December 16th, 2011 — Hunting
People who don’t hunt or fish or participate in any outdoor sports often like to make fun of things like fishing programs or a hunting DVD. They can’t understand why anyone would want to watch something like someone else fishing or hunting. And while it’s true that many fishing and hunting videos aren’t action-packed, many hunters love them. Even if 20 minutes is spent just listening to the fishermen or the hunter talk about what they’re doing, the observant hunter is soaking up what they’re saying and figuring out how to put it to use on his own terms.
If you enjoy hunting and have never watched a hunting DVD, you’re really missing out on an educational experience. You can find a hunting DVD for every type of game from bison and bear to ducks and quail. Not only do these DVDs let you see beautiful outdoor areas that you might not be able to visit in person, you get the commentary from the experienced sportsmen who are making the DVDs.
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Listening to them talk about what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, how they planned it and what they expect can be a very educational especially for someone new to hunting. If guided hunts aren’t for you and you don’t have any close friends that you can regularly go hunting with, a hunting DVD can really fill in that gap of knowledge and experience. Just don’t make the mistake of thinking that since you’ve watched one of those DVDs that you actually have that experience. Be sure and don’t become overconfident, especially since you’re using a weapon.
If you do have friends that you hunt with or you’re not against the idea of a guided hunt, you can still really enjoy a hunting DVD. Some are designed just to show you a special hunt where they’d bagged a trophy winning animal or made an impressive kill. Other hunting DVDs are set up in a certain way to convey specific information.
You might find a white tailed deer hunting DVD that gives you several specific pointers about how to have your first white tailed deer hunt. Another deer hunting DVD may simply be scenes from several of the sportsman’s most impressive hunting trips. Duck hunting DVDs may demonstrate the best calls for certain types of ducks or how to locate a spot and build a blind. Other DVDs may take you on a guided hunt and help to advertise a specific hunting lodge or line of hunting products and gear.
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Regardless of the focus of the hunting DVD, you can mine it for the information that you really want. Just watching the sportsman’s technique, whether they’re shooting or using a compound bow, can give you a point of reference to compare your own techniques you. And even if you doubt whether or not you’ll get anything educational from the DVD, you still may enjoy following along with the professional hunter and just seeing a different style and technique than your own.
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Originally posted 2010-04-13 09:14:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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November 19th, 2011 — Big, Bison, Hunting
Alaskan bison hunting is just one of the big game hunting sports in the state. Bison are huge animals that stand about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh over a ton each. Bison are easily recognizable because of their larger and heavier front quarters and their smaller hindquarters. Most people are only familiar with seeing a dark brown bison. The dark brown coat is their winter coat. It lightens up toward spring. Bison also have huge curving horns that point upward.
Bison have an excellent sense of smell that allows them to survive the winter as long as they are healthy and they do get in a good area with food beneath the frozen snow. They are able to smell food even under inches of snow. Then they use their large head and upper body to shove the snow away from the food to get to it. Since they can smell so clearly through the snow, catching the scent of a hunter isn’t much of a challenge.
When you’re bison hunting you need to be sure that you’re not carrying a strong set. Wash in unscented soap, don’t wear cologne or aftershave or even heavily scented deodorant, and make sure your clothes don’t carry a scent from detergent or fabric softener. Try to avoid getting very sweaty in your clothes and stay away from things like campfires so you don’t absorb the smell of the smoke and cooking food. Bison are very difficult to stalk as you need to do a successful hunt so give yourself a better chance of success by eliminating your scent. Bison are also one of the more difficult animals to actually bring down. They are the hardest one in Alaska, at least. Their sheer size makes it difficult to kill one of these animals.
Hunting is allowed to control the population. Bison aren’t native to Alaska but were brought there instead in 1928 and quickly multiplied. Without hunting, experts believe that they would take over the areas where they live and start to do damage to the ecosystem. Bison hunting keeps that from happening.
Those who have problems with Alaskan bison hunting say that nature can take care of itself. But since bison are an introduced species and they have no natural predators to thin the herds, hunting bison is considered a necessity. Bison may look large and lumbering out on the plain but they’re actually very aggressive when they feel threatened. The only predators that have any hope of taking down the bison are wolves and bears and then they can only generally take down the young. Neither of these predatory animals will attack an adult bison because of the large horns and the size.
Some bison live in protected areas because the fear is that hunting will thin them too much as it has done in the United States. The settlers’ bison hunting actually thinned them down so much that their survival in the United States has been questioned. But Alaskan bison hunting is how the population is kept under control and something hunters are welcome to do in the frozen north.
Photo Credits: Alan Vernon.
Originally posted 2010-03-24 03:12:25. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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November 11th, 2011 — Hunting
Buck - This is the name for a male deer. The way that you can tell a male apart from female deer is by the antlers that are atop its head for a period of seven months. Other than this, male and female deer are quite similar in appearance, especially during the remaining five months out of the year when the male is not actively growing his antlers.
Buck Rub - This is the action of a male deer lowering his head so that he can scrape his antlers along a tree. There are two reasons why he may do this, to polish and clear away any velvet, and to prepare for competition during the breeding season.
Buffalo Chips - This is a more politically correct way to refer to droppings from a bison.
Bugle – This is a name for the call that elks make during the period of rut so that they can interest females.
Bull - This is the name that is used to describe male elk.
Bulldog – This is a type of mark that is thrown while a hunting dog is returning from a retrieve. This is also referred to as a diversion. The dog cannot switch birds during this process, which means that he must not drop his first bird that he picked up when becoming distracted by the diversion bird.
Bumper – This is an item that is made out of canvas or plastic and that is typically between 2 inches and 3 inches in diameter. Its purpose is to train a hunting dog in place of a real bird. Bumpers are available to hunters in a wide variety of different types of colors. You can find orange, white, black and half black and white bumpers for example. The color that you choose should be based on the current weather as well as what color is going to be most visible for your hunting dog on that particular day. The orange style of bumpers is typically used for the purpose of blinds. While birds tend to be preferable both for dogs and for humans, the supply can be really limited, and so if you are looking for a viable training alternative, bumpers are a good way to go.
Burn - This is terminology that is used in order to describe correction via e-collar that is continuous, rather than what is known as a Nick, which is a type of momentary or temporary correction. This method of correction is used in order to correct known commands that the dog is intentionally choosing to disregard. This method of correction does not require inflicting any kind of physical harm to the dog in order to get the point across, however.
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Originally posted 2009-11-15 03:43:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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