http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog Online Hunting Magazine Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:23:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en by Mac Moad Tanner Colten Moad, 5 years old, is one of the coolest kids I know. The youngest of 4 children of mine, Tanner never stops moving. Before gun season in central eastern Oklahoma, the traditional bow season usually takes priority. I had taken the first week of bow season off ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/15/starting-out-young/ Mac The Dog Mac enjoys duck hunting in the Midwest. Send Pictures to: Todd Krater U.S. Hunting Today Managing Editor todd@ushuntingtoday.com Note: If you want a picture posted and do not have a digital copy I would be willing to scan it for you.  Please contact me for details. US Hunting Today reserves the right to refuse any ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/21/picture-this-2/ By Mac Moad The first week of October was finally here.  The first three days were spent in my favorite stand watching 3 raccoons in which I had named Larry, Curly, and Moe.  The mother raccoon was slightly bigger than the two younger ones, and seemed curious to every movement surrounding ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/08/bow-hunting-grand-slam-2007/ by Tom Remington This is a warning to outdoor users about a potentially deadly biological event that could result from one’s curiosity to poke at and kick through scat from wolves, coyotes and foxes. Of course not everyone knowingly does this but many hunters, trappers and simply the curious, ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/14/a-warning-to-outdoor-users-about-echinococcus-from-worms/ Whether hunting public or privateland, the fundamentals of calling elk remain the same. By Michael Waddell We heard the bull bugle at first light and snuck into his core area. When I hit a lick on my bugle, the bull simply came unglued and stormed our position like a tank, crashing ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/calling-elk-bow-close/ With all the great stories, equipment, adventures and people out there I thought it would be great to get some pictures. If you have any pictures from a hunt, your gear or best of all you geared up that would be great. If you send in pictures I will post ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/18/picture-this/ Republished with permission by George Dovel, author. In the early 1980s the 197-page unpublished research report, “Wolves of Central Idaho,” surfaced. In it, co-authors Timm Kaminski and Jerome Hansen estimated that elk and deer populations in six of the nine national forests in the proposed Central Idaho Wolf Recovery Area ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/14/new-revelations-about-reintroduced-wolves/ (Republished by permission) Opinion by George Dovel George Dovel is Editor and Publisher of The Outdoorsman. In 2003, North America’s foremost wildlife scientist, Dr. Valerius Geist, made the following observations: “The miracle of North American conservation is that it is basically a blue-collar system, grounded in the political and financial support and the active ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/31/the-peasant-wars/ Yesterday I posted a rebuttal to a Newsweek article that supported the theory that trophy hunting was creating "weak and scrawny" game animals. The Newsweek article used information from a study done on big horn sheep on Ram Mountain in Alberta, Canada, that made the claim by some involved in ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/14/does-trophy-hunting-spoil-the-gene-pool/ Reprinted by permission from the author. Valerius Geist, Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science, The University of Calgary Calgary, Canada. We pay close attention to large predators. We do so because we evolved as prey. It was our ancient fate to be killed and eaten, and our primary goal to escape such. Our instincts ... http://coloradohuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/12/31/large-predators-them-and-us/