Calling The Wild Turkey……..When And How Often??

By: Scott Ellis

2005,2006,2007 Florida State Turkey Calling Champion

2004, 2007 Florida State Gobbling Champion

Quaker Boy Game Calls Pro Staff

One of the most asked questions about hunting the wild turkey is “when do I call and how often?” I feel that there is an art to calling turkeys. It’s all based on feeling him out and knowing what he wants to hear. How do you know this? Well I think it will come to you the more you work gobblers in different scenarios. Right off the roost, mid morning with hens, with out hens, public land bird, private land bird. In my opinion, whether calling a hot to trot two year old or a four year old hard hunted public bird, it’s a matter of getting his attention and keeping his interest just enough to get him to investigate. If you over call him, he will stand his ground and wait for this hot hen to meet him for their rendezvous. If you under call him, he will move off to the next hot item. Read more

Huckabee The Target Of Hunting And Religious Ridicule

It’s to be expected when you are running for president of these here United States. But multiply that substantially when you just come off winning the Iowa caucus heading into New Hampshire as the front runner. Let’s face it, when your a nobody, nobody cares. Lead the pack and you’re a target.

Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas has too very large targets on his back, at least so far, and everyone is taking aim. One target has a Bible in the middle of it. Huckabee is a Baptist minister and well, we know how this religion thing sits with some people. The other target has a hunting rifle in it. Mr. Huckabee likes to hunt. Read more

Timberdoodle Time

by Keith “Catfish” Sutton

Keith Sutton
15601 Mountain Dr.
Alexander, AR 72002
501-847-9643
catfishdude@sbcglobal.net

Every autumn, when the weather man announces the first cold front blowing down from the North, we get timberdoodles on our minds.

Last year it happened in mid-November. The phone rang at 6:30p.m.

“Did you hear the weather report?” Jim asked, a twinge of excitement edging his voice. “There’s a blue norther coming down. The timberdoodles are probably flocking into Lost Pond already. I’ll pick you up at 5 tomorrow morning. You bring sandwiches, and I’ll bring the coffee. Patterson’s going with us.” Read more

Rattlin’ The Alders

By A. Sayward Lamb
A. Sayward Lamb is an outdoor writer and published author. He writes for U.S. Hunting Today and Maine Fishing Today.

Rattlin’ The Alders

This story happened during the last week of November, in 1992. It was a beautiful day, with a foot of snow to hunt on, and my son, Jim; son-in-law, Blane Morse; and myself, decided we would go down to Dead Man’s Curve, in West Paris, to see if we could find any deer. We were especially interested in finding the where-a-bouts of a big buck, who had been frequenting the area for the past ten days. His tracks were huge, so we assumed it was an older buck, in full rut, seeking out the several does that lived in that lowland area. Read more

The Basics of Black Bear Hunting

by Keith Sutton

Keith Sutton
15601 Mountain Dr.
Alexander, AR 72002
501-847-9643
catfishdude@sbcglobal.net
American black bears live only in North America. These familiar bruins are primarily woodland animals, occupying forests as far north as forests grow in Alaska and Canada and as far south as Florida and northern Mexico.

When Europeans began settling the New World, they converted many forests to farms, and black bears were eliminated from large portions of their original range. Populations experienced a resurgence during the latter half of the twentieth century, however, as people abandoned marginal farmland and let it revert to forest. Read more