Blog Profile / The Outdoor Smorgasbord
| URL : | http://skinnymoose.com/outdoorsmorgasbord | |
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| Filed Under: | Hobbies / Hunting | |
| Posts on Regator: | 78 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.5 | |
| Archived Since: | April 28, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Product Review: Burt Coyote Lumenok
Time for a voluntary product review on an item I chose to use this fall because of my new interest in videotaping my hunts. Retail Price: $24.99 (3 pack) Good: The product is extremely easy to install and has such a large selection to fit such a wide array of manufactured arrows you can easily [...]
Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting
Just returned from Oklahoma City where I attended my 4th Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting in the last 5 years – hence the slack in blogging activity. It was a great meeting where I presented some research on sex ratios and was able to renew some old friendships and solidify some contacts in the academic/professional [...]
Auburn Tigers – Toomer’s Corner Oaks
Well, I won’t claim to be as vested as someone who has cheered for the AU Tigers for their whole life, but I have the perspective of being a past UNC-Duke rivalry participant and as crazy as that is…it ain’t nothing compared to this. I’m sure you all have heard the news stories about the [...]
Product Review: Nikon Rangefinder – Archer’s Choice
Nikon sent me another product to test this fall and I feel that I did a much better job taking this item into real field situations and putting the product through the proverbial “ringer”. Product Name: Archer’s Choice w/ APG Camo Case by Nikon Retail Price: $279.95 Features: Angle compensator to 89 degrees vertical 6X [...]
1/24/2011 – Alabama Deer Hunt
With exactly a week to go in the Alabama deer season, I decided to switch up my strategy and hunt an evening trying to catch a buck following does onto a food plot. After sitting in the tree for about an hour, I heard deer walking in the creek behind me and saw this yearling [...]
One More Tag…
With one more Alabama buck tag in my pocket, it was time to single out a solid management 8 pointer to close out the season. I had not quite 10 days to punch the tag, but with bucks coming to the call I figured I would at least get a chance. The very next day, [...]
Product Review: Nikon TurkeyPro BTR
I occasionally get the opportunity to review some great products that are sent to me by sponsors of the Skinny Moose (Outside Hub) Network. Other times my product reviews are just great products that I use and think everybody else should be aware of. This is a case of the former. Specifications: Nikon TurkeyPro BTR [...]
1/21 A.M. Deer Hunt
This is going to be a long post, but trust me…well worth it. Dad and I spent all night Thursday debating where to go for his last morning sit with me on Friday before he had to travel back to North Carolina. I finally chose a huge red oak that is perched on top of [...]
1/20 A.M. Deer Hunt
With overcast skies, cold temperatures, and a wind out of the northeast, I decided to try a spot where I arrowed the G2 Midget Buck from last year. I set up near a 30 yard wide thicket of cane on the side of a mature loblolly pine ridge and waited for daylight. It didn’t take [...]
The Bumbling Bushman
The writer behind the blog The Bumbling Bushman posted a few days ago on a recent post about my ongoing hunting season. I took a minute to visit his blog and loved what I read. I think you’ll enjoy his most recent posts about a successful Florida hog hunt. I’ve added his blog to the [...]
1/11 P.M. Alabama Deer Hunt
Headed to a food plot that I haven’t hunted this entire hunting season. My buddy Clint was in the tree manning the video camera because he had tagged a nice 8 point earlier in the week. It was a slow start to the evening with nothing moving until around 4:30 p.m. His climber was about [...]
1/3-1/4 Alabama Hunt
I pulled out the rattling horns for the first time this hunting season on the morning of January 3rd. I knew it was a stretch to call in anything mature, but I figured it was worth a crack. Not even 5 minutes after my first sequence, this yearling 7 point came in to investigate. Sort [...]
12/28 P.M. Hunt
Hunted the same stand where I shot the Bionic Buck on the evening of December 28th. Right at 4:00, I heard deer crashing around in the brush to the north of the food plot and I could barely make out a couple does being harassed by a spike and a much nicer buck that I [...]
North Carolina Deer Drive Success!
Over my wife and I’s 4 day trip to North Carolina for Christmas, dad was wanting some late season help filling up the freezer so I headed for a tripod we set up in the middle of a 1 year old clear cut earlier in the year. I sat there for a solid hour glassing [...]
…and my first buck of the season!
…but more on that later. Hunting season is heating up in the Deep South!
Rifle Season in Kansas…
I’m not going to make it back out to Kansas this winter to be able to attempt and fill my muzzleloader tag during rifle season, but that’s no reason you can’t enjoy some updates from my favorite corner of the Midwest. Check out the Daily Limit blog and follow along as one of my blogging [...]
Alabama River 11/12 A.M. Hunt
After that doe refused to come within range, I looked over my left shoulder to see a coyote trotting through the green field. I didn’t have much time to process things like I should have and misjudged the yardage on him. He never came out of his slow gait and I watched as my newly [...]
11/11 P.M. Deer Hunt
I was invited by a friend to hunt his acreage on the banks of the Alabama River outside of Camden, Alabama in a little town called Coy. I arrived to the camp house late in the afternoon and had to hustle my gear together so we could a sit in before dark. We drove to [...]
NC Hunt 11/6 A.M.
When I woke up Saturday morning there was a steady drizzle so the cameras stayed indoors for my morning hunt. Instead of climbing up a tree, I sneaked down the side of a fresh cut-over and sat between it and 2 older cut-overs right on a creek surrounded by mature hardwoods. I was feeling really [...]
11/5 A.M. Hunt – NC Muzzleloading Season
I certainly thought it was going to be a great morning for deer movement, but I was totally wrong. I hunted until almost 11 o’clock and didn’t see the first deer hair all morning. For some reason, the deer aren’t using this property like they have in the past and I wonder if it’s not [...]