning of the split.
In a region where waterfowl hunting is so dependent upon the weather, it appears that the blessing of seasonable weather has resulted in respectable harvests throughout the state.
Hunter Shaffett with Whispering Oaks hunting lodge (225.301.7335) reported a great first split in the Vidalia area, with a surprising number of mallards showing up well ahead of schedule.
“We haven’t seen mallards like this in a while, especially at this point in the season,” Shaffett said.
He pointed out that water is critical to holding birds in his area right now in both the fields and the flooded hardwoods.
“The gadwall and the mallards showed up with the strong front right after Thanksgiving, and we’ve been hammering them ever since,” he added. Click Link Below For Full Story!
via First waterfowl split fantastic for most hunters – Louisiana Sportsman.
Hunters take fewer deer during opening week of gun season | The Columbus Dispatch
December 9, 2010
Strong start offset by deteriorating weather
By Josh Jarman
The Columbus Dispatch
Despite this year’s strong start to the state’s firearms deer season, hunters in Ohio bagged fewer deer in the opening week of gun hunting than they did last year.Hunters took 104,442 white-tailed deer during the week-long season, which ran Nov. 29 through Sunday, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Hunters killed 114,633 during the same time last year.The week started with prime hunting weather, which quickly deteriorated as the week progressed, state officials said.Several counties popular with local hunters, including Athens, Coshocton, Guernsey, Knox, Licking and Muskingum, all placed in the top 10 counties in the state for harvested deer, with Guernsey leading that pack at 3,455 deer killed. Other deer-kill totals were: Licking, 3,351; Coshocton, 3,320; Knox, 2,843; Muskingum, 2,447; and Athens, 2,395.Tuscarawas led the state with 5,513 deer taken last week.While this year’s opening week of gun hunting yielded fewer deer, it was only marginally safer with seven hunting-related injuries reported throughout the state, four of which were self-inflicted. None of the incidents were fatal. Click Link Below For Full Story!
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