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Friday, July 19th, 2024

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Sportsmen Since 1967

Friday, July 19th, 2024

Breaking News for

Sportsmen Since 1967

With snow gone, it’s time to spring into deer scouting

Before green-up and while soil is moist, deer tracks, scrapes and trails like this are easily identified. (Photo by Eric Morken)

A few years ago, during spring, I was tramping through some bottomland with my yellow Lab, Daisy.
As we walked a piece of high ground surrounded by a bottomland bog, Daisy, as a good hunting dog should, was about two-thirds of a gunshot length in front of me and was nosing through the grass for a pheasant. Stepping gingerly through the matted-down grass, I felt something push into the back of my calf, creating a dull stabbing kind of pain.

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