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Catch and Release Kill or Save Striped Bass?

in the 1970s, pollution, overfishing and habitat loss nearly annihilated the nation’s striped bass population. Now, scientists conducting studies in Maryland, North Carolina and Massachusetts claim that catch-and-release fishing—long considered a means of helping to sustain fish populations—may be killing, not sustaining, stripers.

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I see a lot of does without fawns; did the coyotes kill them?

Not all antlerless deer will have a fawn or fawns when you observe them in the hunting season. Most of the females 2.5 yrs and older will have fawns, but very few yearling females will have fawns (typically less than 15% will breed as fawns: puberty is related to their weight). Again, regardless of predators, only about half of the antlerless deer seen can even have fawns.

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your quest to kill a turkey with a bow

Whether you’re just getting started in your quest to kill a turkey with a bow, or have been doing it for years, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more challenging critter to shoot than the wild turkey. A turkey’s vitals are tiny. Making matters worse, the super-small vitals are hidden by all the feathers. And the vitals seemingly shift depending on whether or not the bird is strutting. Like I said, they can be a very deceiving target. Here’s a...