Nick Simonson
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Shot suggestions and choke points (opens the original)
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The early season flush of a sharptailed grouse - or better yet a nice group of them -- can provide an exhilarating rush to kick start fall in the field. As autumn progresses, however, the remaining birds learn fast, and once the sentry sharpie takes to the air at a distance, it's likely that the remaining members of the resident flock follow suit, providing a long-distance poke at best. For all upland birds, having the right combination of shot size and choke tubes in a gun can help increase suc
Prep for your field dog this fall (opens the original)
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While soaking up the last rays of the summer sun on the cabin deck and watching the boat of four anglers explore the breakline just out from the dock, that familiar loud "slurp, slurp, slurp," of my old lab drinking water broke the afternoon silence. Of course it wasn't from the elevated, shiny bowls filled with tap water next to the door. Rather, his hydration source was the roughly half inch bottom of a beach toy basket that had accumulated slightly off-colored water from whenever the last rai
Miles to go (opens the original)
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The uptick on my miles walked and ran in my fitness tracker app spikes every May. Right around Memorial Day weekend, the number of minutes for exercise jumps accordingly too and stays high straight through the balance of summer and into fall. While lamenting the purchase of a new pair of running shoes with the salesman at the local sporting goods store last week after having bought some just five weeks earlier, and how these recent sets seem to just be less durable than those from years past; I
A certain futures market (opens the original)
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Your opener is coming up soon. I don't care if you're a waterfowler, a pheasant hunter or have that coveted firearms deer tag for this autumn, opening day is approaching faster than a set of mallards with cupped wings descending on your decoy setup. Which is why now is the time to prepare for that day, and all the days that come after it in your season (or, more likely, seasons) this autumn, and lock in your investment in lead. Because just by looking at the past, I can predict the future you'll
Water and more for dove success (opens the original)
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The transition of summer into fall brings with it the first upland season of the year with mourning dove hunting beginning on Sept. 1. While I can recall endlessly entertaining afternoons walking shelterbelts to flush these fast-flying birds from their daytime roosts, the most memorable hunts came from around favorite water holes marked on my GPS and in memory which my friends and I would wind our way to after work down dusty gravel roads. At our destinations we'd set up a spread of foam decoys,
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