good luck, they are out there but from what i understand the does are hiding.

i got nice 5 and 7 points, both missing the left brow tine, the bigger one had scars on his neck liek a pro knife fights and a bloody hole thru his ear.

"I must've shot the brow tine off that 5-point!"

wasnt there a spread along the big black river (in madison county) that brought in some larger northern deer some time back (maybe decades) and fenced off their land with a nice expensive HIGH fence to keep them in, and then, as Mother Nature does, over time trees came down and busted the fence here...

I heard about this guy from a friend who's Uncle is a Judge in Arkansas. A Mr. Enos was apprehended by the authorities recently. He lives in the flatlands along a state hiway and as some Wildlife people drove past they noticed a pile of feathers blowing thru the man's yard, so they stopped and check...

my new waders came from Mack's Prairie Wing and i got the actual Macks brand and they have been very good to me, no leaks, warm and heavy duty. last year i used some Lacrosse waders adn they started leaking just below the navel, but we did hunt alot of ice and i recall breaking ice doing a high knee...

ive counted up to 39 canvasbacks recently on a lake near the rez and the trace. . . only one cormarant. last winter we had HUNDREDS of cormerants! and ice.

noting the time frame, it must be the same eagle! :p

Ooooooooo, those kind of jugs!

i've seen bald eagles on lake washington and eagle lake but two days ago i saw my first bald eagle (fully mature) flying over the lake i live on, across the Natchez Trace from the Ross Barnett and the Overlook on teh edge of Madison COunty. He was flying above treetop level headed south-ish and was ...

"saw an eagle swoop dong on a flock of Mallards "

i'm no man to knock typos but that one was humorous... unless that IS some crazy method an eagle uses to knock ducks down!

we shot some woodies and gadwalls this morning, watched them crash through the ice, or try to and skip to a stop, but one woodie flopped down into a cane brake. Once we were rounding up our kill, one of us went to the thickets to find him. I saw a big bird fly out and light on a tree, it wasnt a duc...

... if you are extremely hungry

... if you park your high dollar 4x4 next to the blind AND ITS RED!

... if you shoot with a .22

... if your an alligator

dick's is like going to some store out in the sticks when it comes to having what you want or need. . . .with a store the size of dicks, you'd think they'd have a better array of stuff . . . academy sports rates much higher for me. . . (and there's alway Bass Pro which is where i take my little kids...

most register clerks proly dont give a coot about their job, wish the were somewhere else, etcetera. . . i wouldnt expect too much from them when they arent nice, but when they are... that is a good thing.

you might be a topwater if you play your duck call like a classic rock song or try to recreate the sound of your alarm clock WHILE ON THE HUNT! i have a "batty" friend with an uncontrolled sense of humor who will sit there and make $#!+ up on his duckcall... in fact he would hardly shoot a...

most of my successful deer hunts included a grunt call, a rattle bag and a doe bleat (i usually make my own bleat like a calf call), and of course some cover scent or scent away... seems like everyone would take a knife, warm clothes, and binos (or scope)... might as well tell the guy to take a gun ...