• Researching Extraordinary Buck Deer

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    Editor’s Note: To take an extraordinary buck with the characteristics of a legend, most veteran hunters start their research not in the woods but on the front porches of clubhouses or around the potbellied stoves of the local general stores, close to where the legend roams. These hunters also use trail cameras and

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  • Learning the Characteristics of Extraordinary Buck Deer

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    Old Scarface was the ugliest deer that ever had come through my taxidermy shop years ago. The animal was a mass of jagged scars, scrapes and head wounds. Usually when a deer was badly scarred, we would cut the scars out and resew the hide. But so many places on this deer were missing hair …

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  • How to Catch Cold Weather Crappie on the Worst Crappie Lake in America at the Worst Time of the Year

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    Editor’s Note: If you poll crappie fishermen in the State of Alabama and in many areas of the South, they’ll tell you the worst lake for catching crappie on the Tennessee River in north Alabama may be Wilson Lake. “Wilson is probably one of the best smallmouth bass lakes in America, but because of its …

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  • How to Catch Cold Water Crappie in January with Ohio’s Bob Jones

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    Editor’s Note: Bob Jones from Piqua, Ohio, fishes the competitive crappie-fishing circuits and is as addicted to crappie fishing as a bird dog is to finding quail. Unlike most crappie fishermen who sit next to the fire during the winter months, Jones is out trying to find papermouths, even in bad, cold weather. In

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  • What Five More Mistakes Do Wintertime Crappie Fishermen Make with Whitey Outlaw

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    Editor’s Note:  Santa Claus has come down the chimney, and we’ve launched a new year.  Most crappie fishermen have their poles rolled-up and stored under the porch, but not Whitey Outlaw of Gadsden, South Carolina. He fishes for crappie year-round and fishes on both crappie circuits, Crappie USA

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