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May 09, 2008
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Gopher Hunting: A Springtime Ritual
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Gopher Hunting: A Springtime Ritual

By Kevin Wilson
Bill Murray, eat your heart out! If you ask me, his producers would have been better off casting me as the cunning greens keeper of Caddyshack fame. Ok, maybe I’m overdoing it; truth is I probably terminated just as many as I let live on my last gopher hunt. But despite overall success on that fine afternoon in early May, one critter in particular had been taunting me. Consistently evading me, the only choice I had was to get into position and wait him out. As I crept across the pasture on all fours, I wasn’t going let him get the better of me. No sooner had I placed my shooting sticks when the cocky little guy popped his head out of the hole and made a break for it. Bad mistake.
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Shed Hunting 101
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Shed Hunting 101

By Kevin Wilson

Shed hunting is all the rage these days. Twenty years ago it was just beginning to catch on. Back then many hunters were curious but generally complacent about looking for dropped antlers. Sure there have always been those who understood the academics about where and when to pick up antlers, but nothing like today’s shed hunter. Those who commit heart and soul to searching for the ultimate antler literally live for this time of the year. Over the last decade it’s become a hardcore off-season pastime. Ask any serious deer hunter and most will tell you they now make it a part of their annual scouting routine.

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Attention Alberta Hunters, Anglers, and Trapper

The Alberta Hunting Heritage Act-Bill 201-has been introduced in the Alberta Legislature and passed second reading. Bill 201 is more than just symbolic. It creates a statutory right to hunt that can be defended in court. It will help secure the future of hunting in Alberta.

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