Turkey Predator
February 24, 2010
By Scott Ellis
The wild turkey can offer the hunter one of the greatest challenges of any of the North American game species. Consistently bagging turkeys every season entails putting forth your best hunting efforts, embodying stealthy movement and putting yourself in a predatory mode. Luck has its place in every hunter’s endeavors but it is impossible to be consistently lucky. Placing your mind in a constant defensive posture will enable you to heighten your awareness and your woods skills. Letting your guard down for one minute can be the difference between filling your tag and heading home empty handed. Read more
2010 NWTF Wild Turkey Bourbon Grand Nationals Turkey Calling Championship
February 24, 2010
1. Mitchell Johnston
2. Jim Pollard
3. Shane Hendershot
4. Scott Ellis
5. Jesse Martin
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Woodhaven New Energy Three Pack
February 24, 2010
blue call-Doug Benefield
maroon call-Scott Ellis
brown call-Mitchell Johnston
Woodhaven Custom Calls-New Energy three pack. Consist of a Doug Benefield, Mitchell Johnston and my call, the Scott Ellis.
The Benefield is a ghost cut but the wing tips are left in tact. After running Doug’s call I was impressed with it’s tones. It delivers a medium amount of rasp with a clean front note of the yelp. It can perform a kee kee, as well some great clucks and purrs. It is overall easy to blow and will be a great fit for the caller that likes a less raspy yelper but still provides the versatility to produce the raspy turkey talk needed for cutting and cackling. Read more
Starting Out Young
February 15, 2010
by Mac Moad
Tanner Colten Moad, 5 years old, is one of the coolest kids I know. The youngest of 4 children of mine, Tanner never stops moving.
Before gun season in central eastern Oklahoma, the traditional bow season usually takes priority. I had taken the first week of bow season off from work in an attempt to tag out early at the request of my wife Lori. In her mind, if I was to tag out early, my deer season would then be “dear” season, with lots of additional chores getting done that get overlooked during each year’s deer season.
February 15, 2010
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Calling Elk Bow Close
January 20, 2010
Whether hunting public or privateland, the fundamentals of calling elk remain the same.
By Michael Waddell
We heard the bull bugle at first light and snuck into his core area. When I hit a lick on my bugle, the bull simply came unglued and stormed our position like a tank, crashing through brush and small lodgepole pines like they were atchsticks. Before we could react he was in our lap and we were pinned down, myself hiding behind a camera, too afraid to even touch the tripod for fear of my shaking hands would run the footage. All I could see of my partner edged against a stunted pine was the tip of his undrawn arrow shaking uncontrollably on the rest. Before a shot presented itself, the bull smelled a rat and disappeared as quickly as he arrived.
Picture This
January 15, 2010
Photo by Doris Barrilleaux
Hailey Marie Barrilleaux, 10, of Riverview, Florida accompanies her dad, Don, on many of his hunts in Green Swamp, Florida. Read more
Bow Hunting Grand Slam 2007
January 8, 2010
By Mac Moad
The first week of October was finally here. The first three days were spent in my favorite stand watching 3 raccoons in which I had named Larry, Curly, and Moe. The mother raccoon was slightly bigger than the two younger ones, and seemed curious to every movement surrounding them. The days here in eastern Oklahoma in October were still in the 80’s with mosquitoes buzzing everywhere. I was wondering if it were still to hot to hunt and questioned myself again over and over. Each day so far, I had hunted morning and evening with only a few does showing up. Read more
A Warning To Outdoor Users About Echinococcus, From Worms
December 14, 2009
This is a warning to outdoor users about a potentially deadly biological event that could result from one’s curiosity to poke at and kick through scat from wolves, coyotes and foxes. Of course not everyone knowingly does this but many hunters, trappers and simply the curious, want to know what these animals have been eating.
Picture This: Mac The Dog
December 5, 2009
After a little internet searching, reading, and checking up on this stuff I found its a pretty well established product in Canada and hails from Quebec where they have this funny habit of speaking a lot of French. Thus the name, Jig-A-Loo, and the companys claim it derives from a saying they have up north, Ive got it! 
