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Learning to uses the small boat for me was like a duck taking to water. Stable craft and stealthy in the respect that I could float up on waterfowl when hunting or nestle up to a sunken log when fishing. You need to be on more stable substrate when disembarking. Boarding is nothing more than lowering you, inside the hold...

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Bear meat can be delicious, especially if the bear is on the younger, tender side. Bear meat if chilled quickly, can make for some good cooking. Old bear, or poorly handled meat, is a horse of a different color. The best recipe I ever heard for cooking old boar bear steaks or roasts was this. Go to someone else’s home, slow roast the bear in their oven. Then throw the house away...

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Two of the most often used buzzwords around state wildlife agency offices across the nation are recruitment and retention of hunters. Recruitment is attracting new hunters to replace those who move on or drop out. Retention is the process of keeping those who are current hunters interested in buying licenses and staying in the field...

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I’ve always hesitated when it comes to making predictions, especially regarding hunting, fishing or trapping issues and seasons. However, I am not averse to letting others share their thoughts on what we might expect in 2007.

This week, we take a look ahead at what will likely be significant issues within the fisheries and wildlife divisions of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, with fisheries chief Greg Power and wildlife division chief, Randy Kreil...

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I'm a thankful and appreciative kind of guy. I've always tried to see Lake Sakakawea, for instance, as the glass that’s still half full. As we advance past Thanksgiving into the holiday season, there's reason to give thanks for hunters, anglers, trappers and all who enjoy spending more time outside than in...

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For many hunters November is a peak and valley, the best of times and the worst of times. As North Dakota’s popular deer gun hunting season opens and closes, thousands of hunters begin and end their hunting activities within the 16 ½ days the regular season takes place - Don't stop now!...

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For some, hunting might imply getting a shot and I've even heard at times people suggest that unless you bring something home, how do you prove you were hunting? I'll save the argument of what constitutes success for another day. My point is, our Sunday afternoon strolls are hunting, and we need to adhere to...

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Now the PLOT thickens. With a very wide brush stroke I covered a map page and basic compass functions. Here comes the big picture. Acquiring a topo map of a perspective area. For an initial choice scan some online topo maps at on-line map sources. There are many...

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Hunters will find about 899,000 acres highlighted in the 2006 North Dakota PLOTS guide. PLOTS is not just for pheasants, deer too are found in these walk in hunting access tracts...

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You have the needle on the compass floating north. In the mapping and compass trade there are three north’s. The first is TRUE north. Like the north pole where Santa lives. If you ran a direct line through the exact center of the earth on a north-south axis you would have true north...

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If you view a topo map like a SOLVED jig saw puzzle, and a treasure hunt, you like maps, like I like maps. Everything is right in front of you, but you got to go get it...

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Every year hundreds of hunters are seriously injured and scores killed nationally due to falls from tree stands. The majority of accidents occur because hunters do not take appropriate safety precautions when ascending or descending from an elevated hunting platform...

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Kids that learn to hunt and fish as youth, are more likely to make hunting and fishing a life long hobby...

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If your new hunting partner doesn’t enjoy mud, rain or getting up before the crack of dawn, odds are duck hunting is not a good choice...

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As outdoorsman we are now in the period of Fall’s great bounty.  Most of our Hunting seasons are now or soon to be open.  Pheasant Hunting of course being the biggest draw for us and the countless numbers of Foreigners that have discovered our wonderful natural resources...

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