In sports if a team is “skunked” it usually means they failed to score or their athletic performance generally “stunk up the place.” When it’s said you have “a skunk in your mouth,” then buddy…you have a noticeable case of bad breath. In the drinking world if you have some “skunky” beer it usually means [...]
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It was 30 years ago when I first took firearms safety as a 12-year old. Notice how I mentioned I FIRST took firearms safety. That’s right…during the years since I first stepped into a firearms safety class as a youth, I have voluntarily refreshed the class as recently as 12 years ago as an adult. [...]
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Okay, I’ll admit it…I’m one of those gadget guys. As soon as I see some slick new device promising to make a sportsman’s life a bit easier, more fun, or even more successful I will usually be among the first to add it to my stable of toys. Call it human nature if you will, [...]
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Back in the days of my youth wood ticks were nothing more than a nuisance of spring and early summer…but somewhere along the way as I got older things seemed to get a whole lot more complicated with these little buggers. Indeed, the common wood tick is becoming a 21st Century menace of dangerous proportions [...]
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Okay, admit it…a year or so back you purchased one of those handy GPS (global positioning system) hand-held receivers because it was either on sale or your friends had one…so you made the purchase. Am I right? I know I sure did…when used properly they are one of the handiest little devices a sportsman can [...]
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This week the 30th Anniversary Edition of the In-Fisherman Magazine goes on sale at newsstands around the country…but why is this milestone of any importance to sportsmen? Quite frankly, it was the foresight of brothers Lindner who helped to revolutionize the process and the science behind the way many of us go fishing.As the fishing [...]
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Last night I was driving home late when all of a sudden a deer jumped out in front of the small compact car I happened to be navigating. Instinctively, I locked the brakes and quickly steered left…and then slowly steered back right again to just barely avoid missing the hind hooves as the deer ran [...]
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This morning as I was driving to work I happened to notice a farm field that was huge by local standards…my guess is it was at least 200 acres in size. A single field…one continuous patch of black dirt. Oh sure, I had driven by this same field hundreds of time before…but this time I [...]
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To some it might seem like a never-ending political tug-of-war…and that might be one of the best analogies to describe the Minnesota Personal Protection Act of 2003. It has gone from a highly controversial law first enacted in 2003…to a law challenged and then found unconstitutional by two levels of the Minnesota court system. Today, [...]
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Yesterday I lamented about how the cold, wet weather affected the comfort of fishermen over the weekend for the Minnesota Fishing Opener. But this cold, wet stretch of spring might be affecting more than just the state’s anglers. In fact, untimely spring weather can have a ripple effect that touches many aspects of the outdoors [...]
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