Fury Tactical Armada NATO Fighter Razor Edge Fixed Blade Knife

Fury Tactical Armada NATO Fighter Razor Edge Fixed Blade Knife

The Fury Armada is based on an original design used by NATO forces in conflicts around Europe. First built in Spain and now from Joy Enterprises this is a true military grade knife. Hard sheath is ambidextrous in military Olive Drab with match Olive Drab Kraton handle and lanyard. Back blade features a Cross Cut Saw.

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Adirondack Road Trip: The Whitetail Empire

Looking for solitude, adventure, and a mature public-land buck? Then New York’s vast Adirondack Park is the place to go. 

Days Required: Three to four. Necessary Paperwork: Big-game license ($140 for nonresidents; www.dec.ny.gov); muzzleloader license ($140); bear tag ($25); free backcountry permits are required if you stay in one place for more than three days. Must-Have Gear: Backcountry bucks can be very receptive to calling. Bring grunt, rattling, and snort calls. Before You Go: Order a guidebook and map of the area you intend to hunt (adk.org), then make a wet run with your camping gear. Repair or replace anything that fails, and ditch equipment you don’t use. Last-Resort Guide: Adirondack Foothills Guide Service.


Photos by Tom Fowlks

The park features more than a dozen wilderness areas that cover about 1 million acres—nearly 180,000 of which are a butt-kicking 3 miles (or more) from the nearest road as the raven flies. Even in a region known for its backwoods deer hunters, the Adirondack’s plentiful way-back country offers an excellent opportunity to go one-on-one with whitetails that often die of old age.


Map by RADIO

To hunt these deer, however, you have to bring camp to them. That means backpacking or paddling your gear into remote and often rugged terrain for a multiday stay. An extensive network of hiking trails helps, but the hunting is still a challenge. Windfalls, ledges, beaver flows, and gorges make traveling off-trail tough, and long, snowy winters keep deer densities low. At times it can seem like you’re searching for a needle in a primeval haystack of towering white pines, hemlocks, and ancient birches. Yet the deer are there, and the rewards can be great.

The last several years, I’ve teamed up with a veteran hiker turned hardcore hunter for backpack hunts in the park. I can count the number of deer I saw on our best trip on one hand, but I’ve never seen another hunter and a remarkable percentage of the deer I do see are rack bucks. Only once have we been skunked.

We scour maps for areas that have lots of terrain features in the form of summits and ridges, and which are too far in to be frequented by day hunters. Mature Adirondack bucks like to travel and bed high, and they often make their scrapes and rub lines on knobs and other high spots. Hiking ridgelines makes finding pockets of buck activity easier, and points and saddles create natural funnels if you prefer sitting over still-hunting or tracking.

Good areas to prospect include all of the park’s larger wilderness areas. Among these are the West Canada Lake, Silver Lake, and Siamese Ponds wildernesses in the southern Adirondacks, each of which covers more than 100,000 acres. Canoe routes in the Five Ponds Wilderness in the western Adirondacks let you paddle your way in. The 193,000-acre High Peaks Wilderness in the eastern Adirondacks offers the most way-back country and the greatest challenge in terms of rugged terrain and low deer densities. It also produced my best Adirondack buck.

When to go is a matter of preference. I like the first week of November. Overnight lows are still bearable; whitetails can be found feeding on beechnuts and acorns (on south-facing slopes, primarily in the southern Adirondacks); and most important, the pre-rut has bucks cruising for does.

Camping is permitted at designated sites on water bodies and anywhere that’s at least 150 feet from a pond or stream. The region’s many lean-tos can eliminate the need for packing in a tent, but we avoid them because they’re magnets for gnawing critters, including bears.

Come prepared to get your game out. The drags can be very long, and although sleds and carts can help you do the job, quartering and packing your whitetail out is sometimes the only practical solution.

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Source: http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/deer-hunting/finding-deer-hunt/2013/10/whitetail-empire

Yukon Gear Men’s Insulated Pants

Yukon Gear Men's Insulated Pants

Yukon Gear insulated hunting pants in Mossy Oak Infinity camo pattern are waterproof and breathable. They feature 2 side pockets, 1 front pocket and 1 rear pocket. Constructed of 240 gram 100% polyester tricot with 8000/800 WPB PU lamination. Tabs at the bottom for snug fit to ankle.

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Russell Outdoors Men’s Explorer Long Sleeve T-Shirt

Russell Outdoors Men's Explorer Long Sleeve T-Shirt

The Explorer Long Sleeve T-Shirt is a lightweight 100% cotton tee equipped with a chest pocket. It’s perfect for those days out in the field or staying close to home.

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Adirondack Road Trip: The Whitetail Empire

Looking for solitude, adventure, and a mature public-land buck? Then New York’s vast Adirondack Park is the place to go. 

Days Required: Three to four. Necessary Paperwork: Big-game license ($140 for nonresidents; www.dec.ny.gov); muzzleloader license ($140); bear tag ($25); free backcountry permits are required if you stay in one place for more than three days. Must-Have Gear: Backcountry bucks can be very receptive to calling. Bring grunt, rattling, and snort calls. Before You Go: Order a guidebook and map of the area you intend to hunt (adk.org), then make a wet run with your camping gear. Repair or replace anything that fails, and ditch equipment you don’t use. Last-Resort Guide: Adirondack Foothills Guide Service.


Photos by Tom Fowlks

The park features more than a dozen wilderness areas that cover about 1 million acres—nearly 180,000 of which are a butt-kicking 3 miles (or more) from the nearest road as the raven flies. Even in a region known for its backwoods deer hunters, the Adirondack’s plentiful way-back country offers an excellent opportunity to go one-on-one with whitetails that often die of old age.


Map by RADIO

To hunt these deer, however, you have to bring camp to them. That means backpacking or paddling your gear into remote and often rugged terrain for a multiday stay. An extensive network of hiking trails helps, but the hunting is still a challenge. Windfalls, ledges, beaver flows, and gorges make traveling off-trail tough, and long, snowy winters keep deer densities low. At times it can seem like you’re searching for a needle in a primeval haystack of towering white pines, hemlocks, and ancient birches. Yet the deer are there, and the rewards can be great.

The last several years, I’ve teamed up with a veteran hiker turned hardcore hunter for backpack hunts in the park. I can count the number of deer I saw on our best trip on one hand, but I’ve never seen another hunter and a remarkable percentage of the deer I do see are rack bucks. Only once have we been skunked.

We scour maps for areas that have lots of terrain features in the form of summits and ridges, and which are too far in to be frequented by day hunters. Mature Adirondack bucks like to travel and bed high, and they often make their scrapes and rub lines on knobs and other high spots. Hiking ridgelines makes finding pockets of buck activity easier, and points and saddles create natural funnels if you prefer sitting over still-hunting or tracking.

Good areas to prospect include all of the park’s larger wilderness areas. Among these are the West Canada Lake, Silver Lake, and Siamese Ponds wildernesses in the southern Adirondacks, each of which covers more than 100,000 acres. Canoe routes in the Five Ponds Wilderness in the western Adirondacks let you paddle your way in. The 193,000-acre High Peaks Wilderness in the eastern Adirondacks offers the most way-back country and the greatest challenge in terms of rugged terrain and low deer densities. It also produced my best Adirondack buck.

When to go is a matter of preference. I like the first week of November. Overnight lows are still bearable; whitetails can be found feeding on beechnuts and acorns (on south-facing slopes, primarily in the southern Adirondacks); and most important, the pre-rut has bucks cruising for does.

Camping is permitted at designated sites on water bodies and anywhere that’s at least 150 feet from a pond or stream. The region’s many lean-tos can eliminate the need for packing in a tent, but we avoid them because they’re magnets for gnawing critters, including bears.

Come prepared to get your game out. The drags can be very long, and although sleds and carts can help you do the job, quartering and packing your whitetail out is sometimes the only practical solution.

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Source: http://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/deer-hunting/finding-deer-hunt/2013/10/whitetail-empire

Hunters Specialties Shotgun Shell Belt

Hunters Specialties Shotgun Shell Belt

Shotgun shell belt. Adjustable belt goes around your waist for easy access to shells. Holds 25 shotgun shells.

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Giant 200-Inch Buck Stood There For a Third Shot

Matt Serwa Buck

Matt Serwa’s giant Wisconsin buck scored 201-plus inches and is one of the biggest killed so far this season.

When Matt Serwa’s second arrow missed the giant whitetail, he was crushed because Lady Luck doesn’t typically offer a third chance on a mature megabuck like this one.

Lady Luck must have been snoozing or in a highly gracious mood, because Serwa got a third opportunity. He made the most of it.

The longtime central Wisconsin bowhunter arrowed one of the biggest bucks of the season so far, and on the state’s opening day of bow season. This geniune gagger whitetail sports more than 201 inches on a nontypical frame, with a double brow tine on one side and third brow sticking up under those along with other kickers and stickers.

Be sure to check it out today on Deer Talk Now at 12 p.m. Central for all the details! Deer Talk Now is presented by Mathews, Carbon Express and ICOtec. Visit our archives to watch shows anytime, too!

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DeerDeerHunting/~3/qLz4d3e3sCw/giant-200-inch-buck-stood-there-for-a-third-shot

Break-Out Buck Activity Is Only Days Away

We’ve all heard bucks grunt, and some of those grunts are pretty loud. But very few hunters have heard the kind of grunting that my hunting buddy Billy Jerowski heard yesterday afternoon. As he tells it, several mature does and their fawns had moved past his stand to feed in a nearby alfalfa field. Not long after, three young bucks appeared, working the same trails. “And then a mature buck—probably a 140-class 9-point—showed up,” says Jerowski. “He was back in the brush so I couldn’t see him well, but he was making plenty of racket, like he wanted the other bucks to know he was there.”

And then the grunting started. Not just the abbreviated “urp” most of us are accustomed to hearing. “This was a loud, sustained grunt that lasted for several seconds, and as soon as one ended, he’d go right into another one,” Jerowski says. “Every once in awhile he’d throw in a ‘roar’ like you hear guys talking about sometimes. But mostly it was just repeated grunting. After a few grunts like this I glanced at my watch, because I wanted to get an idea of how long he was doing it. A full twenty minutes later it was still going on. The younger bucks were really nervous, and when I looked down at the field, all the does had left. They were obviously freaked out.”

I’ve heard some long, loud grunting in my 40-plus years in the deer woods, but nothing to match what Jerowski heard yesterday. I contacted several friends—all veteran bowhunters with a lot of time in the timber—to relate this story. Only two of them said they’d had a similar experience, and both noted that their super-grunting session was similar to Jerowski’s; a mature buck in the presence of younger bucks and does. Most interpreted the aggressive, long grunts of the bigger bucks as a warning to the younger ones. But my friend Sam Collora, the veteran Iowa bowhunter, has also heard this among the captive whitetails he raises to produce his line of deer urine. Sam feels this vocalization is a combination of dominance-assertion and frustration with an urgency to breed.

Either way, it’s obvious that whitetail bucks are ready for the show to start in our region. Overall, the reports I’m getting from guides and hunters across the Midwest tell of good-to-excellent buck sign, but fairly slow daytime action. One fine 13-point buck was shot near my home a couple of days ago, and the buck had several tines broken from fighting. Tension is building and days ahead should produce some break-out pre-breeding action. So keep at it, and don’t forget your calls and rattling horns.

Source: http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/north-central-rut-report/2013/10/break-out-buck-activity-only-days-away

Allen Company Grizzly Three Blade Broadheads, 125 Grain

Allen Company Grizzly Three Blade Broadheads, 125 Grain

27/1000 thick stainless steel blades. Razor sharp. Hardened tip cutting diameter 1-3/16″.

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B&C Ranks Top Trophy Big-Game States: Wisconsin Tops the List

Home to the Packers, the Badgers, and more beer and cheese than is healthy for anyone, Wisconsin is  also cementing its reputation as Trophy Central in the Boone & Crockett record books. B&C’s latest big-game awards book recognizes trophies taken across North America from 2010 to 2012, and Wisconsin leads all destinations with 412 trophy animals listed for the period. Second place goes to Alaska, with 221 entries.

This is fascinating stuff for whitetail hunters, largely because those Wisconsin entries are comprised of only two big-game species; deer and black bear. The next five states/provinces, in order, are Alaska, British Columbia, Wyoming, and Colorado, all home to multiple species of big game. Wisconsin’s closest competition in the whitetail arena is Ohio (6th place, 144 entries) and Kentucky (7th place, 139 entries).

Hurteau and I have been tracking top B&C states for several years in our annual “Booner Awards,” and while Wisconsin hasn’t been the top destination every year, it’s always in the running. And, even as a Wisconsin native who has hunted the state for 40-plus seasons, I’m continually amazed by the Badger State’s continued run in the record books. Sure, Wisconsin has a lot of deer and some tremendous habitat, but there are also a lot of hunters and tremendous pressure. In my mind, that equates to one certainty; those hunters are increasingly picky about what they shoot.

Are there places that have better top-end trophies? Absolutlely. Are your odds of killing a Booner whitetail greater in, say, Iowa or Saskatchewan or Ohio? Probably. But when it comes to sheer numbers of high-end bucks in a state with a long, rich, deer hunting tradition, it’s tough to beat Wisconsin. Oh, and the beer and cheese curds are pretty good, too.  

Source: http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/whitetail-365/2013/10/bc-ranks-top-trophy-big-game-states-wisconsin-tops-list