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Take Advantage of Bucks the First Weeks of the Season

18th July 2021 Daniel K. Sweat Hunting

Take Advantage of Bucks the First Weeks of the Season

Confessions of a First-Time Mountain Hunter

16th June 2021 Daniel K. Sweat Hunting

I thought I’d trained and prepared enough for this hunt. I was very wrong. Like many outdoorsmen, I’ve long entertained aspirations of hunting big game—elk, bear, sheep—in the mountainous backcountry. I envisioned loading up my pack with a week’s worth of supplies, grabbing my rifle, and setting out into the depths of the wilds with few comforts or safeguards, only to

First Look: New Mission Sub-1 Crossbow

25th May 2021 Daniel K. Sweat Hunting

First Look: New Mission Sub-1 Crossbow

This Hunter Did a DIY Public Land .410 Turkey Slam in the First 2 Weeks of Turkey Season

14th May 2021 Daniel K. Sweat Hunting

Seth Gebo wasn’t planning to pull off one of the hardest things in turkey hunting. He connected with an Osceola in Florida on a buddy hunt a few days into the season. Then the lightbulb went off. With some last-minute plane tickets and a few hundred bucks in rental cars, he could pull off a DIY public-land season for the

First Look: CAMX 330 and Its Inherent Accuracy

21st April 2021 Daniel K. Sweat Hunting

First Look: CAMX 330 and Its Inherent Accuracy

A Vegan’s First Deer Kill

16th December 2020 Daniel K. Sweat Hunting

This is about G. G is a vegan. Her kids and my kids became friends at Montessori. On our first few play dates, we talked a lot about meat, about hunting, about her experience training as a veterinarian in factory farms. We talked about killing, and sadness, and nutrition, and exercise, and parenting, and guns. We talked about gardening. The

Get Bit: My First Time Hillbilly Hand-Fishing for Alabama Lake Monsters

30th November 2020 Daniel K. Sweat Hunting

noodling [ noo.dling ] (verb) A slightly deranged person holds their breath, submerges themselves under water, shoves their entire arm into a muddy hole, and then uses their hand as bait in order to lure a giant catfish into biting them so they can yank it to the surface. Fishing with your bare hands. Only a psychotic person would go

Ob. The first pancake is lumpy.

26th July 2019 Daniel K. Sweat News

This season I haven’t yet caught from a boat on the Ob, but it’s time. We decide with Andrey to start the sutra before. 07/11/19. Time to dinner, so not far. Morning, Ob, few people. Lepot The water is very warm, turbid. We hollow a jig of perski and snags, a relief and watering. In general, wherever possible. And only

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