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“WHEN SOME OF MY FRIENDS HAVE ASKED ME ANXIOUSLY ABOUT THEIR BOYS, WHETHER THEY SHOULD LET THEM HUNT, I HAVE ANSWERED YES — REMEMBERING THAT IT WAS ONE OF THE BEST PARTS OF MY EDUCATION. MAKE THEM HUNTERS.”Henry David Thoreau | Walden. Aug. 9. 1854 It starts as a fascination. A new-age young man living in a world filled with pavement, digital screens and virtual, instant satisfaction discovers the age-old traditions of archery and hunting. The idea of hunting for free-range protein is more than appealing. His buddies show him the basics at the local archery range, and he soon learns this won’t be an easy pastime. Well, not as easy as those guys on TV make it look. Stacking arrows into a 10-inch circle at 20 yards is fun…
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AFTER THOROUGHLY READING this piece, I would have to agree that “carrying capacity” is indeed a “slippery shibboleth,” and that “readers should expect authors to define terms.” Unless I missed it, nowhere in this article does the author explain what the K in KCC stands for. He makes reference to a “maximum biological carrying capacity,” but for the life of me I can’t find a K in either “maximum” nor “biological.” Ironically, KCC first appears under a “Some Science” subheading, leaving the reader to wonder what scientific information is potentially being withheld. —Charles Slovensky, via email Editor’s note: The K is in the formula for calculating the carrying capacity curve. Most laymen do not use the term, but most deer biologists do. More specifically, the formula is as follows: K = R…
Eighty-nine-year-old Delor Wellman is one of Michigan’s most successful deer hunters. While hunting in the UP’s Delta County over the years, he shot bucks 70 years in a row. Some years he shot two bucks. He’s saved the antlers from all of the bucks he’s shot since 1948. Someone with that much experience is bound to have valuable information to share, so I took advantage of the opportunity to interview the veteran whitetail slayer when I learned about Delor’s envious record from his son Dave. Dave Wellman is also into whitetail antlers, especially big ones. He’s a long-time measurer for state big game record keeper Commemorative Bucks of Michigan and is also a scorer for a well known national big game record keeping organization: the Boone & Crockett Club. “I…
Illinois deer hunters will have more options starting in the 2023 season when single-shot rifles will be allowed with specific caliber regulations. The changes go into effect Jan. 1, 2023, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Legal specifics for the single-shot rifle and caliber: — a bottleneck centerfire cartridge of .30 caliber or larger with a case length not exceeding one and two-fifths inches, OR — a straight-walled centerfire cartridge of .30 caliber or larger. — Both must be available as a factory load with the published ballistic tables of the manufacturer showing a capability of at least 500-foot pounds of energy at the muzzle. — Full-metal jacket bullets may not be used to harvest deer. These caliber specifications are the same for handgun deer hunting in previous…
When asked the age-old conversational question, “What month of the year is your favorite?” Or perhaps its more thought-provoking corollary, “What month of the year would you choose if you only had one to live?” My answer is the same. Give me November. Now I admit, I would be hard-pressed not to choose May with its dewy mornings, new-green pastures and hayfields, songbird life, woodland wildflowers, unfurling oak leaves and long days … with wild turkeys to hunt in the glory of it all and trout to fish in the cool, singing creeks. But May doesn’t quite match up to November. For me, three things make that so. One. It must be some combination of the genes in me emanating from the north seas on one side and Slavic steppes…
