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May 13, 2008
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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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Survival: The Right Stuff - Feb 15, 2008
By Mark Hamilton

Mountain climbers don’t go out looking to die. They control risk—and in a sport of risk, that’s a sign of advanced skills. So too in hunting: anyone can be cold, wet, lost or dead. The smart woodsman is at home wherever he is, and prepared for the unpredicted.


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Wilderness & Remote First Aid: - Nov 29, 2007
By Mark Hamilton and Red Cross Instructor Andrew Foran

Mark: Arriving at the Search and Rescue Base in Windsor Junction, Nova Scotia for a four-day Wilderness and Remote First Aid (WRFA) course, my plan was to camp. Freezing rain and plummeting temperatures (-25º C in the daytime) meant a constant vigil against cold feet and wet gear: I knew I needed to be comfortable enough to concentrate properly.

Preparation of your gear makes a difference, but it doesn’t tell you what to expect or how you will react. This is a course about reality, and the real possibility of you being in the middle of events that everybody dreads. So what will you do?

At the start of these few intense days of training, you might be surprised to find yourself mentally unprepared, yet you go on and you get it done as well as you can. You juggle the challenges of empathetic care and the unpredictability of personalities under stress, and you discard some old assumptions about your wilderness knowledge. You replace those assumptions with real confidence that you can make a difference if the situation allows.

You are taught, tried, and given the mental tools for the job, and you will succeed, because the lesson here is to try.

But you are different when you go home.


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The Hunting Season is Here - Sep 21, 2007
By Drew Myers

There is a difference between the official date of the opening of the season, and the unofficial event each of us has that really signals the beginning of another fall in the field. The first is simply a legal date on the calendar- the second is simply magic. For some it could be the sound of a rutting bull elk screaming his rule across a mountain canyon, or the wild flush of a ruffed grouse. For me, the magic begins when dawn rises over a duck marsh on my first duck hunt of the year. It’s the sound of wings, and smell of beaver ponds and the taste of my calls as they hit my lips for the first time in months. These are the things, regardless of the date on the calendar, that start my fall hunting.

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