Fitness

After twelve years of tracking and hunting Burmese pythons in South Florida, it takes a lot to piss off Ian Bartoszek. A wildlife biologist and the science coordinator for the Conservancy of Southwest FloridaBartoszek would say the same about Ian Easterling, his right-hand man and fellow biologist on the project. “So when Ian started screaming with excitement, I knew something …

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Two southwestern Iowa farm boys have been keeping an eye on a very special buck on family land for the past three years. The more they watched the deer on the cameras, the more obsessed they became with the buck, which they nicknamed “Big P” (short for Big Pimpin’). One of the obsessed young men, 20-year-old Dustin Shuler, says that …

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At this point in deer season, all serious whitetail hunters must answer two important questions: When will that target buck move? And where will he go? To answer these questions we can use recent and historical camera data, plus traditional timber craft skills and good old hunter intuition. But it also helps to gain insight into the bigger picture. And …

It was the first time Jamie Coldiron had attempted to acquire a legendary Kentucky buck that many of his friends and hunting buddies had seen far and wide for more than six years. The buck had such a wide and unusual rack that they called it ‘D9’, similar in appearance to the front of a Caterpillar D9 bulldozer. Using information …

Lucas Norby was elk hunting in Colorado in late September when he received a text from his wife, Paige. Her message was to let him know that a buck he had been watching for three years was now moving consistently in the daylight. But if he wanted to hunt it, he’d have to get home to Wisconsin quickly, Paige insisted. …

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Miranda Farson and her husband Grant were shooting archery from the same tree on October 4. The two sat in separate lock-on stands 20 feet high in the big maple tree on a piece of private land in Morrow County, Ohio. Miranda and Grant looked in different directions, waiting for one of the two target bombs they had seen on …

The evening of October 12 marked the third time this season that Taylor Hahnert had hunted from the same tree stand on a private 30-acre parcel in Knox County, Ohio. Hahnert was looking for a huge buck that he had often seen on the farm. It was one he had passed on several times over the years, and a pair …