Flinch-Free Firing – Rifle Shooting Technique

Our Outdoors
Nick Simonson
An old neighbor of mine who was just as good at busting sporting clays on the skeet range as he was at busting my chops regarding my tales of fishing and hunting misadventure, asked me what my problem was when he read I didn’t get a deer on opening weekend a few years [...]

Taking Care of Your Deer After Harvest

By Doug Leier
North Dakota’s recent bounty of white-tailed deer means that more hunters in more places have had a chance to put a deer or two or three in the freezer.
That’s quite a change from a few short decades ago when deer weren’t nearly as plentiful and many hunters made doe licenses their first choice [...]

Making Your Own Deer Hunting Rattlers

Our Outdoors
Nick Simonson

Do you hear that tick-tick-ticking? It’s either the second hand of the hall clock marking off the moments until deer seasons open up around the region or it’s the beginning of field combat between this year’s herd of whitetail bucks in an attempt to establish dominance.
From Sunday morning hunting shows to a seat [...]

Choosing a Scope

By Richard Burt
The most important piece of equipment you will buy for big game hunting in the open plains of North Dakota is a scope for your rifle. I believe that the scope makes the gun, and if you have a budget and have to choose between an inexpensive Weatherby Vanguard with a nice Swarovski [...]

Venison Recipes Come in All Forms

By Doug Leier
When it comes to fish and wild game cooking, Uncle Lynn is the beginning and the end, though you may have to take this with a grain … err, dash of salt and pinch of pepper. His wild game cooking philosophy permeates from the mantra of “don’t hide the flavor, work with it [...]

Bow Tuning 101

By Andrew Gegelman
For most bow hunters, tuning their bow means being able to hit what they are aiming at. And for others they just hope their bow will become tuned by itself. But they are wrong. Tuning your bow now might mean the difference between trophy and tragedy.
First things first, you should not attempt to [...]

Fast & Easy Pheasant Cleaning Tips

By Gary Simonson

This is a pheasant cleaning tip for anyone out there looking to get the most out of the birds they harvest. Give it a try and post up the results in the recipe forum!
Completely skin the bird leaving on the head. Do not gut. Please note these photos were taken at home, if [...]

Making Your Own Ecaller

By Chris Hustad
It’s hard to believe that another spring season is around the corner. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was preparing for my first spring season, an exciting opportunity to persue my favorite gamebird, the snow goose. Like all types of outdoor activities, the spring season has evolved with a boatload of [...]

Flinch-Free Firing – Rifle Shooting Technique

Our Outdoors
Nick Simonson
An old neighbor of mine who was just as good at busting sporting clays on the skeet range as he was at busting my chops regarding my tales of fishing and hunting misadventure, asked me what my problem was when he read I didn’t get a deer on opening weekend a few years [...]

Fast & Easy Wild Game Bird Cleaning Tips

By Chris Hustad

This type of bird cleaning is best used for ducks, snow geese, lessor Canada geese, and upland game. The process of breasting the bird and packaging takes about 3-4 minutes/bird. It’s a great way to do large numbers at a time. I learned this years back and have been using it ever [...]

Hunting Starts with Google Maps

Our Outdoors
Nick Simonson

 
One winter night, as a young boy, I sat on the couch with my dad watching college hockey. I must have been about seven- or eight-years-old at the time. During the highlights of the first intermission, my dad turned and said to me “would you like to draw a map with me?”
A sample [...]

How Do You Get a Job as Game Warden?

By Doug Leier
One of the more common questions asked of any Game and Fish employee, whether it’s over the phone, through friends, via e-mail, or at the grocery store, is: “How do you get a job as a game warden.”
I get variations of this comment frequently when the topic of my occupation comes up in [...]

Turkey Recipe List

Here’s some favorite turkey recipes of ours.
Turkey Recipe Ingredients:

9 to 13-lb Turkey*
½ cup butter, melted
Old-Fashioned Dressing,
½ cup butter
3 cups finely chopped celery
¾ cup finely chopped parsley
1 cup finely chopped onion
1 tbls. salt
1 tbls. poultry seasoning
1 ts. paprika
½ ts. pepper
1 egg, slightly beaten
12 cups fine white-bread crumbs

 
Preheat oven to 325°F. Remove giblets from turkey and set [...]