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An Outdoorsmen's Tale - A Season for Reason

Karl Seckinger posted on October 28, 2006 :: 3017 Views :: 0 Comments ::

An Outdoorsmen's Tale - A Season for Reason

This is the time of year we, as outdoors people, lose some members. All the headlines, or radio broadcasts will air or print the hunting fatalities and deer hunter heart attacks, tree stand tip over casualties and drowning duck hunters to mention just a few...

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Posted in: Outdoors Safety

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My Throat is Layered up with Ducks

Karl Seckinger posted on October 28, 2006 :: 3708 Views :: 0 Comments ::

I can’t get the wind to my back, so a long line of decoys angles towards shore like a funnel. What I call the “baby duck” is flying somewhere around mock two coming into line and dropping. The number four previously installed in the upper tube woompfs and I...

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Posted in: Hunting - Waterfowl

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Mapping 101 - Part III - The Plot Thickens

Karl Seckinger posted on October 25, 2006 :: 8016 Views :: 0 Comments ::

Mapping 101 - Part III - The Plot Thickens

Now the PLOT thickens. With a very wide brush stroke I covered a map page and basic compass functions. Here comes the big picture. Acquiring a topo map of a perspective area. For an initial choice scan some online topo maps at on-line map sources. There are many...

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Posted in: Camping 101, Hunting - General, Hiking & Backpacking, Camping 201

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A Canoeing Tale - Long liners vs Part-Tmers

Karl Seckinger posted on October 23, 2006 :: 2046 Views :: 0 Comments ::

A Canoeing Tale - Long liners vs Part-Tmers

I have a very good canoeing buddy. I trap and he traps, we both hunt and fish but the only thing we end up doing together most years is canoeing. I might add these are not cute little paddle around the quiet lakeshore canoe trips...

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Posted in: Tales from the Woods

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How to Trap a Kid

Karl Seckinger posted on October 20, 2006 :: 2962 Views :: 0 Comments ::

You know what I want for Christmas? I want a nine year old boy. Do not bother wrapping or putting in a box, I want the no batteries required, I want the no assembly required. I want a nine year old full of energy and questions boy...

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Posted in: Learn How to Hunt

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Mind Over Why it Matters

Karl Seckinger posted on October 09, 2006 :: 2774 Views :: 0 Comments ::

My hands are in the kitchen sink, so are a few memories, I grab a thawing pheasant. I start with real images of my pheasant pen behind my pole shed where I raise them, and then I flip through mental crib notes on past hunting trips...

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Posted in: Hunting - Upland Birds

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Compass 360 - Go Pick Some More Apples

Karl Seckinger posted on October 09, 2006 :: 5081 Views :: 0 Comments ::

You have the needle on the compass floating north. In the mapping and compass trade there are three north’s. The first is TRUE north. Like the north pole where Santa lives. If you ran a direct line through the exact center of the earth on a north-south axis you would have true north...

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Posted in: Camping 101, Hunting - General, Outdoors Safety

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Mapping 101

Karl Seckinger posted on October 04, 2006 :: 7262 Views :: 2 Comments ::

If you view a topo map like a SOLVED jig saw puzzle, and a treasure hunt, you like maps, like I like maps. Everything is right in front of you, but you got to go get it...

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Posted in: Camping 101, Hunting - General, Outdoors Safety

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