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Thanks. Look at it this way, you could have been the guy in Colorado who called in what looked like an adult cougar and two kits to his turkey set-up! One of the kits looked to have closed to inside ten yards when it spooked and turned to follow the adult who had already turned away. I have...

Autopsy results confirm Mr. Crabtree's testimony on the events that transpired that resulted in his partner's murders at the hands of Mr. Volwell were correct The medical examiner could find no evidence of any brain abnormalities for Volwell either...

Have you ever been able to get wild turkey legs and thighs to convert into anything not too tough to eat? Did you airfry thos turkey nuggets? Steve cooked some for five hours sous vide and brought then to duck camp last fall along with a bunch of pheasant legs and thighs. I combined the turkey...

Well, when you consider that a subset of Michigan residents hatched a plot to kidnap our governor, spirit her across Lake Michigan in a black speed boat-not exactly a craft that would not stand-out wherever it came to dock- to a safe house in Wisconsin where she was to be tried and potentially...

They are referring to a road that parallels the shoreline of a lake. I used to live in a rental camp on Bass Lake, between Pentwater and Ludington back when I was squeezing fish for MSU. Great duck hunting lake with a road that seperated about 2/3s of the shoreline homes from their beach...

One more suggestion to consider: We train all our dogs to wait until we have crossed through a door threshold first prior them walking or lunging through it. This puts you in a better position to physically stop the dog via command or action with a leash. It also is a nice aid in dog control...

While B.1.1.7 variant transmission rate is quite high right now in Michigan and the main driver of rate of viral particles spread statewide, the age cohort of those primarily infected has shifted to the 18-29 YOs bracket as well as within those of the returning "snow birds" population who...

Wolf-dog depredation events map: DNR - Wolf - Dog Conflict (michigan.gov)

German shepherds are quite likely the brightest breed going overall, so you have ample experience working with a dog that learns quickly. I always try to keep in mind that I am amortizing the purchase price of a dog over roughly a dozen years of companionship as an owner; you usually get what...

Josh, the one thing that experience via training eight retrievers has taught me is that there is no formulaic approach to training a labrador retriever. Each dog has their own personality and inherent rate of comprehension and progression. Five of our labradors have been from English/Irish...

Handful of decoys for unpressured areas and migrating birds. I would just pick-up some GHG early season mallards and rig them Texas style for walk-in hunts. Old established beaver flowages are generally easily accessible, but newly established ponds have a lot of newly felled trees and canals...

Finished carving the rest of the Canada floater heads, sealed, and gesso coated white pine. I worked-up a different head pattern to add some more variety. For numeric symmetry probably should have carved two.

Leaf drop should be well underway by mid-October. Here in the Upper Peninsula, most of the wood ducks will be gone or on their way out. The other point I would make is that many of the water courses are so alder choked that you will be hard pressed to get close enough to jump birds, shoot...

When I was in Grad. school I was recruited to work on a stream survey crew MSU was sending to the Huron Mountains to estimate brook trout numbers in the Salmon Trout River within Huron Mountain Club property. Guy Fleischer and I had spent some time and effort building a second pulsed DC shocker...

Carl, one other genetics study I should have mentioned was done on Isle Royale stocks of coaster brook trout which found that these fish were largely direct decendants of two stream populations, indicating that there is little mixing of genetic material for these isolated stocks. From what I...

As a top-notch wood worker, do you have any Tung oil wood finishes you would recommend for outdoor use? By smell, I suspect that the Permalyn sealer is composed largely of tung oil, but the contents are "proprietary" accordig to the manufacturer.

When I was working for MSU on the mortality study at the Ludington Pumped Storage Facility we were running our open lake gillnets at sampling stations north and south of the plant. We caught a washed-out brook trout that was solely identifiable by the contrasting striping on its ventral fins...

Fished one of the Lake Michigan tributaries that has one of the largest spring runs of steelhead. Actually, fish come and go from the short stretch of river below the dam and water control complex routinely from the late part of the salmon run when they come in to gourge on eggs until early...

Do you use walnut husks or ground corn cob for bottom paint removal?

I purchased a pair of 1959 origin Browning/FN Superposed 12 gauges in IC/Mod and F/Mod with 28' barrels; one from Texas and the other from Washington. The initial pic is of the F/Mod choked gun. The series of pics were taken after I received the reblued reciever back from Art isaacson's shop...