Category: Hunting
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Choosing the Best Spotting Scope
Spotting scopes are small, portable magnification devices used for hunting, target shooting, viewing wildlife, surveillance activities and just about anything more magnifying power than a pair of binoculars can provide is required. Spotting scopes are also used by wildlife photographers and others who capture digital images from long distances. Called digiscoping, a camera is…
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Guide to Bowhunting Deer
Man has used bows and arrows to hunt for food since the Stone Age. Archaeologists estimate that primitive man began hunting game with crude bows and wooden shafted arrows tipped with sharpened stone points as early 10,000 BC. The shortcomings of their equipment were offset by their remarkable ability to stalk quarry within close range…
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How to Field Dress a Deer
What Is Field Dressing? If you are lucky enough to drop a deer on your next hunting trip, you’re going to have to know how to field dress it. Field dressing is the process of cutting open any hunted game and removing all the internal organs. This process is not only a rite of passage…
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Hunter’s Guide to Buying Decoys
Hunting decoys are life-size imitations of wildlife that have been used by hunter-gatherers for centuries to attract and take game, varmints or predatory animals. Today’s man-made decoys realistically imitate a wide array of wildlife species, including waterfowl, deer, wild turkey, varmints and more.