http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog Online Hunting Magazine Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:46:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scott Ellis, a contributing writer for U.S. Hunting Today and Skinny Moose Media, will be participating in the 2008 Florida National Wild Turkey Federation Turkey Calling Championships in Orlando, Florida next month. Scott is a 5-time winner of turkey calling events in Florida and will be joining others for this ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/27/florida-nwtf-turkey-calling-championship/ By Patrick Murphy of Rocky Mount, NC 6am finds me on schedule to my first listening location. The air is cool and sharp, there's no wind. The thick smoke from my breath hovers around my head as I stop to listen. It seems thick enough to convince me it's hampering my ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/20/early-morning-gobblers/ By: Scott Ellis 2005,2006,2007 Florida State Turkey Calling Champion 2004, 2007 Florida State Gobbling Champion Quaker Boy Game Calls Pro Staff One of the most asked questions about hunting the wild turkey is “when do I call and how often?” I feel that there is an art to calling turkeys. It’s all based on ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/21/calling-the-wild-turkey%e2%80%a6%e2%80%a6when-and-how-often/ What some are calling an ambiguous loophole in an Indiana state law, trappers who are taking wild coyotes outside of the prescribed coyote trapping season, are keeping them alive and selling them to dog trainers and using them to collect urine for use by trappers. The Indiana Department of Natural ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/indiana-dnr-wants-to-prevent-coyotes-from-being-sold/ We are at a point where it would be safe to say that this year's outbreak of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) is quite widespread. Here's a list of states that have confirmed cases of the virus that is carried to deer by biting midges or no-see-ums: Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/ehd-a-bit-ho-hum-in-the-deep-south/ A new mentoring program signed into law in Oklahoma by Gov. Brad Henry provides for young hunters under the age of 16 to hunt small game without first taking the required hunter safety class, providing that hunter is with a licensed hunter over the age of 21. The same law allows ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/oklahoma-eases-age-restrictions-required-hunter-safety/ There's an enthusiastic group that has formed a brand new organization called the Appalachian Houndsmen Association. Even though they aspire to eventually become a nationwide entity, their focus right now is on Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. The club's motto pretty much tells what's on their mind. Preserving the ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/appalachian-houndsmen-association/ By Robert Lane Bob Lane is a Licensed Master Maine Guide and photographer. He has also guided Caribou Hunters and Fishermen on float trips in Southwest Alaska. Deer season in Maine is a longstanding tradition marked by cold, frosty mornings, treks through the pre-dawn darkness to a coveted tree stand, a swamp’s ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/take-a-kid-hunting/ by A. Sayward Lamb For several years I have been hearing from several friends and acquaintances, telling me of sightings of the very elusive mountain lions which they have seen personally, or have been told of sightings by their friends. My earliest recollections of sightings were back in the mid-nineteen fifties, ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/recap-of-mt-lions-in-southwestern-maine/ By Richard L. Julian The closest I’d come to killing a bear in self-defense happened in 1995. I was deer hunting in Maine. A storm was scheduled to come in that afternoon so we were thinking that the deer might already be in some thick stuff. ... http://southcarolinahuntingtoday.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/27/my-deer-season-bonus/